Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Murder on the Orient Express actor Derek Jacobi and Game of Thrones alum Diana Rigg are to star in the BBC's television event A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong.
The comedic adaptation of Dickens' holiday classic casts Jacobi as Ebenezer Scrooge in the British broadcaster's production of A Christmas Carol "until it is hijacked by the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society and he is hauled out while on air!" a press release said. "Diana Rigg is playing the aunt of Sandra, one of the Cornley crew, and will also step in as the narrator, as well as on the accelerator as she races against the clock to make it to the recording before the curtains close."