Saturday 19 August 2023

TV

Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
[2nd watch]
This is one of those things that's not really TV (though it has been shown on TV) but is not really a film either (it's a filmed live show, which I watched on Blu-ray), so where should I list it? Well, it's here now; and whatever it is, it's very good.

Leverage
5x09 The Rundown Job
This is listed as episode 10 on IMDb, but comes up as episode 9 on Amazon Prime. Seems the pair were originally broadcast on the same night, with this one first, so it's IMDb that's wrong in this case.

More interestingly, it felt like a backdoor pilot for a spinoff, or possibly a new direction in season 6: Nate and Sophie not only don't appear, they aren't even mentioned; while Eliot becomes team leader due to his military connections as he, Hardison and Parker take down a would-be terrorist. It's more like a low-budget 24 or something than a regular heist-based episode of Leverage. I was fully expecting to check the IMDb trivia and learn it was intended as such a relaunch, but there's nothing there — which is almost weirder.

Richard Osman's House of Games
6x87 Week 20: Tuesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Jigsaw Man (1983)

Marriage of Convenience (1960)
[#61 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2023]

Collection Count

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

Three new additions this week, between them representing my regular kinds of purchases: a newly released title (in 4K); a preorder direct from the label that's turned up a couple of weeks early; and a cheap catalogue title.

Number of titles in collection: 3,138 [up 3]
Of which DVDs: 1,028 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,110 [up 3]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 278 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 7,674 [up 4]
Number of films: 3,847 [up 2]
Number of additional cuts: 338 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,624 [up 6]
Number of short films: 1,067 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.