TV

The Box of Delights
Part 4 The Spider in the Web
[Watch the whole series (again) on iPlayer.]

Friends
5x01 The One After Ross Says Rachel [5th or so watch]
5x02 The One with All the Kissing [5th or so watch]
5x03 The One Hundredth [5th or so watch]

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
32x04 Episode 4

Richard Osman's Festive House of Games
3x05 Week 1: Sunday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

The Rookie
6x03 Trouble in Paradise

Shetland
9x03 Episode 3
9x04 Episode 4
[Watch series 9 (again) on iPlayer.]

Collection Count

Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week. And as this update is the 'end of year' one, there are some numbers for that too. Ooh, exciting!

Number of titles in collection: 3,446 [up 6 this week; up 235 in 2024]
Of which DVDs: 992 [no change this week; down 29 in 2024]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,454 [up 6 this week; up 264 in 2024]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 419 [up 2 this week; up 98 in 2024]

Mostly bigger than last year (235 new titles bests 220), but not quite as big as the years before that (241 in 2022 and 240 in 2021). On the other hand, UHDs were virtually identical to last year, when I purchased 99, so it looks like I'm pretty consistent on that front now (all previous years were lower). Maybe next year they'll cross the 100 threshold. Basically two a week, every week? Well, you never know. Radiance are getting into the UHD game next year, so that could help.

Number of discs in collection: 8,312 [up 9 this week; up 477 in 2024]
Number of films: 4,366 [up 9 this week; up 419 in 2024]
Number of additional cuts: 426 [up 1 this week; up 76 in 2024]
Number of TV episodes: 9,856 [no change this week; up 188 in 2024]
Number of short films: 1,197 [up 2 this week; up 88 in 2024]

Discs are slightly up on last year, but films have increased loads — 419 this year is far higher than 298 last year, and solidly up on 385 and 363 in the years before that. I'm guessing more box sets with more films on fewer discs.

Total running time of collection (approx.):
583 days, 20 hours, and 10 minutes.
(Up 1 day, 9 hours, and 13 minutes from last month.)
(Up 31 days, 12 hours, and 33 minutes from last year.)

That's a whole week bigger than 2023's yearly increase, and the largest since 2020's (which was larger by about 19 hours). Should I be proud, or should I be intending to cut back? I'm never sure...

Well, whatever — more stuff is on the way! As ever, see you next week, faithful reader.