TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
4x36 Week 8: Monday
4x37 Week 8: Tuesday

Secret Service
Part 3 (of 5)
Part 4 (of 5)
[Watch it (again) on ITVX.]

TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
4x33 Week 7: Wednesday
4x34 Week 7: Thursday
4x35 Week 7: Friday

Secret Service
Part 2 (of 5)
[Watch it (again) on ITVX.]

Collection Count

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

This week's additions include one of my absolute highlights of the year: the 1996 Doctor Who TV Movie, restored in 4K UHD. Haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but very much looking forward to it. It also replaces an entire DVD box set as I continue to rework my Who collection into HD.

Number of titles in collection: 3,696 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 964 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,732 [up 2]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 529 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 8,858 [down 4]
Number of films: 4,751 [up 2]
Number of additional cuts: 495 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 10,123 [down 11]
Number of short films: 1,296 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

How I Met Your Mother
2x03 Brunch [2nd watch]

Richard Osman's House of Games
4x32 Week 7: Tuesday

Secret Service
Part 1 (of 5)
[Watch it (again) on ITVX.]

TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
4x30 Week 6: Friday
4x31 Week 7: Monday

TV

The Wheel
6x07 Episode 7
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Tabletop Games

Daggerheart
All 3 games continuing.

TV

A Midsummer Night's Dream
I can't believe it's taken me 10 years to get round to watching this. That's insane. And it's really good, too! I was thinking about logging it as a film, because it is a "TV movie", but it also feels very 'TV'. Good, but TV-ish.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Russell T Davies Remembers... A Midsummer Night's Dream
A short featurette-length piece of RTD reflecting on the production — even this was three years ago!
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Collection Count

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

It's patchy whether new releases turn up on the Saturday before or not anymore — this week, not. So really it's just the monthly running time update that's new here.

Number of titles in collection: 3,695 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 965 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,730 [no change]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 528 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 8,862 [no change]
Number of films: 4,749 [no change]
Number of additional cuts: 494 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 10,134 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,296 [no change]

Total running time of collection (approx.):
618 days, 6 hours, and 12 minutes.
(Up 22 hours and 47 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.

Articles

Tosca review – Puccini’s high-octane bloodbath bonanza makes for a shocking festival kick-off
and
‘Really entertaining in a horrible way’: the indestructible appeal of Tosca
by Flora Willson (from the Guardian)

I'm going to see this production next month. Sounds like it's gonna be good.