Christmas With Higgypop

How typical is your Christmas? Do you stress yourself out with shopping trips at the busiest time of the year and put yourself through the pressure family arguments? Or do you break from tradition and go away for Christmas and escape the hassle of the holidays?

Here's your essential guide to paranormal and weird television for Christmas 2017. The BBC revive the Victorian tradition of scary stories on Christmas Eve with 'Ghost Story Night' on BBC Four, there's also new episode of 'Inside No. 9', 'The League of Gentlemen', 'Black Mirror' and 'Doctor Who'.

There are plenty of Christmas movies with plots that involve the use of magic, how much can you remember about the magical elements in these festive film favourites? Test your knowledge with this quiz.

You might have watched my Elf On The Shelf video a couple of weeks ago where I told you how to see an elf move. Well, ever since I’ve been trying to catch my Elf on the Shelf moving on camera, so I’ve been staying up all night and kept a camera with me at all times.

Christmas. Billions of people celebrate, or at least acknowledge it, every year. But what makes a British Christmas? One person who has set out to document the myriad ways we celebrate a British Christmas is writer and musician Rhodri Marsden, who recently published 'A Very British Christmas – Twelve Days of Discomfort and Joy'.

Lots of weird rumours get circulate on the internet, like the claim that the world is flat or that Slenderman is real. Well, believe it or not, the latest odd rumour is that Santa Claus isn't real.

Can you filter out the two inappropriate phrases to uncover the original phrase to complete these ten famous lines taken from classic Christmas movies?

With snow forecast to hit most part of the UK in the run up to Christmas, you might be wondering if you could survive if you got snowed in. The quiz is designed to determine whether you have the basic provision and to test if you have to necessary survival skills.

Everybody knows that on Christmas Eve Santa starts his journey to deliver gifts to boy and girls around the world. I'm sure you've received presents from him in the past yourself, but have you ever stayed awake to try and see him? This can actually be pretty hard to do and in this video I'll show...

If you want to guarantee yourself a place on Santa Claus' naughty list this year, then these practical joke suggestions and prank ideas are sure to help you achieve your goal as well as irritate your closest family and best friends.

It's not like you need an excuse to raise a glass at this time of year, but our guide to some great Christmas drinks in some great Christmas films might be just the ticket for you to get the sherry out and drink along.

It's a tradition that at this time of year newspapers and websites publish a list of Christmas traditions. Higgypop is no stranger to that festive tradition, only we're doing it in our own way. But what's a 'normal tradition' for us might seem strange to others. For example, in the UK it used to be the habit that a strangely dressed, bearded fellow would appear as if by magic in everyone's living room on Christmas Day. But enough about Noel Edmond's TV specials, what do the rest of the world get up to when celebrating the birth of little baby Jesus?

The truth behind seven common misconceptions relating to Christmas. Questions like 'did the Coca-Cola company really invent Santa?' And 'will it snow in Africa this Christmas?' are debunked once and for all.

If you know someone who loves nothing better than lurking in the dark with an array of ghost detecting devices, but you're stuck on what the get them for Christmas. Then use this guide to help you select the perfect gift.

A list of the funniest and best jokes about Christmas and the holiday season, plus festive one-liners and the finest seasonal puns. Better than anything you'll find in any cracker this Christmas.

You've probably heard of the Elf on the Shelf, they appear in homes around the world before Christmas and keep an eye on you to make sure you're behaving. Perhaps you've seen an elf hiding in your house and you've wished you could see it move, well I'm going to try to find away.

How well do you know the greatest Christmas movies of all time? Have a go at this quiz and see how many of these eleven classic festive films you can identify just from a random, obscure snapshot taken from the movie.

This year's John Lewis Christmas ad, the most anticipated commercial of the year, this Christmas it features a cuddly monster calls Moz.

If you want something a little more exciting than a tiny bite of cheap chocolate behind each of the doors of your advent calendar this year, then here's the ten best advent calendars from affordable but different, through to luxury, as well as some unique and different options.

Ed Sheeran has an incredible 2017, which included a headline set at the legendary Glastonbury Festival, so it's only fitting that he was crowned with the Christmas No. 1 honour.