Obviously a popular template for TV mags at the time, adopted here by the Sunday Sun later in 1989:
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The interesting thing about the UK was that they had a lot of TV magazines back then.
In Australia, we had a lot that came and went and I’m sure the UK did too. I think there was a time when we had three TV magazines on sale at the same time: TV Week, TV Times and TV Guide. They eventually all merged into one.
When I was last in the UK, five years ago, I noticed they still had a few TV mags going but don’t know if they’re all still going. I know TV Times, TV Choice, Inside Soap, TV & Satellite Week and Radio Times (which includes TV guides) are still going.
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I think the UK was opposite to us. I don’t know if I recall this correctly, and I am sure someone will correct me, but while in Australia we had as many as three “national” titles at one point (TV Week, TV Times, TV Guide) plus some local state-based titles like TV Radio Extra (SA) and TV Scene (Victoria), IIRC the UK TV magazine market was just Radio Times (BBC) and TV Times (ITV and later Channel 4) until the late 80s or early 1990s when the market was deregulated, enabling Radio Times to add commercial network listings and TV Times to add BBC listings. And the deregulation saw a whole lot of other mags enter the market, like the ones you mentioned. There was also What’s On TV and TV Quick, from memory.
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Didn’t we have several Soapie Magazines that were in Australia? There was TV Soap Australia. And TV Week Soap Extra. Did Inside Soap ever have an Australian edition, or just from the UK?
Good to see a few TV (and radio) editions that are still going around in the UK.
So, What’s On TV is still going.
Here’s another one I found. Total TV Guide. It was launched in 2003. There once was TV Guide and also Total TV magazine but I don’t know whether they merged into Total TV Guide.
Also, Television is a monthly magazine.
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From Wikipedia.
TV Quick began publication on 30 March 1991 following deregulation of the UK listing magazine market. On 12 May 2010, Bauer announced that it had commenced a 30-day consultation period with its staff about the magazine’s future, and the magazine ceased publication shortly after.
TV Easy was founded in 2005. It’s closure was in 2014 with some features of the magazine being taken on by What’s On TV. The first combined issue went on sale on 30 September 2014.
Soaplife was first published in 1999 monthly, before changing its frequency to fortnightly in 2004 when it underwent a relaunch and increased to weekly in 2018. It ceased production on 26 July 2018.
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Where’s the Tv week? lol.
Far right top row aha
I see we’re not alone in the trash business 
I think the Germans excel in this department too. Look at how many trashy women’s gossip mags they have.
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Who knew that the tv mag market in Poland would be so big. It really puts our market to shame.
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Poland has a population of just under 40m in a densely populated area a fraction of the size of Australia.
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So less than double our population but 8 times the number of TV mags. 
Less to.do in Poland!
I wonder what their Głoska Bezdźwięczna Szpieg (Media Spy) is like?
Our biggest challenge would be distribution over such a wide area for relatively small population. Poland has 40 million people over a land mass about the size of Victoria + Tasmania.
It’s also a state of the EU whereas we are an isolated island. That may have something to do with it too as part of a common market.
