Sigh. Why does this not surprise any of us anymore. So, that is 11 pages for Home and Away, that is on an end-of-year-break?
I was going to boycott it again but they do also have a story on the Neighbours wedding on the cover and four pages inside. Should have been the main cover photo this week.
Otherwise the story on The Amazing Race should have had the cover. It’s rating well enough to deserve it.
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It’s nice to see TV Week isn’t the only one to be lacking originality
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Evidently, where TV Week gets its inspiration. 
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Sarah Harris is on the cover this week.
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Of course they have to have another multi-page Home and Away “special” on the actors from that show who have made it in Hollywood. 
As if there aren’t three times as many other actors from other shows who have done the same.
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and the GOLD LOGIE Winner still gets shafted to a small picture. Hmmmm!
Neighbours have produced far more stars that have made it big in the US. Typical bias cr&p from TV Week.
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And right on cue, TV Week has a Home & Away Christmas cover and 14 page photo shoot. That’s right, 14 pages of Home & Away Christmas photos plus the cover. 
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that’s just takin’ the pi$$. Once upon a time their Christmas photo shoots would include personalities from across all networks.
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They have a couple of pages to Carols in the Domain and Carols by Candlelight and a Neighbours Christmas storyline on another page but that’s it for all other Aussie shows.
Some other Christmas photos for shows this week like Call the Midwife, Spongebob, Movies and a Very Brady Renovation. But the imbalance is obvious.
Why can’t they plan ahead with the other photo shoots they do in the months leading to Christmas? They could do one extra Christmas photo when they do all those other photo shoots. Then have a compilation of all those photos for this Christmas issue involving all those other shows. How hard could it be to do one extra photo in a red shirt or dress and some tinsel? 
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Why do you all complain? It’s clearly a seller when they have H&A covers, so they continue. It’s a commercial enterprise which I’m surprised is still going, so of course they want bang for their buck.
I stopped reading it in 2006, I’d say that’s when you should have done so too. It’s just rubbish now.
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TV Week doesn’t seem to got the memo that Nine won last year’s ratings. Perhaps they can latch onto some of Nine’s more popular programs to gain a few new readers.
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You’d think those higher rating shows and celebrities would help them sell more mags too. There was a time when most shows on air would get a TV Week cover if they were successful or on air for a long period of time. Now, very few other shows even get a look in.
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Because it’s mismanaged and they could be making more money from it if it was a better.
If countries smaller than Australia can up to seven TV magazines in the market, it goes to show that they can make money from this sort of enterprise. I think a lot of magazines that have gone out of business in this country just gave up too easily. They just needed to be better and smarter and could have still been around.
If it was better then you’d still be buying it.
I doubt it, I only read it for news and the internet does that now, and a lot faster.
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Let’s be realistic here: TV Week (and other magazines like it in this country) had probably been slowly declining in relevance since Sunday newspapers started publishing their own TV guide liftouts sometime around the 1980s.
In this digital age of multiple sources for program listings and Australian TV industry news, I’m not so sure if TV Week would even still be in publication if it wasn’t for the Logies.
Does this issue have 2 weeks of guidesike previous years? If so, it wont include 7food for the second week, and it will rearrange the guides, again.
And again with h&a on the cover? And with the Christmas shoot? I miss when all of the “network big stars” get dressed up for the annual TV Week Chriatmas editions.
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No it’s just one week. Dec 21-27.
But they don’t do that any more, do they?
I don’t buy it for the program guide. I rarely use it because the EPG is more accurate. I buy it for stories about upcoming new shows and new seasons of favourites. Also the stories about upcoming storylines and behind the scenes info about shows. TV Week still have exclusive stories.
Just unfortunate that it’s so focussed on Home and Away rather than all television shows.
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