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Halloween special:

• Premiere date: Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026
• Time: 9–10 PM ET/PT
• Episode title: “Halloween 6: The Mirror – Parts One & Two”
• What to expect: Kyle babysits the ghosts while Sam is away, Hetty reunites with her estranged sister, Margaret, and Bela hosts a Halloween party.
• Christmas special premiere date: Thursday, Dec. 10, 2026
• Network: CBS
• Streaming: Paramount+
• Creators: Joe Port and Joe Wiseman
• Based on: The BBC comedy known in the U.S. as Ghosts UK

There will be some surprises this season, the cast alluded to lots of fun when we met them at this years NY COminCon!

Ghosts Season 6 and the new Ghosts Halloween special “Halloween 6: The Mirror – Parts One & Two” will air on CBS, and stream on Paramount+ with a subscription. Subscribers can tune in live as episodes air live on CBS with the Paramount+ Premium plan, or watch on demand the day after they air. Plans start at $8.99 a month. Visit the Paramount+ Help Center for more info on plans and pricing.

All five seasons of Ghosts are streaming now on Paramount+ on demand, so there’s plenty of time to catch up (or relive a few favorite episodes) before Season 6 arrives.

And all the celeb photos!

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If you’re a regular reader, you’ll have heard of Eat2Explore already, because we covered them in our 2025 Holiday Gift Guides (see here). Well, we have exciting news. They have an advent calendar! Eat2Explore’s Christmas Around the World Advent Calendar is a fun idea, especially if you enjoy cooking.

Eat2Explore is committed to bringing the world’s cuisines to our doors. So far, they have 24 boxes across 4 world regions, plus baking boxes. Each box includes three recipes from the country or region represented, along with seasonings and spices, and a shopping list of the additional ingredients you’ll need. There’s a booklet that includes historical and cultural information, along with movie and book recommendations. There are even links to Spotify playlists so you can set the mood during your meal. Each box also includes a kitchen tool that you’ll need during your meal preparation and a magnet that represents the country or region. If you’ve noted the odd shape of the magnet, it’s because it’s part of a jigsaw puzzle. You’ll get a different piece in each of the different boxes. You can track your progress on your refrigerator!

The advent calendar includes six different boxes, which are marked only with a number. There’s also a scratch-off card with six numbered circles. When you’ve scratched off the circle, you’ll see a QR code and the country that box represents. The QR code takes you to the Eat2Explore Christmas Around the World webpage for that country. You’ll learn about the Christmas traditions for that country, including what they do, how they celebrate, what they eat and drink, and more. There are even crafts you can do and suggestions for holiday movies to watch. And, of course, a link to a Spotify playlist of Christmas music for that country or region.

The Eat2Explore Christmas Around the World Advent Calendar is a great gift for anyone on your Christmas list, as well as for your own family. There are six boxes in the advent calendar and you get to pick the timing. Cooking together and learning together about a different culture is a wonderful family activity, which gets extended when you also include the holiday movies, music, crafts, and you also have the option of trying out the different holiday meals over the holiday season.

https://eat2explore.com/pages/advent-calendar

*****Highly Recommended

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Our next advent calendar is from Haupt Lakrits. Haupt Lakrits is based in Sweden (lakrits is licorice in Swedish) and their mission is to create amazing small-batch licorice. It all started with chocolate, believe it or not. Christian Haupt, the founder of Haupt Lakrits, went to Iceland to learn about chocolate, and ended up diving into licorice, happily for us. He’s not just making plain licorice, though. His flavors are so good and well-balanced!

TOP TIP: Check out Haupt Lakrits website for a guide to licorice with lots of information and tips about eating licorice from a true expert!

The Haupt Lakrits advent calendar cover is a stunning photograph by Ryoji Tanaka. It’s what I imagine a walk through a Scandinavian forest during a moonlit winter night looks like, but it’s actually a photograph of ammonium chloride, the salt that Scandinavian salt licorice is made with. Throughout the advent calendar, everything is in black and an almost-silvery white.

There are 25 windows, starting on November 30th. This advent calendar is great for licorice lovers, especially those who love true licorice. Haupt Lakrits uses Calabrian licorice root and all natural ingredients, so you can indulge as much as you want. A word of warning, though. The first two days are an incredibly-salty licorice, Svenskjävlar, created by Haupt Lakrits. In fact, it’s the world’s saltiest licorice, so if you’re not a salt fan, start on December 2^nd. I think it’s worth tasting everything, though, so do give it a try. Most of the days have chocolate-covered licorice spheres, but some of the days have filled licorice. It’s a great assortment. I only hope that it includes Ultra Violet, which sounds amazing!

TOP TIP: I’m eating my super salty licorices one bite a day. They’re very good, but extremely intense.

Haupt Lakrits Advent Calendar is full of amazing licorice in wild flavors. Some of them will be like nothing you’ve imagined before. This review is spoiler-free, but there are a couple (or more) flavors that should probably be kept from little ones (one is very spicy). You can pop the windows board out to see the names and the flavors. If you’re sharing this licorice advent calendar with littles, be sure to check everything out before you share. And the Haupt Lakrits advent calendar is easily sharable. Each (or most) of the packets contain two pieces, but, again, some flavors aren’t for everyone.

https://hauptlakrits.us/products/advent-calendar

٭٭٭٭٭Highly Recommended

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Our next advent calendar review is another crossover with our fine art in toys series. The Modern Fine Art Christmas Advent Calendar from Eurographics Arts & Puzzles is a jigsaw-puzzle-a-day advent calendar. There is no Christmas theme, so you could give this to anyone to count down anything, really.

The Eurographics Modern Fine Art Christmas Advent Calendar is a 24-day advent calendar. There are 24 windows/boxes, each of which contains a small 50-piece jigsaw puzzle. Each of the puzzle pieces is approximately 1 inch.  Each day’s box includes the pieces for that day in a zipper-locked bag, and on the sides of the box, you’ll find the name of the artist and the name of the artwork on one side and the image of the puzzle on the other. As a fan of modern art, especially Salvador Dalí, I love the assortment of images and will take special joy in completing this advent calendar.

TOP TIP: If you are sharing the calendar and want to claim certain artworks to complete, you can pull the boxes out a little to find out which puzzle is which.

As with the Eurographics Fine Art Christmas advent calendar puzzles that we reviewed in our Christmas in July series (https://www.gaynycdad.com/2026/07/fine-art-christmas-advent-calendar.html), this is a great activity advent calendar. The puzzles take 10-15 minutes to complete (for an adult), so they can be an early morning or bedtime activity. Unfortunately, the frames on the box cover are not part of the images, because they are beautiful and well-matched to the artworks. Each of the puzzles represents the original perfectly, with correct colors and fine details. The age range is 9+, so if you include your littles, be sure to supervise closely.

TOP TIP: In addition to being an excellent advent calendar, with beautiful images to piece together, Eurographics Art & Puzzles Modern Fine Art Christmas Advent Calendar is a great way to introduce fine art to your littles. You can extend the activity to learning more about each artwork, artist, artistic style, etc.

But it here!

٭٭٭٭٭Highly recommended

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