How I Met Your Mother
1x03 The Sweet Taste of Liberty [2nd watch]
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
33x07 Episode 7 [season finale]
Richard Osman's House of Games
9x01 Week 1: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Thursday, 22 January 2026
Wednesday, 21 January 2026
TV
Dexter: Original Sin
1x02 Kid in a Candy Store
How I Met Your Mother
1x02 Purple Giraffe [2nd watch]
Richard Osman's House of Games
8x99 Champions Week 2: Thursday
8x100 Champions Week 2: Friday [season finale]
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
1x02 Kid in a Candy Store
How I Met Your Mother
1x02 Purple Giraffe [2nd watch]
Richard Osman's House of Games
8x99 Champions Week 2: Thursday
8x100 Champions Week 2: Friday [season finale]
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Tuesday, 20 January 2026
TV
Richard Osman's House of Games
8x96 Champions Week 2: Monday
8x97 Champions Week 2: Tuesday
8x98 Champions Week 2: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
8x96 Champions Week 2: Monday
8x97 Champions Week 2: Tuesday
8x98 Champions Week 2: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Video Games
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
After yesterday's minor disaster, I almost didn't want to go back to Skyrim today — shocker, I know! I considered finding something else to play for a bit. After all, this is the only game I've really engaged with for months now, and I have hundreds of others in my backlog, dozens of which I'd class as "ones I really want to play" — why not finally make time for them? But I was worried it would end up souring me on Skyrim, so I decided I should get back on the metaphorical horse. And, of course, I love it still.
Saw a thread on Reddit today asking how long it takes to complete. Some replies were estimating times of 60–100 hours to do not just the main quest but also most major side quests. Well, I'm over 123 hours now and still haven't properly started the main quest, nor even begun most of those major side quests, nor even visited several major cities (yes, still — in fact, my tally is still three out of ten). Am I doing it wrong... or am I doing it right? I think the latter.
After yesterday's minor disaster, I almost didn't want to go back to Skyrim today — shocker, I know! I considered finding something else to play for a bit. After all, this is the only game I've really engaged with for months now, and I have hundreds of others in my backlog, dozens of which I'd class as "ones I really want to play" — why not finally make time for them? But I was worried it would end up souring me on Skyrim, so I decided I should get back on the metaphorical horse. And, of course, I love it still.
Saw a thread on Reddit today asking how long it takes to complete. Some replies were estimating times of 60–100 hours to do not just the main quest but also most major side quests. Well, I'm over 123 hours now and still haven't properly started the main quest, nor even begun most of those major side quests, nor even visited several major cities (yes, still — in fact, my tally is still three out of ten). Am I doing it wrong... or am I doing it right? I think the latter.
Monday, 19 January 2026
TV
Dexter: Original Sin
1x01 And in the Beginning...
Finally getting round to this third incarnation of Dexter. We considered skipping over it for Resurrection and coming back to it later, but... well, let's just say the opening mintues proved that would've been a poor decision!
How I Met Your Mother
1x01 Pilot [2nd watch]
Having finished Friends, this seemed like a good replacement. Plus, it's over 16 years since I watched it the first time (I wouldn't have said I'd watched it recently at all, but 16 years! Jesus!) Talking of time, what feels even more insane is that the 'far future year' of the framing device is now just a couple of years off in 2030. Eek.
Richard Osman's House of Games
8x95 Champions Week 1: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
1x01 And in the Beginning...
Finally getting round to this third incarnation of Dexter. We considered skipping over it for Resurrection and coming back to it later, but... well, let's just say the opening mintues proved that would've been a poor decision!
How I Met Your Mother
1x01 Pilot [2nd watch]
Having finished Friends, this seemed like a good replacement. Plus, it's over 16 years since I watched it the first time (I wouldn't have said I'd watched it recently at all, but 16 years! Jesus!) Talking of time, what feels even more insane is that the 'far future year' of the framing device is now just a couple of years off in 2030. Eek.
Richard Osman's House of Games
8x95 Champions Week 1: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Video Games
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
Despite months of play, and now over 120 hours in-game, today I forgot one of the cardinal rules of Skyrim — indeed, of most any game: save regularly. I died in a fight I didn't think was going that poorly, and lost a bunch of progress and some rare loot (at least, stuff I hadn't come across yet) loot. Bit annoying. On the bright side, my horse had also died slightly earlier, and I resigned myself to having to buy another one because it had been so long since my last save (and, yeah, I didn't think to save then! What an idiot), so I got that back for free. Swings and roundabouts, I guess.
