TV

Wimbledon 2022
Men's Final
I've watched bits of Wimbledon on and off this year, but not enough to feel it merited logging. I only half-watched this too, but I did have the full thing on, and it was worth it for the touching tribute to Sue Barker after the match. Even though I don't watch a huge amount of Wimbledon (I haven't bothered to log it since 2014!), I'm always aware of it, and she's been presenting it for as long as I can remember. Definitely an emotional farewell.
[You can watch all of the BBC's coverage of Wimbledon on iPlayer.]

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Comedians Giving Lectures
1x07 Episode 7
1x08 Episode 8 [season finale]
[Watch the whole series (again) on UKTV Play.]

The Great Model Railway Challenge
2x08 The Final: Surprise Surprise [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

One Night: Joshua vs Ruiz
Not normally my kind of thing, though enjoying all of the Rocky/Creed movies last year has changed my perspective somewhat. (And I only half watched this anyway.)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

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2018 World Cup
Third Place Play-off Belgium v England
I watched the first half, and it was so monumentally dull I then went off to do something else. I guess I'm over The Football, then... but I'll be watching tomorrow for the Doctor Who trailer.
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]

Legion
1x01 Chapter 1
1x02 Chapter 2
I'm finally starting this critically acclaimed X-Men spin-off TV series, which first aired almost 18 months ago and recently finished a just-as-praised second season. It's certainly an... interesting start. I'll reserve full judgement until I've seen more -- there's a lot going on here!

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2018 World Cup
Semi-Final Croatia v England
Turns out it's not coming home after all.
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]

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2018 World Cup
Semi-Final France v Belgium
When I said I was watching The Football now, I didn't expect it to be all the football. Well, I actually only watched most of the second half, so...
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

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2018 World Cup
Quarter-Final Sweden v England
Guess I'm watching The Football now...
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

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Gilmore Girls
1x01 Pilot [2nd watch]
It's been 5½ years since we accidentally abandoned Gilmore Girls, so rather than try to pick it up -- and struggle to access years-old memories of what was going on -- it felt best just to start again from the start.

Wimbledon 2014
Men's Final Build-Up & Men's Final
Ah well.
[Watch the build-up and the mens' final, plus many other matches, on iPlayer.]

With Wimbledon now over, and most shows on a summer break, hopefully the next few weeks will finally see me make good on the notion of starting all the stuff I need to catch up on.

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How I Met Your Mother
8x23 Something Old
[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]

Wimbledon 2013
I don't imagine you need me to tell you what happened.
[Watch the mens' final, and many other matches, on iPlayer.]

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Dexter
7x10 The Dark...Whatever
Thank goodness they avoided the obvious 'twist' with the fire inspector! Feels like a rare moment of unobviousness for this season, to me. But you can tell the writers know they're getting near the end (this being one of the closing episodes of the penultimate season), what with ditching one of the entire series' main conceits (the clue's in the title).

The Good Life
4x06 Sweet & Sour Charity

Wimbledon 2013
Poor Lisicki, but the way Bartoli played meant she really did deserve it.
[Watch the ladies' final, and many other matches, on iPlayer.]

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Horrible Histories
4x12 Episode 12

Mock the Week
12x01 (13/6/13 edition)
[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]

Queen's
Rally Against Cancer
A charity event from the final day of this year's Aegon Championships tennis at Queen's Club. Featuring Andy Murray and Tim Henman vs Ivan Lendl and Tomáš Berdych, and Murray vs Henman with rotating teammates including Jonathan Ross, Jimmy Carr, Michael McIntyre, Eddie Redmayne, Richard Branson and Boris Johnson. Much hilarity.
[Watch it (again) soon on iPlayer.]

Would I Lie To You?
7x06 Episode 6
[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]

Films

Animalympics (1980)
[#16 in 100 Films in a Year 2013]

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Celebrity Mastermind
2012-13 Episode 7 (of 10)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Little Crackers
3x08 The Ten Year Plan: Fringe to Hollywood
Being Omid Djalili's.

Superstars 2012
[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]

Articles

Secrets of the Olympic Opening Ceremony revealed
by James Gill (from Radio Times)

Children’s author and screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce was the writer of the Olympic Opening Ceremony – a key collaborator with director Danny Boyle in a madcap spectacle that captured the imagination of the world. He talks us through just how they managed it.

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Gates
1x03 Episode 3

London 2012: Our Greatest Team Parade
and
Our Greatest Team: Athletes' Parade Live
The Channel 4 and BBC coverage (respectively) of the TeamGB/ParalympicsGB celebratory parade, which I watched a bit of both of for failed-recording reasons. Worth it for Boris' speech alone.
[Watch the BBC's coverage on iPlayer, and Channel 4's on their Paralympics videos site.]

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The Great British Paraorchestra


London 2012 Paralympics
Day Eleven
Closing Ceremony

That's it! Shame it came to end with a glorified Coldplay gig, but hey, the sport stuff was good. Whatever will we do now?

[Watch archived coverage, including the closing ceremony, on Channel 4's Paralympics site.]

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Doctor Who
33x02 Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

Living up to their blockbustery aims here, I think, with an episode that's technically just as confined to a single facility as last week's but somehow feels grander.

There's an argument to be made it was the perfect evocation of Who: exciting, funny, emotional, subversive, with a clever continuity, and, most of all, utterly barmy. People have picked faults, but most of them are bad natured -- this is about having fun, and it achieves that massively with no serious problems. (Seriously, you're whinging the Triceratops was too slow? Go watch something else, you've missed the point!)

I imagine I'm in the minority, but while I did like Asylum of the Daleks, I properly enjoyed Dinosaurs on a Spaceship. Fun wins.

[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]


London 2012 Paralympics
Day Ten
Final day tomorrow! Final Last Leg tonight! Gonna miss it.
[Watch archived and live (when it's on) coverage on Channel 4's Paralympics site.]

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Batman: The Brave and the Bold
1x07 Dawn of the Dead Man!
1x08 Fall of the Blue Beetle!

London 2012 Paralympics
Day Nine
[Watch archived and live (when it's on) coverage on Channel 4's Paralympics site.]

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London 2012 Paralympics
Day Eight
[Watch archived and live (when it's on) coverage on Channel 4's Paralympics site.]

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London 2012 Paralympics
Day Seven
[Watch archived and live (when it's on) coverage on Channel 4's Paralympics site.]

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London 2012 Paralympics
Day Six
[Watch archived and live (when it's on) coverage on Channel 4's Paralympics site.]