Not Going Out
14x05 Dragon Castle
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Richard Osman's Festive House of Games
4x09 Week 2: Thursday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Shetland
10x01 Episode 1
[Watch series 10 (again) on iPlayer.]
Sunday, 4 January 2026
this week on 100Films.co.uk
As was the case for the entirety of 2025, no new reviews were published to 100Films.co.uk this week... but my review of the year did kick off! Hurrah!
Today's post should be the statistics one. I haven't had time to finish that yet. But so far we've had the December monthly review...
Plus, of course, the December 'failures'...
And, for the review of 2025 proper, the full and final list of what I watched to complete the Challenge...
As well as the full and final list of all my first-time watches last year...
For once, I'm confident in saying there'll be more next Sunday, as my review of last year continues — and hopefully concludes!
Today's post should be the statistics one. I haven't had time to finish that yet. But so far we've had the December monthly review...
Plus, of course, the December 'failures'...
And, for the review of 2025 proper, the full and final list of what I watched to complete the Challenge...
As well as the full and final list of all my first-time watches last year...
For once, I'm confident in saying there'll be more next Sunday, as my review of last year continues — and hopefully concludes!
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
Although it's now 2026, this is really the final update for 2025, so the tallies include counts for how much my collection has changed over the last 12 months. More about that in a moment.
In terms of what's new, four titles from Australia (that I pre-ordered months ago) arrived in the dying days of last year, while titles from UK and US sales that I ordered in December itself are still either on their way or not even dispatched. C'est la vie.
Number of titles in collection: 3,654 [up 3 this week; up 208 in 2025]
Of which DVDs: 977 [down 1 this week; down 15 in 2025]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,677 [up 4 this week; up 223 in 2025]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 497 [up 4 this week; up 78 in 2025]
In every respect, my collection has grown less in 2025 than it did in 2024, with fewer new Blu-rays (both regular and 4K) and a lower decrease in DVDs not covering the gap. Well, that's a good thing, because I'm already out of storage space as it is.
Number of discs in collection: 8,779 [up 8 this week; up 467 in 2025]
Number of films: 4,690 [up 7 this week; up 324 in 2025]
Number of additional cuts: 481 [up 3 this week; up 55 in 2025]
Number of TV episodes: 10,188 [no change this week; up 332 in 2025]
Number of short films: 1,280 [no change this week; up 83 in 2025]
Despite the lower increases in titles, the number of discs has gone up by almost the same amount as last year. And though I feel like I buy a lot less TV nowadays (for one thing, it feels like a lot less TV gets released nowadays), my collection grew considerably more than in the last couple of years (332 episodes vs 188 in 2024 and 160 in 2023) — indeed, the most in one year since 2019 — and crossed the 10,000 episode mark.
I guess thanks to all that TV, the annual running time increase is only 4.3% less than last year's...
Total running time of collection (approx.):
614 days and 27 minutes.
(Up 14 hours and 44 minutes from last month.)
(Up 30 days, 4 hours, and 17 minutes from last year.)
Well, that was fun. See you next week for a return to business as usual, faithful reader.
Although it's now 2026, this is really the final update for 2025, so the tallies include counts for how much my collection has changed over the last 12 months. More about that in a moment.
In terms of what's new, four titles from Australia (that I pre-ordered months ago) arrived in the dying days of last year, while titles from UK and US sales that I ordered in December itself are still either on their way or not even dispatched. C'est la vie.
Number of titles in collection: 3,654 [up 3 this week; up 208 in 2025]
Of which DVDs: 977 [down 1 this week; down 15 in 2025]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,677 [up 4 this week; up 223 in 2025]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 497 [up 4 this week; up 78 in 2025]
In every respect, my collection has grown less in 2025 than it did in 2024, with fewer new Blu-rays (both regular and 4K) and a lower decrease in DVDs not covering the gap. Well, that's a good thing, because I'm already out of storage space as it is.
Number of discs in collection: 8,779 [up 8 this week; up 467 in 2025]
Number of films: 4,690 [up 7 this week; up 324 in 2025]
Number of additional cuts: 481 [up 3 this week; up 55 in 2025]
Number of TV episodes: 10,188 [no change this week; up 332 in 2025]
Number of short films: 1,280 [no change this week; up 83 in 2025]
Despite the lower increases in titles, the number of discs has gone up by almost the same amount as last year. And though I feel like I buy a lot less TV nowadays (for one thing, it feels like a lot less TV gets released nowadays), my collection grew considerably more than in the last couple of years (332 episodes vs 188 in 2024 and 160 in 2023) — indeed, the most in one year since 2019 — and crossed the 10,000 episode mark.
I guess thanks to all that TV, the annual running time increase is only 4.3% less than last year's...
Total running time of collection (approx.):
614 days and 27 minutes.
(Up 14 hours and 44 minutes from last month.)
(Up 30 days, 4 hours, and 17 minutes from last year.)
Well, that was fun. See you next week for a return to business as usual, faithful reader.
Saturday, 3 January 2026
TV
Poker Face
2x02 Last Looks
Richard Osman's Festive House of Games
4x06 Week 2: Monday
4x07 Week 2: Tuesday
4x08 Week 2: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
2x02 Last Looks
Richard Osman's Festive House of Games
4x06 Week 2: Monday
4x07 Week 2: Tuesday
4x08 Week 2: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Friday, 2 January 2026
TV
Biggest Night of Musicals
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Not Going Out
14x04 Oasis
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Not Going Out
14x04 Oasis
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Thursday, 1 January 2026
TV
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
32x04 Episode 4
New Year's Eve Fireworks
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Richard Osman's Festive House of Games
4x03 Week 1: Day 3
4x04 Week 1: Day 4
4x05 Week 1: Day 5
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Ronan Keating and Friends: A New Year’s Eve Party
Part 2 (of 2)
"Watched" in the sense of "left on in the background after the fireworks".
