Saturday 9 December 2023

TV

Doctor Who
40x0C The Giggle [60th anniversary special #3]
What a finale! I'd read some of the leaks, but it worked so much better in situ (as I hoped/expected it would). The end was... kinda beautiful. Also watched the video commentary, which is on iPlayer here.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Doctor Who: Unleashed
1x03 The Giggle [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Podcasts

The Official Doctor Who Podcast
60th Anniversary Special 3 - The Giggle
[Listen to it (again) on BBC Sounds.]

Collection Count

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

Five new titles this week, all new releases... more or less. I mean, one of them is The Exorcist on 4K (upgrading from BD), which first came out a little while back, but I was waiting for this 'regular' Steelbook that contains all five discs (the previous releases from a month or two ago either don't contain all the discs or threw in extra tat for an exorbitant price). Alongside that, there's Indiana Jones 5, also on 4K, and three new titles from Radiance, including a box set.

I'd hoped a couple of titles from Australia would be here in time for this update too, but it looks like they'll be next week now. And, even though we're almost at Christmas — which traditionally means things quieten down in anticipation of presents and before labels kick off again in the new year — I've got seven further titles on preorder that should arrive within the next fortnight.

Number of titles in collection: 3,204 [up 4]
Of which DVDs: 1,020 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,184 [up 4]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 317 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 7,821 [up 10]
Number of films: 3,942 [up 6]
Number of additional cuts: 349 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,665 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,106 [up 5]

See you next week, faithful reader.