Classic festive film 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' will be touring the UK as a concert in 2021, starting in Liverpool on November 28 and making stops in Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Nottingham. A separate concert will be held for one night in London’s Royal Albert Hall on December 11, with a matinee and evening [...]
Turning Easter into something more akin to Christmas appears to be taking hold across the UK, with a surge in sales of Easter-themed decorations such as artificial Easter trees, rabbit-themed Easter crackers and candles that are hot cross bun-scented. According to John Lewis, Easter decoration sales are already up 77 per cent compared to last [...]
Shea Earnshaw, author of The Wicked Deep, has been hired to write a sequel book to The Nightmare Before Christmas, which will be written from the perspective of rag doll Sally and should be on shelves for Christmas 2022. The plot sees happily married Jack Skellington - the main protagonist in the first story, which was turned into [...]
Writer and actor Mark Gatiss, one of the creative forces behind such major television hits as Sherlock and Dracula, is adapting his fifth ghost story for the BBC to air at Christmas 2021. It is once more based on a short story by M.R. James and follows the success Gatiss has enjoyed with four other ghost [...]
We have no time for the bah-humbug types who bemoan the early splash of Christmas in shops and online. We would much rather they keep their opinions to themselves. It really isn’t hurting anyone and actually brings joy to those who revel in the Christmas build-up. It is with those Scrooges in mind that we [...]
Classic FM’s vote for the annual classical music Hall of Fame opens this month and results will be revealed over the Easter weekend in April. You can vote for your three favourite pieces online at classicfm.com...and we want you to go Christmassy. We encourage you to take part and suggest you consider voting for a [...]
As Orthodox Christians in central and eastern Europe, along with other parts of the world, celebrate Christmas on January 7 it is our delight to wish you a very happy and peaceful Christmas Day. The day is a time of reflection and healing in many eastern European countries, but it is also a day for feasting [...]
It is our delight to wish all of you celebrating the feast of Epiphany today all the happiness in the world. Sometimes called Three Kings’ Day, January 6th is celebrated in some traditions as “Little Christmas”. Epiphany, a Christian feast day that celebrates the revelation of God incarnate as Jesus Christ, principally commemorates the visit of [...]
Thirty-six years after it was first released, Wham!'s "Last Christmas" has topped the UK singles chart for the first time after notching 9.2 million streams in the last week. Wham!'s song was denied top spot by Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" back in December 1984 and became the biggest-selling single never to reach number [...]
As we enter the second year of the twenties, we at How to Christmas want to wish you all a very happy, prosperous and above all healthy New Year.