Monday, 1 November 2021

TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x23 Week 5: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Sunday, 31 October 2021

TV

Doctor Who
39x01 Flux, Chapter One: The Halloween Apocalypse
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x22 Week 5: Tuesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Search for Danger (1949)
[#179 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
The final Falcon film. The series doesn't exactly go out on a high, but it's the best of the three starring John Calvert.

Saturday, 30 October 2021

TV

Blankety Blank
1x04 Episode 4
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x21 Week 5: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Going in Style (2017)
[#178 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

Collection Count

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

And this week, we're back in "biggest ever" territory — although it's not quite a record-breaker.

The week started off normally enough, with three new releases arriving on Monday. I say "normal", but I don't think I typically buy that many new releases on any given week (although, as their arrival tends to get spread across Friday–Tuesday nowadays, the impact is normally diluted, so...)

But then I caved to Arrow's Shocktober sale. Try as I might to cut down my order, I went for a whopping 9 titles. Those all arrived this morning... and Arrow threw in one for free, apparently (I don't know if that was a mistake on their end or a deliberate free gift, but it's a title I don't own, so...)

Altogether, that's 13 new titles this week — and every one of them brand-new to my collection, too; no upgrades.

How does that compare to the spate of "biggest week[s] ever" I had in the middle of 2020? It's up there amongst them, but, as I said, not a record-breaker: my biggest-ever increase remains in April 2020, when 18 new additions made net +16 increase in titles. And before that, there was a +14 in July 2011. There were a couple of other weeks in March 2020 where I received 13 new titles, but with upgrades and whatnot they came down to +11 or +12 — so you could say this week settles into 3rd place.

Anyway, here are the numbers...

Number of titles in collection: 2,690 [up 13]
Of which DVDs: 1,062 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,628 [up 13]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 129 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 6,769 [up 20]
Number of films: 3,144 [up 15]
Number of additional cuts: 233 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 9,115 [no change]
Number of short films: 887 [up 1]

It was also meant to be the monthly running time update this week, put off from last week; but with so many titles arriving just this morning, I just don't have the time today to work it out. Of course, that means the backlog of titles I need to add in is just getting bigger! But hopefully I'll work it out for next week — by which time it'll be the month-and-a-half-ly running time update. Hey-ho.

See you then, faithful reader.

Friday, 29 October 2021

Thursday, 28 October 2021

Wednesday, 27 October 2021

Tuesday, 26 October 2021

TV

The Great British Bake Off
12x02 Biscuit Week
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x16 Week 4: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Monday, 25 October 2021

TV

Blankety Blank
1x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x15 Week 3: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Collection Count

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

Another belated count this week, primarily because it was meant to be the monthly running time update but I haven't had time to work it out. So, that's bumped to next week, and here's just last week's new additions — of which there were five, but three were upgrades.

Number of titles in collection: 2,677 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,062 [down 2]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,615 [up 4]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 127 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 6,749 [up 5]
Number of films: 3,129 [up 3]
Number of additional cuts: 232 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,115 [no change]
Number of short films: 886 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Sunday, 24 October 2021

TV

Death in Paradise
10x07 Episode 7
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Goes Wrong Show
2x02 The Most Lamentable...
[Watch it (again and again) on iPlayer.]

Lucifer
6x05 The Murder of Lucifer Morningstar
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x14 Week 3: Thursday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
[#177 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

Saturday, 23 October 2021

TV

Blankety Blank
1x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Grantchester
6x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]

Lucifer
6x04 Pin the Tail on the Daddy
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x13 Week 3: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Friday, 22 October 2021

TV

The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
8x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Leverage
3x15 The Big Bang Job
3x16 The San Lorenzo Job [season finale]

Lucifer
6x03 Yabba Dabba Do Me
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Films

Dune (2021)
[#176 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
aka Dune: Part One

Thursday, 21 October 2021

TV

The Great British Bake Off
12x01 Cake
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Lucifer
6x02 Buckets of Baggage
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x11 Week 3: Monday
5x12 Week 3: Tuesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Wednesday, 20 October 2021

TV

The Goes Wrong Show
2x01 Summer Once Again
Nothing else makes me laugh as much as this show. It's so silly and often predictable, and yet utterly hilarious.
[Watch it (again and again) on iPlayer.]

Lucifer
6x01 Nothing Ever Changes Around Here
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Richard Osman's House of Games Night
2x03 Group 1: Final
[Watch House of Games Night (again) on iPlayer.]

Tuesday, 19 October 2021

TV

Leverage
3x14 The Ho Ho Ho Job
Very much a "Christmas special" kinda episode. I probably should've saved it for December.

Richard Osman's House of Games Night
2x01 Group 1: Week 1
2x02 Group 1: Week 2
The first series of House of Games Night was basically "the same, but on in the evening". This time, at least they've tried to make it more obviously different, with a new set, an audience, and distinct rounds. So that's nice.
[Watch House of Games Night (again) on iPlayer.]