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What the Dickens

OF ALL THE STRANGE places SFX has been in pursuit of a story, summer at the Dancing On Ice studios probably takes the biscuit. Thankfully it’s another frosty production that brings us out to Bovingdon Airfields – also a location for Rogue One and Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – but one we’re no stranger to.

Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol has had many lives since first being published on 19 December 1843. There have been musicals, animations, theatrical stagings, operas and graphic novels. Doctor Who, the Muppets and Vanessa Williams as Ebony Scrooge have all taken a turn at the traditional festive tale.

But we’re willing to bet you’ve never seen an adaptation quite like the new three-part BBC/FX version, hitting screens and .

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