I’m almost willing to forgive it this week, just because there is apparently a big cliffhanger coming up in the show and I imagine it is related to that?
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There is a mid-season cliffhanger story inside but the cover is about a “Forbidden Kiss”.
In the Next Week section they say they have an interview with Celia Pacquola for Rosehaven. Hopefully we get a Rosehaven cover.
Still won’t put “Neighbours” on the cover.
10 doesn’t have the budget to plaster its low rating soap over a magazine like TV Week, SWM does.
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There’s also the fact that Neighbours has been on a multichannel for over ten years, while Home & Away is still on Seven’s main channel.
Of course I don’t particularly care for either show or TV Week (it must be at least a decade since I last purchased this magazine), but find it particularly interesting how Media Spy has managed to make an entire thread out of TV Week Cover Updates!
At least there’s 6 pages of “sports” in the latest issue. 4 pages are a “Basic Olympics Guide”, while 2 pages are basic pieces with Mel McLaughlin and Hamish McLachlan. As there been any “sports-related covers” in the last 20 years?
Has Johanna Griggs been on the cover to talk about the Aus Open Tennis, or has it only been to talk about Better Homes and House Rules?
Well, we don’t particularly care for your comments about TV shows you don’t care about or a TV magazine you don’t purchase. Don’t feel compelled to comment on everything. 
Celia Pacquola on the cover this week.
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None I know of in the last twenty years, only one I can think off the top of my head in the last thirty is Kieran Perkins in 1992, which (naturally) was “Home & Away”-related…
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Good mix of shows/networks, with only 1 reality show and no Home And Away!
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RFDS on the cover this week but of course it’s only Stephen Peacocke from Home and Away on the cover.
‘WHY I HAD TO COME HOME’.
Again? 
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Of course, it is.
pathetic, really.
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They have a number of high profile actors in the cast. You’d think they could have had a group shot or a composite shot with three actors so they could have also had Justine Clarke and Rob Collins, for example.
Clearly magazines featuring Steve Peacocke on the front sell, otherwise they wouldn’t continue flogging him at every opportunity.
Why does this come up every single week?
Whether we like it or not Home and Away (and Steve) sells magazines.
As a business they aren’t going to divert from that when having them on the cover is a proven format.
You can whinge and moan all you like but if you were the manager and had to report monthly sales you’d do the exact same thing.
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Because they make a lot very odd decisions. They’ve had so many covers already about Stephen Peacocke going overseas to find success and even more covers about why he had to come back to Australia. Isn’t that pretty much what most actors do? They work wherever they can get work.
Meanwhile, RFDS is featured in the editor’s column where Stephen Peacocke is the focus and the next four pages where he is also the focus, even though he doesn’t actually have top billing in that series. He also gets a three page interview for the cover story.
Also, there’s a banner across the cover “Remembering Dieter Brummer” and a double page spread at the back.
Oddly, there are no feature stories on Home and Away this week. Usually there’s a four page spread. And there are no spoilers in the Soap Diary section as usual. Was Seven distracted with the Olympics and forgot to send them to TV Week this week? Or wasn’t Home and Away supposed to return next week? I can’t recall this ever happening before.
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‘Why I had to come home’
‘Why I had to leave’
‘XXXX talk about returning’
So unoriginal. At least they could be a bit creative.
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