25 years of What’s On TV Christmas covers in the UK:
https://twitter.com/sebparkinson/status/1738703629349998857
And we say TV Week is repetitive 
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‘Time to bust out “Together at Christmas” again.’
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That’s where TV Week must get their inspiration from. 
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Good cover. So they have the double issue this week.
An actual good cover.
I get why they’ve been doing a “bumper issue” with a two week guide over this period, over the year few years.
it might have been better to have the double issue with the last issue (i.e. have it December 23-Jan 5). Because of the Thursday release of this issue, potentially no mail deliveries tomorrow (Aus Post deliveries usually have a day off on NYE or the last business day of the year) plus the Monday holiday, this one will likely not arrive with subscribers until middle of next week.
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It is actually a joint photoshoot and interview with Shirvo and Nat.
I take back what I said, my issue arrived in the mail today. Surprising me from both Magshop and Aus Post! Magshop must have put the subscription copies to post in advance, as I can’t imagine it got here from Sydney overnight, and I was surprised that AP was actually delivering mail today.
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In 2009, TV Week did a “top 50 Aussie TV characters” list. It appears to have been determined just by TV Week itself, not clear if it had reader involvement. This is the list below, including where some characters are again ranked in 2023.
50 - Bobby Simpson (Nicolle Dickson), Home And Away
49 - Napoleon “Boney” Bonaparte (James Laurenson), Boney
48 - Frank Holloway (Colin Friels), Water Rats
47 - Nell Mangel (Vivean Gray), Neighbours
46 - Emma Plimpton (Rebecca Gibney), The Flying Doctors
45 - Con The Fruiterer (Mark Mitchell), The Comedy Company (#48 in 2023)
44 - Drazic (Callan Mulvey), Heartbreak High (#61 in 2023)
43 - Mrs Hopkins (Lois Ramsey), The Box
42 - Pixie-Anne Wheatley (Magda Szubanski), Fast Forward (#76 in 2023)
41 - Reg Reagan (Matthew Johns), The Footy Show NRL
40 - Miss McKenzie (June Salter), The Restless Years
39 - Peter Church (Peter Phelps), Stingers
38 - John Quinnet (Maurie Fields), Bellbird
37 - Kim Craig (Gina Riley), Kath And Kim (#5 in 2023)
36 - Evan Wylde (Samuel Johnson), The Secret Life Of Us (#80 in 2023)
35 - Bluey Hills (Lucky Grills), Bluey
34 - Agro (Jamie Dunn), Agro’s Cartoon Connection/Wombat (#42 in 2023)
33 - Alex Taylor (Jeremy Sims), Chances
32 - Wheels (Marcus Graham), E Street (#87 in 2023)
31 - Effie Stephanidis (Mary Coustas), Acropolis Now (#56 in 2023)
30 - Diver Dan (David Wenham), Seachange (#78 in 2023)
29 - Paul Robinson (Stefan Dennis), Neighbours (#25 in 2023)
28 - Nudge (Christopher Truswell), Hey Dad
27 - Steve “Mickey” McClintock (Gary Sweet), Police Rescue (#62 in 2023)
26 - Strop (John Cornell), The Paul Hogan Show (#63 in 2023)
25 - Don Finlayson (Joe Hasham), Number 96
24 - Roberta Williams (Kat Stewart), Underbelly
23 - Micheal Rafferty (John Wood), Rafferty’s Rules
22 - Grace Scott (Cornelia Frances), The Young Doctors (#83 in 2023)
21 - Claire McLeod (Lisa Chappell), McLeod’s Daughters (#23 in 2023)
20 - Terri Sullivan (Georgie Parker), All Saints (#18 in 2023)
19 - Ossie Ostrich (Ernie Carroll), Hey Hey It’s Saturday (#29 in 2023)
18 - Grace Sullivan (Lorraine Bayly), The Sullivans (#75 in 2023)
17 - Mike Moore (Rob Sitch), Frontline (#100 in 2023)
16 - Danni Francis (Paula Duncan), Cop Shop (#85 in 2023)
15 - Kylie Mole (Mary-anne Fahey), The Comedy Company (#46 in 2023)
14 - Alf Stewart (Ray Meagher), Home And Away (#1 in 2023)
13 - Aunty Jack (Graeme Bond), The Aunty Jack Show (#81 in 2023)
12 - Charlene Robinson (Kylie Minogue), Neighbours (#27 in 2023)
11 - Joan ‘The Freak’ Ferguson (Maggie Kirkpatrick), Prisoner (#26 in 2023, + Pamela Rabe)
10 - Ja’mie King (Chris Lilley), We Can Be Heroes (#49 in 2023)
9 - Maggie Beare (Ruth Cracknell), Mother And Son (#41 in 2023)
8 - Maggie Doyle (Lisa McCune), Blue Heelers (#16 in 2023)
7 - Bev Houghton (Abigail/Vicky Raymond), Number 96 (#91 in 2023)
6 - Ted Bullpitt (Ross Higgins), Kingswood Country/Bullpitt! (#52 in 2023)
5 - Skippy, Skippy The Bush Kangaroo (#11 in 2023)
4 - Norman Gunston (Garry McDonald), The Norman Gunston Show (#66 in 2023)
3 - Kath Day-Knight (Jane Turner), Kath And Kim (#3 in 2023)
2 - Patricia “Pat The Rat” Hamilton (Rowena Wallace), Sons And Daughters (#60 in 2023)
1 - Molly Jones (Anne Tenney), A Country Practice (#34 in 2023)
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Another year, and shock horror with what is on the cover…
So nothing has changed…
Surely, Deborah Mailman, an Aussie Television icon, could have appeared as the main photo for the return of Total Control, instead of being a small photo in the corner… Or be risky and have Gladiators on the cover, with its big launch that week…
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and that’s just to describe the horrendous photoshop for that cover image
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They did a photo shoot with the Gladiators hosts last week. A shame that one of those photos weren’t used as a cover.
Surprising that they also have not featured Deborah Mailman and Rachel Griffiths on a cover together. Both have starred in numerous TV series and are popular with TV Week readers.
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Colin Fassnidge on the cover this week. Noticed that the price has gone up to $5.80 permanently since the double issue.
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sneaky 
Existing Subscribers pay about $3.30 per issue, lower if they selected auto-renew. Existing subscribers aren’t impacted by cover price rises made over the course of their subscription.
However, now with a cover price rise, new subscribers now pay about $3.65 a week.
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So the big headline is Colin Fassnidge had a health crisis. In the story he says he had stomach problems and the doctor thought he might have had a bowel cancer. He say he needed an operation but had to wait two weeks so that was scary. Then he just says “Lucky it was something else”. Why would you make that the headline story and then not bother to explain what it was? 
Meanwhile, the Neighbours previews have been running a week behind for the past two weeks. So the “upcoming storyline” has already happened.
Because that’s how clickbait works, even on magazine covers. You don’t have to deliver a story you just have to get attention.
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Kitty Flanagan finally gets a cover. 
Of course whatshisface manages to get squeezed in there like every year’s preview edition.
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