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
32x04 Episode 4
New Year's Eve Fireworks
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Richard Osman's Festive House of Games
4x03 Week 1: Day 3
4x04 Week 1: Day 4
4x05 Week 1: Day 5
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Ronan Keating and Friends: A New Year’s Eve Party
Part 2 (of 2)
"Watched" in the sense of "left on in the background after the fireworks".
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Tabletop Games
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle
The Charms and Potions Expansion
Pack 1 (of 4)
Finally getting on to that expansion I've been mentioning.
The Charms and Potions Expansion
Pack 1 (of 4)
Finally getting on to that expansion I've been mentioning.
Wednesday, 31 December 2025
TV
The Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2025
[Watch it (again) on Channel 4.]
Friends
10x17 The Last One Part 1 [6th or so watch]
10x18 The Last One Part 2 [series finale; 6th or so watch]
It's normal to end the year with Friends, right?
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
32x03 Does the 80s
Richard Osman's Festive House of Games
4x02 Week 1: Day 2
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Ronan Keating and Friends: A New Year’s Eve Party
Part 1 (of 2)
Well, what else am I meant to bung on while waiting for the fireworks?
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
[Watch it (again) on Channel 4.]
Friends
10x17 The Last One Part 1 [6th or so watch]
10x18 The Last One Part 2 [series finale; 6th or so watch]
It's normal to end the year with Friends, right?
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
32x03 Does the 80s
Richard Osman's Festive House of Games
4x02 Week 1: Day 2
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Ronan Keating and Friends: A New Year’s Eve Party
Part 1 (of 2)
Well, what else am I meant to bung on while waiting for the fireworks?
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Tuesday, 30 December 2025
TV
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
32x02 Episode 2
Not Going Out
14x03 Campervan
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Richard Osman's Festive House of Games
4x01 Week 1: Day 1
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
The War Between the Land and the Sea
Part 4 The Witch of the Waterfall
Part 5 The End of the War [finale]
[Watch the whole series (again) on iPlayer.]
32x02 Episode 2
Not Going Out
14x03 Campervan
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Richard Osman's Festive House of Games
4x01 Week 1: Day 1
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
The War Between the Land and the Sea
Part 4 The Witch of the Waterfall
Part 5 The End of the War [finale]
[Watch the whole series (again) on iPlayer.]
Monday, 29 December 2025
TV
The War Between the Land and the Sea
Part 2 Plastic Apocalypse
Part 3 The Deep
[Watch the whole series (again) on iPlayer.]
Watson
1x13 My Life's Work Part 2 [season finale]
Would I Lie To You?
19x00 At Christmas
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Only programmes beginning with W today, for some reason.
Part 2 Plastic Apocalypse
Part 3 The Deep
[Watch the whole series (again) on iPlayer.]
Watson
1x13 My Life's Work Part 2 [season finale]
Would I Lie To You?
19x00 At Christmas
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Only programmes beginning with W today, for some reason.
Comics
2000 AD
Prog 2463
And that's 2025's 2000 AD complete — which means I'm finally all caught up! ("Finally" because I've been working on this goal since September.)
I hadn't really processed it, because at the time I was just doing what I could to catch up, but reading the 'recap of the year' feature they run nowadays brought home to me that I've raced through an entire year's worth of 2000 AD in about 2½ months (and over a year's worth in about 3 months of dedicated effort). When I started this push, it was no more than a semi-desperate attempt to catch-up, reduce my backlog, not feel like I wasted my money... but, in some respects, it's been quite a nice way to read it. It certainly condenses storylines, which sometimes makes it easier to remember what's going on in them, especially with long-runners. So, even though I've now caught up, I wonder if I should deliberately get behind again — save up all 2026's Progs until September/October time and do another massive catch-up? Hmm, I'm not sure doing it deliberately is such a good idea... though, knowing me, once I get out of the habit of regular reading (which I will, whether I like it or not, now that I don't have a literal pile of Progs to work through), I might end up doing it accidentally.
What I should do is apply this method to the massive stack of unread US comics I've accumulated over the past three years... or even just catch up on X-Men (unread since May!) or Absolute Batman (unread since July!)
Prog 2463
And that's 2025's 2000 AD complete — which means I'm finally all caught up! ("Finally" because I've been working on this goal since September.)
I hadn't really processed it, because at the time I was just doing what I could to catch up, but reading the 'recap of the year' feature they run nowadays brought home to me that I've raced through an entire year's worth of 2000 AD in about 2½ months (and over a year's worth in about 3 months of dedicated effort). When I started this push, it was no more than a semi-desperate attempt to catch-up, reduce my backlog, not feel like I wasted my money... but, in some respects, it's been quite a nice way to read it. It certainly condenses storylines, which sometimes makes it easier to remember what's going on in them, especially with long-runners. So, even though I've now caught up, I wonder if I should deliberately get behind again — save up all 2026's Progs until September/October time and do another massive catch-up? Hmm, I'm not sure doing it deliberately is such a good idea... though, knowing me, once I get out of the habit of regular reading (which I will, whether I like it or not, now that I don't have a literal pile of Progs to work through), I might end up doing it accidentally.
What I should do is apply this method to the massive stack of unread US comics I've accumulated over the past three years... or even just catch up on X-Men (unread since May!) or Absolute Batman (unread since July!)
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