New adaptation of Christmas Carol set in a zoo or something

As the festive season approaches there is, inevitably, a new adaptation of a Christmas Carol on one of those TV channels right down at the bottom of the Freeview list.

In an attempt to distinguish itself from the 697 other adaptations of a Christmas Carol currently available, this one will be set in a zoo…or a dog pound, something like that. To be honest we weren’t really paying attention.

Something with animals, anyway.

“Whilst we are big fans of the original story, we feel that this new interpretation of the classic tale could really make it relevant for a new generation,” is definitely the sort of thing a studio executive would say about a new adaptation of a Christmas Carol.

This new version will feature a big grumpy dog as Scrooge and Bob Cratchit played by, I don’t know, a nice hamster or something. There will probably be a comedy flatulent pigeon because everyone loves a comedy flatulent pigeon.

The big grumpy dog will be all grumpy until he is visited by the three ghost dogs of Christmas who show him how much happier he could be if he wasn’t grumpy and Bob Cratchit the hamster’s son won’t die.

The grumpy dog cheers up and everyone sings a nice song and then goes home.

It’s probably what Charles Dickens would have wanted.

The news of a new adaptation of Christmas Carol comes in the wake of the adaptation of Christmas Carol by Peaky Blinders creator Steve Knight that featured the swearing, guns and Nick Cave that proved so controversial when Dickens originally published the story.