TV

Blackadder's Christmas Carol
My Blackadder (re)watch fell over for no particular reason back in March (I've been meaning to resume it ever since, but without serious-enough intent to ever make it happen), but I'm jumping out of sequence now because otherwise, if/when I do resume the rewatch, when I get to this special I'll likely feel the need to pause again until whenever next Christmas is (at least a year from now, obv). Besides, it doesn't really matter if I watch them out of order. And this is one of the few episodes I'd never seen, so finally ticking it off was part of the purpose of the rewatch anyway.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Casualty
39x07 All I Want for Christmas [Christmas special]
Didn't intend to watch this, but the TV was still on (see The Wheel) and I ended up half-watching enough of it that I stuck with it even after I finished wrapping.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Been meaning to watch this since it first aired in 2015. It's ridiculous how long it takes me to get round to things... Anyway, it's a lovely overview of a great British institution, with plenty to cover so that its hour-long running time never runs out of steam. If anything, a little more detail in some places wouldn't hurt; and, of course, it's now nearly a decade out of date — an update bringing us into Aardman's "Netflix era" wouldn't hurt. Though maybe it should wait until that ends, which it surely will, similar to the Dreamworks period...
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Wheel
5x10 Episode 10 [season finale]
Didn't actually intend to watch this — and I only half-watched it, really — because I put the TV on to find some music to wrap presents by, this was just starting, and I got somewhat sucked in. But, as I say, I only half-watched it, so it'l be interesting to see if I can still remember the answers when I watch it 'properly'.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
[3rd watch]
[#100 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2024]

For the first time since I initiated my new-style 100 Films in a Year Challenge in 2022, I've completed it! Hurrah! And what a quality note to end on. Can't wait for Vengeance Most Fowl on Christmas Day.

Fiction

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes for Christmas by Derrick Belanger
December 21st: The Christmas Ripper

Collection Count

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

The final pre-Christmas update of 2024 sees seven new titles added to my collection, but you wouldn't immediately know it from the numbers below. That's because there's a DVD-to-BD upgrade (of a box set that previously contained nine films, but now has 12) and two BD-to-4K upgrades (one of which adds a pile of discs, an alternate cut, and a bonus feature film).

Number of titles in collection: 3,438 [up 4]
Of which DVDs: 992 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,448 [up 5]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 417 [up 3]

Number of discs in collection: 8,303 [up 17]
Number of films: 4,357 [up 13]
Number of additional cuts: 425 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 9,856 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,195 [no change]

Once upon a time, Christmas would've been one of my busiest disc weeks of the year. Nowadays, I might not even get any. Find out which way the pendulum has swung next week, faithful reader.