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Every family that celebrates Christmas likely has those few holiday movies that they watch without fail every year. Maybe you need a little faith in humanity restored via It's a Wonderful Life. Maybe you want to bask in the nostalgic vibes of White Christmas. Maybe you're a little bit more new-school and Elf is your movie of choice (you'd certainly have no shortage of opportunities to catch it on cable). My family's got its own movie traditions, but there's really only one we've managed to watch year after year, and it's not one you might expect.

That movie is Scrooge, the 1970 musical film adaptation of A Christmas Carol. It might not carry the prestige of the '50s version or the nostalgia factor of the Muppets' take on the story, but for my family and I, it's as close to a must-watch as we get. As I've grown and holiday...

Juliette Harrisson Louisa Mellor Oct 26, 2018

This Halloween, and in honor of the arrival of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix, we salute 50 memorable TV witches.

This article comes from Den of Geek UK.

With a reincarnated Sabrina Spellman now on Netflix, and cheap satin costumes aplenty cluttering up the aisles of your local shops, we have witches on our minds. That's a risky place to keep a witch, and this lot are dangerous to begin with... well, some of them are, others are made from pipe cleaners.

Here's a celebration, in no particular order, of fifty great television witches. If you're looking for Halloween costume inspiration, you could do worse than taking a look at the below. It's about time more people dressed up as Grotbags.

Sadistic, silly, cruel or comic, meet fifty witchy madams and misters…

Salem Saberhagen, Sabrina The Teenage Witch (1990s)

Salem Saberhagen is an extraordinary character when you think about it.

Tonight on Investigation Discovery, A Mother’s Search looks at how tragic teenager Samantha Bonnell’s mother Mary Weir solved the painful mystery surrounding her disappearance — by identifying her on the web following her death. Bonnell died at the age of 18 after being hit by at least two cars on a freeway in Montclair, CA. She had traveled there from her home in Palmer, Alaska, while pursuing a dream of traveling the country. Around a day before her death, she rang her mother Mary to tell her how she was getting on — never to be heard from again. As...read more...

Those of us of a certain generation will remember growing up watching BBC children's comedy Rentaghost, which aired between 1976 and 1984.

The series featured a London company run by Fred Mumford, a recently-deceased slacker determined to be more productive than he was during his life. He set up an agency hiring out ghouls and ghosts to the living. Later the business was taken over by Harold and Ethel Meaker.

The regular characters included jester Timothy Claypole (Birmingham actor Michael Staniforth); Victorian gentleman Hubert Davenport (Michael Darbyshire); Hazel McWitch (Molly Weir); Nadia Popov (Sue Nicholls, who went on to play Audrey Roberts in Coronation Street), a hayfever-stricken spook who teleported every time she sneezed; and a pantomime horse called Dobbin.

Well, the whole daft thing is coming back, this time on the big screen. Russell Brand had been set to star as Fred Mumford in a Warner Bros attempt at a movie...