TV

Only Murders in the Building
5x09 LESTR
5x10 The House Always... [season finale]

Richard Osman's House of Games
4x03 Week 1: Wednesday

Fiction

The Swords of Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
Chapters 10–11

Articles

If you're not paying attention to retro game recompilations, you're missing the most exciting thing in gaming right now
by Wes Fenlon (from PC Gamer)

I've got a couple of the games mentioned herein setup through emulators on my Steam Deck. Sounds like I should be getting these versions instead...

TV

How I Met Your Mother
2x11 How Lily Stole Christmas [2nd watch]
2x12 First Time in New York [2nd watch]

Only Murders in the Building
5x08 Cuckoo Chicks

Richard Osman's House of Games
4x01 Week 1: Monday
4x02 Week 1: Tuesday

Fiction

The Swords of Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
Chapter 9

TV

How I Met Your Mother
2x10 Single Stamina [2nd watch]

Only Murders in the Building
5x07 Silver Alert

Richard Osman's House of Games
4x74 Week 15: Thursday
4x75 Week 15: Friday

Fiction

The Swords of Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
Chapters 7–8

TV

How I Met Your Mother
2x09 Slap Bet [2nd watch]

Only Murders in the Building
5x06 Flatbush

Richard Osman's House of Games
4x72 Week 15: Tuesday
4x73 Week 15: Wednesday

Fiction

The Swords of Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
Chapters 5–6

TV

Only Murders in the Building
5x05 Tongue Tied

Richard Osman's House of Games
4x71 Week 15: Monday

Fiction

The Swords of Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
Chapters 3–4

Tabletop Games

Daggerheart
All 3 games continuing.

TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
4x64 Week 13: Thursday
4x65 Week 13: Friday

Films

Flavia (2026)
[#40 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026]

Fiction

The Swords of Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
Chapters 1–2

Resuming the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser series after a three-month break. This is the only full-length novel in the series (although even then it's relatively short as novels go).

Tabletop Games

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle

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

this fortnight on 100Films.co.uk

Didn't get round to posting a 100Films.co.uk update last week, but that's okay because it just means both halves of my July review are condensed into this post.

First up, the general review of the month:





And then, the failures:





More next Sunday? Unlikely as ever these days.

TV

How I Met Your Mother
2x08 Atlantic City [2nd watch]

Only Murders in the Building
5x04 Dirty Birds

Poker Face
2x08 The Sleazy Georgian

Richard Osman's House of Games
4x62 Week 13: Tuesday
4x63 Week 13: Wednesday

Tabletop Games

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle

Collection Count

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

Three brand-new 4K releases this week, including an upgrade for Jackie Chan's Armour of God.

Number of titles in collection: 3,721 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 964 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,757 [up 2]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 549 [up 3]

Number of discs in collection: 8,937 [up 5]
Number of films: 4,811 [up 2]
Number of additional cuts: 509 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 10,136 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,322 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.