Despite months of play, and now over 120 hours in-game, today I forgot one of the cardinal rules of Skyrim — indeed, of most any game: save regularly. I died in a fight I didn't think was going that poorly, and lost a bunch of progress and some rare loot (at least, stuff I hadn't come across yet) loot. Bit annoying. On the bright side, my horse had also died slightly earlier, and I resigned myself to having to buy another one because it had been so long since my last save (and, yeah, I didn't think to save then! What an idiot), so I got that back for free. Swings and roundabouts, I guess.
Sunday, 18 January 2026
TV
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials
Part 1 Bundle of Love
Part 2 Battle Commences
Part 3 The Finger Points [finale]
The latest Christie adaptation, this time on Netflix. Apparently reviews have been mixed, but I thought it was rather good overall, with several neat twists in the final episode.
Part 1 Bundle of Love
Part 2 Battle Commences
Part 3 The Finger Points [finale]
The latest Christie adaptation, this time on Netflix. Apparently reviews have been mixed, but I thought it was rather good overall, with several neat twists in the final episode.
Video Games
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
Set out to do something specific today... then got distracted on the way, to the tune of over an hour's playtime. But where I left off, that's where I'd intended to get to — so, next time.
Ah, good old Skyrim.
Set out to do something specific today... then got distracted on the way, to the tune of over an hour's playtime. But where I left off, that's where I'd intended to get to — so, next time.
Ah, good old Skyrim.
Tabletop Games
Good Puppers!
A couple more rounds of this. Beginning to get the hang of it, I think.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Trick-Taking Game
The sequel's out now — need to get ahold of that.
A couple more rounds of this. Beginning to get the hang of it, I think.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Trick-Taking Game
The sequel's out now — need to get ahold of that.
this week on 100Films.co.uk
A trio of posts kicked off my 100 Films in a Year Challenge on 100Films.co.uk at the start of this week.
First, the overview of the structure for 2026's challenge — which is also my 20th time doing all this:
Then, two posts outlining specific 12-film categories. First up, Blindspot:
Finally, what this year I'm calling "What Do You Mean You Haven’t Seen All the Best Sci-fi, Action, Adventure, Mystery, and Thriller Films?"
Now that 2025 is wrapped up and 2026 is begun, will there be anything to report next Sunday? Probably not. But you never know.
First, the overview of the structure for 2026's challenge — which is also my 20th time doing all this:
Then, two posts outlining specific 12-film categories. First up, Blindspot:
Finally, what this year I'm calling "What Do You Mean You Haven’t Seen All the Best Sci-fi, Action, Adventure, Mystery, and Thriller Films?"
Now that 2025 is wrapped up and 2026 is begun, will there be anything to report next Sunday? Probably not. But you never know.
Saturday, 17 January 2026
TV
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
33x06 Does 90s Pop
Richard Osman's House of Games
8x93 Champions Week 1: Wednesday
8x94 Champions Week 1: Thursday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Slow Horses
5x05 Circus
5x06 Scars [season finale]
33x06 Does 90s Pop
Richard Osman's House of Games
8x93 Champions Week 1: Wednesday
8x94 Champions Week 1: Thursday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Slow Horses
5x05 Circus
5x06 Scars [season finale]
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
I thought some more stuff would turn up this week (I placed an order in the All the Anime sale back in December, but they're doing a terrible job of catching up on those), but nope, not a sausage.
Number of titles in collection: 3,655 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 977 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,678 [no change]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 498 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 8,782 [no change]
Number of films: 4,691 [no change]
Number of additional cuts: 481 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 10,188 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,280 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
I thought some more stuff would turn up this week (I placed an order in the All the Anime sale back in December, but they're doing a terrible job of catching up on those), but nope, not a sausage.
Number of titles in collection: 3,655 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 977 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,678 [no change]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 498 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 8,782 [no change]
Number of films: 4,691 [no change]
Number of additional cuts: 481 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 10,188 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,280 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 16 January 2026
TV
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
33x05 Episode 5
Richard Osman's House of Games
8x91 Champions Week 1: Monday
8x92 Champions Week 1: Tuesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Slow Horses
5x03 Tall Tales
5x04 Missiles
33x05 Episode 5
Richard Osman's House of Games
8x91 Champions Week 1: Monday
8x92 Champions Week 1: Tuesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Slow Horses
5x03 Tall Tales
5x04 Missiles
Thursday, 15 January 2026
TV
Richard Osman's House of Games
8x89 Week 18: Thursday
8x90 Week 18: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
8x89 Week 18: Thursday
8x90 Week 18: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Tabletop Games
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle
Game 7 (of 7)
When we played this 'level' with the Charms and Potions Expansion stuff the other day, we actually only included about half the villains, because there are so many now. So this was the other half.
Game 7 (of 7)
When we played this 'level' with the Charms and Potions Expansion stuff the other day, we actually only included about half the villains, because there are so many now. So this was the other half.
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