Saturday 6 July 2024

TV

Doctor Who
8x18 Colony in Space Episode Four

Comics

2000 AD #2383,2384,2385

Articles

Doctor Who boss opens up about that surprising Richard E. Grant cameo that made an obscure Doctor canon
by Emily Murray & Darren Scott (from SFX)

Interesting to get some more info on this, considering it was a pretty monumental thing to just chuck in there, which I don't think has been discussed by anyone involved before now.

Videos

Critical Role
2x37 Dangerous Liaisons
Can't believe I've, almost voluntarily, waited a week between Crit Role episodes! It's a combination of factors: after-work work events; watching live election coverage; and knowing this episode had a poor recording, so I'd need to give it 100% attention throughout to read the subtitles (which aren't present on the Twitch version, unfortunately, so I've switched back to YouTube and endured its adverts just for this episode). Plus, as a live show, it feels Special (based on how much I enjoyed the last one), so I kind of viewed it as a treat to be saved rather than just another episode to burn through (otherwise I might've watched it in bits and pieces over the last week).
[Watch it (again) on YouTube, or Twitch, or Beacon.]

Collection Count

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

I thought there was going to be a bit more to report this week, but the Australian titles I mentioned last time have spent most of the week sat at an airport waiting to be loaded. Still, some newer domestic purchases managed to make their way through the postal network, giving me three new additions this week. They're actually all BD-to-4K upgrades, though two aren't directly replacing anything (one because my BD copy is in a box set, the other because the BD has more special features).

Number of titles in collection: 3,313 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,002 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,311 [up 2]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 364 [up 3]

Number of discs in collection: 8,011 [up 3]
Number of films: 4,084 [up 2]
Number of additional cuts: 389 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 9,720 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,148 [up 2]

See you next week, faithful reader, when those Aussie titles should definitely be here — just in time for the monthly running time update.