Lot No. 249

PBS Passport to Stream 'Ghost Stories' for Halloween 2024

The Mark Gatiss episodes of the BBC's long-running A Ghost Story for Christmas are dropping the winter holiday from its moniker and will arrive on PBS Passport as Ghost Stories for Halloween.

By Ani Bundel for PBS on 9/24/2024

Colin Ryan as Monkhouse Lee, Kit Harington as Abercrombie Smith, and Freddie Fox as Edward Bellingham try to raise the dead in 'Lot No. 249'

'Lot No. 249' Brings Back Ghosts of Christmas Past, Good & Bad

The tradition of A Ghost Story for Christmas on the BBC returns for another year, with the startlingly queer-coded Lot No. 249.

By Marni Cerise for BritBox on 12/24/2023

Colin Ryan as Monkhouse Lee, Kit Harington as Smith, and Freddie Fox as Bellingham have a lot of sexual tension in 'A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249'

'Lot No. 249' First Images Promise Creepy Crawlies for Christmas

The first images from the BBC Christmas ghost story Lot No. 249 promise cracking Christmas Eve terror TV for BritBox viewers.

By Ani Bundel for BritBox on 12/6/2023

Mark Gatiss Returns to Arthur Conan Doyle for the Holidays

After seven years away, Mark Gatiss returns to the works of Arthur Conan Doyle for this year's BBC Christmas short film Lot No. 249.

By Ani Bundel for BBC on 10/19/2023