Here are some stories behind A Christmas Carol, both the novella and its various adaptations.

Steven Knight darkened our holiday doorsteps in 2019 with a bleak and dour adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. That limited series, which hailed from both the BBC and FX, embraced all of the small-minded, mean-spirited, and hard-hearted aspects that the infamous Ebenezer Scrooge (Guy Pearce) has become known for, but forgot to bring in the Christmas cheer, the optimistic change wrought by near-death experiences and a retrospective look on one's life, and the hopeful nature of the human condition. But that's just my opinion. Clearly the studios behind the production feel differently …