Video Games

Hitman: World of Assassination

After my disastrous first attempt at this game, I never thought I'd be back; but, long story short, there's a free Bond tie-in level that, if you play it, unlocks a bonus in the forthcoming James Bond game, and I'm told all you have to do is "play it" in the sense of "start it" (as opposed to "complete it") to unlock the bonus — so I did that.

The content isn't in my account yet, but I guess it takes time to sync up — hopefully that's all it is, anyway, because I don't want to have to work out how to actually complete the level or something. I did also give the game a go again... in the sense that I actually finished the tutorial this time, before heading into the relevant content, where I wandered around a bit, realised I had no real idea what I was doing, got into a shootout, and kept firing 'til I got killed, because fuck this.

I hope the Bond game isn't too much like Hitman, because this isn't really my kinda fun.

TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
4x28 Week 6: Wednesday
4x29 Week 6: Thursday

Tabletop Games

Daggerheart
All 3 games continuing.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle

TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
4x26 Week 6: Monday
4x27 Week 6: Tuesday
Having caught up, it's back to some old episodes I missed at the time and fortunately downloaded (because they've not been on iPlayer for ages).

Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
Part 1 (of 2)
Part 2 (of 2)

Films

Locker Sixty-Nine (1962)
[#22 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026]

Tabletop Games

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Trick-Taking Game

TV

Leverage: Redemption
1x14 The Great Train Job

Richard Osman's House of Games
9x99 Champions Week 3: Thursday
9x100 Champions Week 3: Friday [season finale]
Sort of a series finale, too, as this is Osman's last full season as host — it will be Michael Sheen's House of Games soon; but I believe Osman is hosting one final week first.
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Collection Count

Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.

Number of titles in collection: 3,685 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 965 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,720 [no change]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 524 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 8,845 [up 3]
Number of films: 4,737 [no change]
Number of additional cuts: 490 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 10,134 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,293 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

How I Met Your Mother
2x01 Where Were We? [2nd watch]
2x02 The Scorpion and the Toad [2nd watch]

Poker Face
2x06 Sloppy Joseph

Richard Osman's House of Games
9x96 Champions Week 3: Monday
9x97 Champions Week 3: Tuesday
9x98 Champions Week 3: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Fiction

Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber
II. Stardock pp.20–24

TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
9x95 Champions Week 2: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Fiction

Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber
II. Stardock pp.14–19

Fiction

Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber
II. Stardock pp.7–13