A Christmas Carol is a British dark fantasy miniseries based on the 1843 novella of the same name by Charles Dickens. It began airing on BBC One on 22 December 2019, and concluded two days later on 24 December 2019. The three-part series is written by Steven Knight with actor Tom Hardy and Ridley Scott among the executive producers. This adaptation was meant to present a darker take on the classic story, one aimed for an adult audience.
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A Christmas Carol is a British dark fantasy miniseries based on the 1843 novella of the same name by Charles Dickens. It began airing on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 22 December 2019, and concluded two days later on 24 December 2019. The three-part series is written by Steven Knight with actor Tom Hardy and Ridley Scott among the executive producers. This adaptation was meant to present a darker take on the classic story, one aimed for an adult audience. The mini-series involves adult language, horror elements, implications of child molestation, forced prostitution, and a depiction of a child drowning. Filming locations include Rainham Hall in East London and Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick. In this version, Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley are asset-strippers with extensive industrial interests as well as being moneylenders. Seven years after Marley’s death, the miserlyScrooge still mourns him and regularly speaks aloud as if his old business partner is still there. The Ghost of Christmas Past appears, an old man blind in one eye and wearing worn out clothes.
He warns the miser that three ghosts will show him the truth of his life. A vision shows his childhood self at a boarding school where he was made to stay during Christmas season and was molested by the schoolmaster. A new vision shows Mary asking him for a secret loan of £30 so Tim can have surgery. The next day, he offers to give her most of the sum as a gift if she comes to his apartment on Christmas Day, wishing to see how easily people break morals for money. He then says he does not desire sex and is satisfied with this proof of human nature, giving her the cash and implying he may tell Bob about their arrangement if the man leaves his employment. Bob Cratchit and his wife Mary struggle to survive and watch over their children Belinda and Tim. Bob wishes to thank Mary’s cousin in America who gave them money for surgeries Tim needed years ago, but Mary seems secretive about him.
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