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How I Met Your Mother
1x03 The Sweet Taste of Liberty [2nd watch]

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
33x07 Episode 7 [season finale]

Richard Osman's House of Games
9x01 Week 1: Monday
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Never Mind the Buzzcocks
33x06 Does 90s Pop

Richard Osman's House of Games
8x93 Champions Week 1: Wednesday
8x94 Champions Week 1: Thursday
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Slow Horses
5x05 Circus
5x06 Scars [season finale]

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks
33x05 Episode 5

Richard Osman's House of Games
8x91 Champions Week 1: Monday
8x92 Champions Week 1: Tuesday
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Slow Horses
5x03 Tall Tales
5x04 Missiles

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks
33x04 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
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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".
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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
33x03 Does the 80s

Richard Osman's Festive House of Games
4x02 Week 1: Day 2
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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?
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Never Mind the Buzzcocks
33x02 Episode 2

Not Going Out
14x03 Campervan
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Richard Osman's Festive House of Games
4x01 Week 1: Day 1
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The War Between the Land and the Sea
Part 4 The Witch of the Waterfall
Part 5 The End of the War [finale]
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Never Mind the Buzzcocks
33x01 Madchester vs Britpop

Watson
1x12 My Life's Work Part 1

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Live at the Apollo
20x01 Christmas Special
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Never Mind the Buzzcocks
33x08 Christmas Special

Richard Osman's House of Games
8x71 Redemption Week 1: Monday
8x72 Redemption Week 1: Tuesday
8x73 Redemption Week 1: Wednesday
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The Sea Devils
The latest in an occasional series of feature-length re-edits of classic Doctor Who stories, this one as a tie-in / sorta-prequel to miniseries The War Between the Land and the Sea. I'm not a huge fan of the original serial (which I watched recently — just 3½ years ago), so cutting out 40% makes it somewhat more entertaining — certainly, I didn't feel anything significant was missing, but you can tell it's been sped up in places. As someone who's absolutely fine with watching classic Who at full length, I don't need these re-edits; but if they help introduce new viewers to older episodes of the show, that's a net good.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Wheel
6x10 Christmas Special
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Friends
5x14 The One Where Everybody Finds Out [5th or so watch]
5x15 The One with the Girl Who Hits Joey [5th or so watch]
5x16 The One with the Cop [5th or so watch]

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
32x09 Episode 9

Strike
5x03 The Ink Black Heart Part 3
5x04 The Ink Black Heart Part 4 [season finale]
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Never Mind the Buzzcocks
32x08 Never Mind the Buzzcocks Does the 00s

Richard Osman's House of Games
8x57 Week 12: Tuesday
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The Rookie
6x05 The Vow

Strike
5x01 The Ink Black Heart Part 1
5x02 The Ink Black Heart Part 2
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Never Mind the Buzzcocks
32x07 Episode 7

Richard Osman's House of Games
8x56 Week 12: Monday
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Friends
5x11 The One with All the Resolutions [5th or so watch]
5x12 The One with Chandler's Work Laugh [5th or so watch]
5x13 The One with Joey's Bag [5th or so watch]

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
32x06 Episode 6

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Friends
5x07 The One Where Ross Moves In [6th or so watch]

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
32x05 Never Mind the Buzzcocks Does Girl Groups & Boy Bands

Richard Osman's Festive House of Games
3x09 Week 2: Thursday
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Vera
14x01 Inside
I haven't watched Vera since 2018 — I find crime dramas too samey to watch too many of them (that's partly why I'm over a year behind on Death in Paradise), and I just didn't feel like more Vera at the time. But it's a pretty good show, really, and these are the final episodes, so it felt right to come back for them.
[Watch it (again) on ITVX.]

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The Box of Delights
Part 4 The Spider in the Web
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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
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The Rookie
6x03 Trouble in Paradise

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

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The Box of Delights
Part 3 In Darkest Cellars Underneath
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Friends
4x23 The One with Ross's Wedding Part 1 [6th or so watch]
4x24 The One with Ross's Wedding Part 2 [season finale; 6th or so watch]

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
32x03 Never Mind the Buzzcocks Does the 90s

Richard Osman's Festive House of Games
3x04 Week 1: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Shetland
9x01 Episode 1
9x02 Episode 2
[Watch series 9 (again) on iPlayer.]

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Death in Paradise
13x00 Christmas Special 2023
At this point, I have a suspicion I'm always going to be a year behind with this show...
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Michael McIntyre's 25th Year Stand-Up Special
He's not everyone's cup of tea (because he's massively popular and therefore some people just have to dislike him), but McIntyre remains a remarkably funny standup for someone who's been at it so long.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
32x02 Episode 2

Outnumbered
Christmas Special 2024
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Richard Osman's Festive House of Games
3x01 Week 1: Monday
3x02 Week 1: Tuesday
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The Rookie
6x02 The Hammer
The show's 100th episode. So not a Christmas special, but still kinda special.

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Bad Tidings
Is this a "film" or a TV special? Well, it's a TV movie, more or less (it's properly feature-length, not just an hour long; and it's in 2.39:1, which used to mean something but doesn't really anymore), and I've counted TV movies as films in the past, so I guess it counts. (It doesn't really matter, especially as I've completed my new-style 100 Films Challenge this year, but it does affect whether I (intend to) review it on 100Films.co.uk and whether it counts towards my annual statistics there.)

The Box of Delights
Part 1 When the Wolves Were Running
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Friends
4x19 The One with All the Haste [5th or so watch]
4x20 The One with All the Wedding Dresses [5th or so watch]

Gavin & Stacey
A Special Christmas [2019 Christmas special; 3rd watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
32x10 Xmas Special [season finale]

Would I Lie To You?
18x00 At Christmas
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks
32x01 Never Mind The Buzzcocks Does Rock

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Blankety Blank
3x09 Episode 9
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Friends
1x03 The One with the Thumb [many-th watch]

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
31x10 Christmas Special [season finale]

Richard Osman's Festive House of Games
2x06 Week 2: Monday
It's called "Monday", but it went out on a Tuesday, and Osman pointedly describes it as "Day One" because they clearly had no idea what day it would air.
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Friends
1x01 The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate [many-th watch]
1x02 The One with the Sonogram at the End [many-th watch]
Here we go, off on another rewatch — coming up on four years since I happened to comment I needed to "soon", and over 10 years since I last actually did. No wonder bits were unfamiliar.

Ghosts
5x05 Carpe Diem
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Murder Is Easy
Part 1 (of 2)
Part 2 (of 2)
Murder may be easy, but making high-quality Agatha Christie adaptations clearly isn’t. I've seen worse, but, sadly, this could've been better.
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Never Mind the Buzzcocks
31x09 Episode 9

The Rookie
5x01 Double Down