Tuesday, 26 December 2023

TV

Blankety Blank
3x10 Christmas Special [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Richard Osman's Festive House of Games
2x04 Week 1: Thursday
2x05 Week 1: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Shetland
8x04 Episode 4
8x05 Episode 5
8x06 Episode 6 [season finale]
[Watch series 8 (again) on iPlayer.]

Games

The Dragon Staff of Maladoria
23–26 December 2021

Monday, 25 December 2023

TV

Doctor Who
40x00 The Church on Ruby Road [Christmas special]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Not Going Out
13x08 Wilfred [Christmas special]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Richard Osman's Festive House of Games
2x03 Week 1: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

White Christmas (1954)
[2nd watch]

Sunday, 24 December 2023

TV

Blankety Blank
3x08 Episode 8
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Ghosts
5x04 En Français
[Watch the entire series (again) on iPlayer.]

Richard Osman's Festive House of Games
2x01 Week 1: Monday
2x02 Week 1: Tuesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Would I Lie To You?
17x00 At Christmas
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Remember the Night (1940)

Games

The Dragon Staff of Maladoria
20–22 December 2021

this week on 100Films.co.uk

No, your eyes do not deceive you: it's a 100Films.co.uk post that isn't at the start of a month!

Don't get too excited, though — there are no new reviews here. Rather, just a bit of site housekeeping before the end-of-year palaver kicks off.


936 days late, it’s a new Directors banner!
the header image at the top of my Reviews by Director listings page features the top 20 directors featured on this blog — not my 20 favourites, but the 20 with the most films I’ve reviewed — pictured in alphabetical order. Obviously, sometimes the lineup changes; but rather than modify the image every time it does, I’ve always intended to update it about once a year. The last time I did was May 2020, so a new one has been overdue for about two-and-a-half years — or 936 days
Read more here.


More next Sunday, as 2023 comes to a close.

Saturday, 23 December 2023

TV

Blankety Blank
3x07 Episode 7
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Doctor Who
40x0C The Giggle [2nd watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
31x08 Episode 8

Richard Osman's House of Games
7x20 Week 4: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Shetland
8x03 Episode 3
[Watch series 8 (again) on iPlayer.]

Games

The Dragon Staff of Maladoria
15–19 December 2021
Beginning to suspect this last burst of adventure is going to be a tie-in to the 2022 calendar, which I don't have and didn't intend to get (I'm going on to 2024 next, of course). I might be wrong on that count, but it'll be a little frustrating if I'm right...

Collection Count

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

The stars never quite seem to align, do they? This week: the rarity of a new DVD (a free one with a Doctor Who fanzine). And it contains what I'm classing as short films, another infrequently-boosted number. But, despite acquiring quite a few recently, no 4Ks this week. If only a couple of things had moved through the post a bit quicker, there would have been — and then the stars would have aligned and every number in these stats would've gone up. Never mind.

Number of titles in collection: 3,207 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,021 [up 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,186 [up 1]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 318 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 7,827 [up 4]
Number of films: 3,943 [no change]
Number of additional cuts: 349 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,668 [up 3]
Number of short films: 1,109 [up 3]

Oh, and as for the "nine new releases" I mentioned were expected last week? The grand total to have now turned up is... two. Will the remaining seven turn up before the end of the year? They bloody well should, but I wouldn't put money on it.

See you next week, faithful reader, for the final tally of the year!

Friday, 22 December 2023

TV

Death in Paradise
12x00 Christmas Special 2022
Catching up with last year's Christmas special just before this year's... except I've got a whole series to go before I can watch that. Maybe I'm destined to be a year behind forever, now...
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Ghosts
5x03 Pineapple Day
[Watch the entire series (again) on iPlayer.]

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
31x07 Episode 7

Richard Osman's House of Games
7x18 Week 4: Wednesday
7x19 Week 4: Thursday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Shetland
8x01 Episode 1
8x02 Episode 2
[Watch series 8 (again) on iPlayer.]

Games

The Dragon Staff of Maladoria
7–14 December 2021
I wanted to get a little ahead, but I didn't mean to play three days' worth! But that's because these days contain the climax to the story and a few quick days of resting and whatnot. And yet, there's still two-and-a-half weeks of the calendar to go. What will happen?!

Wednesday, 20 December 2023

TV

Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story
David Tennant reads the Cbeebies Bedtime Story... but in character as the Doctor, which... makes this canon? Hm.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Murder, They Hope
2x02 A Midsummer Night's Scream
2x03 The Unusual Suspects [season finale]

University Challenge
Christmas 2023 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Podcasts

Light the Fuse - The Official Mission: Impossible Podcast
2x21 Back into the Unknown with Arthur Anderson Part 2

Games

The Dragon Staff of Maladoria
29 November — 3 December 2021
Into the final month!

Tuesday, 19 December 2023

Monday, 18 December 2023

TV

imagine...
Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
This was fantastic. A great reminder of how much important TV RTD has created, and also how important that TV has been. Doctor Who is beyond lucky to have someone of that calibre in charge.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]