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.

Fiction

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Preface to the First Edition
Sonnet
Chapter 1

The first-ever Gothic novel! I've been meaning to read this forever. Decided to finally dive in on a whim.