TV

Would I Lie To You?
14x10 The Unseen Bits
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Death in Paradise
10x08 Episode 8 [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Doctor Who
39x02 Flux, Chapter Two: War of the Sontarans
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Goes Wrong Show
2x05 The Cornley Drama Festival Part 2 [season finale]
I wasn't convinced this "drama festival" concept would work — I thought it might be too sketch-show-y — but I still enjoyed it on the whole. Bring on series 3, please!
[Watch it (again and again) on iPlayer.]

The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
8x04 Episode 4
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Films

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
[#181 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

this week on 100 Films

Wonders will never cease: there was a new review published to 100 Films in a Year this week!


The Fear of God: 25 Years of “The Exorcist” (1998)

As with almost any documentary about a specific film, your interest in it is likely to depend on your interest in the original film. So, assuming you care to know the behind-the-scenes story of The Exorcist, this is definitely a good film. I get the impression it’s the original source for a lot of interviews and stories that have been repeated around the place; ones that I’ve personally picked up through osmosis down the years. Despite that, I still learnt new stuff

Read more here.


Just the one, though.

Hopefully, more next Sunday.

TV

The Great British Bake Off
12x04 Dessert Week
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Lucifer
6x10 Partners 'Til the End [series finale]
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x26 Week 6: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Richard Osman's House of Games Night
2x06 Group 2: Final [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Royal Wedding (1951)
[#180 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

Collection Count

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

Another load of new additions this week, again thanks to sales. It's made up of two Criterions from the current UK 2-for-£25 offer; three Masters of Cinema titles from Zavvi's 20% off offer; and six Indicator titles from Powerhouse's 5th anniversary sale. That's 11 newcomers — one of them a DVD upgrade (two of them, actually, but in one case I'm hanging onto the DVD for now), so a net total of 10 new titles. That's actually a fairly large increase for a single week, but after last time's record-pushing 13, it's doesn't seem quite so busy.

Oh, and I've landed on exactly 2,700 titles, which is a nice round number. Cool.

Number of titles in collection: 2,700 [up 10]
Of which DVDs: 1,061 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,639 [up 11]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 129 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 6,779 [up 10]
Number of films: 3,154 [up 10]
Number of additional cuts: 235 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 9,115 [no change]
Number of short films: 890 [up 3]

Also this week, it's time for the monthly running time update. Well, it's more than time, because it's two weeks late — making this more like the month-and-a-half-ly running time update...

Total running time of collection (approx.):
487 days, 19 hours, and 8 minutes.
(Up 2 days, 22 hours, and 6 minutes from last month.)

That's a pretty large increase... except it's got 1½ times as many weeks in it as normal, so it's not a fair comparison. Ho hum.

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

The Goes Wrong Show
2x04 The Cornley Drama Festival Part 1
[Watch it (again and again) on iPlayer.]

Lucifer
6x09 Goodbye, Lucifer
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
29x04 Episode 4

Richard Osman's House of Games Night
2x05 Group 2: Week 2
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
8x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Lucifer
6x08 Save the Devil, Save the World
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x25 Week 5: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Richard Osman's House of Games Night
2x04 Group 2: Week 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Blankety Blank
1x05 Episode 5
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Great British Bake Off
12x03 Bread Week
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Lucifer
6x07 My Best Fiend's Wedding
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

TV

The Goes Wrong Show
2x03 There Is No Escape
[Watch it (again and again) on iPlayer.]

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
29x03 Episode 3

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x24 Week 5: Thursday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

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

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.

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.

TV

Lucifer
6x06 A Lot Dirtier Than That
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
29x02 Episode 2

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x20 Week 4: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x18 Week 4: Wednesday
5x19 Week 4: Thursday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
8x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x17 Week 4: Tuesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]