We thought that TV Week would show Sonia on the cover, as she’s a Sever personality. And you know, the Gold Logie winner. I guess she has to make a cameo on Home and Away to appear on the cover. Lol
Very odd to not have a post Logies cover like years past.
they’ve moved away from doing so for the last few years. Seems a very odd choice IMO especially around the magazine’s one major event that literally gets everyone engaged, good or bad!
Perhaps they find that the interest peaks on the week of the awards and concentrate on that; a week later, the interest has waned.
Again, TV Week really are up H&A’s arse.
I know that in recent years, they’d have two weeks of the mag calling it the “Logies Collectors Issue”. The first being the issue straight after the Logies - for the Outstanding Awards - and a week later for the Popular Awards. I’ve noticed that the second issue has been shafted as such. A shame, when that’s the awards the public had voted for, and thus should be the more prominent “collectors issue”.
I saw the latest issue yesterday and in the double page interview with Sonia, the main photo of her standing on stage holding the Gold Logie was heavily photoshopped (notice her left leg against the lines of stage floor).
There’s a cameraman behind her and Daryl. There may have been someone else behind her too which spoilt the pic, so they probably snipped them out. Looks shonky, now that you pointed it out.
Do they even care anymore at TV Week?
There has always been some dodgy editing or photoshopping, all the way back to the early days. I’m sure they still care but I guess it’s just a case of not always getting right. I think they may have a lot of like-minded people working there for a long time so the magazine is in a bit of a rut. They may need some new blood or at least try some new things to improve it,
I am sure they do but like everywhere else I imagine they are trying to do a lot with very little resources/time. And I guess that TV Week probably isn’t given the sort of budget that bigger mags like the Women’s Weekly, etc., would have.
Mind you, this came into my email today from TV Week, the top headline:
Forget The Twelve or Colin From Accounts that each won multiple awards, forget all the other shows and people that won, let’s make Home And Away… winner of one award… the big headline/photo
Reminds me of that old Big Girls Blouse skit where they workshopped different magazine headlines for Gary Sweet.
“Gary’s brush with Basil Brush”
Edit - found the clip https://youtu.be/qcOnkj7Xd4c
lovely to see Denise Scott on the cover.
Steve Peacock is not even a main protagonist in RFDS, yet they continue to pull that blood from that ruddy stone. Rob Collins or Justine Clark’s characters, guarantee would have A storylines… but no, let’s cover the overexposed, B storyline character, mainly because he has a strong connection to our BFFs Home and Away… PS editors, Justine was also on YOUR favourite show. 
I would like to see a cover that featured Rob Collins. He is in the cast of so many shows on screen this year or in production. He deserves a cover and we need to see some more diversity on the cover.
Rob Collins has been on screen in Queen of Oz, Ten Pound Poms, Firebite, Limbo and will be seen again in RFDS and Total Control.
Looks good. Not often that a completely new show hers a cover.
Don’t understand why they’ve been using that crooked TV Week logo on the cover for the past few years. Anywhere else you see their logo it’s a square. Strange.
been 10 years now, like a lot of the magazine, it’s time for a refresh. There probably isn’t a budget for one, though.
What would they change it to? Something from the back catalogue?
I think they could just do some minor adjustments that would give the magazine a refresh.
For starters, I would change the logo slightly so it was a rectangle shape. The logo started off as a square with rounded to look like a 1960s TV set. It then had a 3D and colourful look in the 80s. It went to a square when TVs evolved to flat screens. For some strange reason they went to a weird quadrilateral ten years ago. We now have widescreen TVs, so I think a more rectangular shape would be good.
The sections could be reframed too with rectangle shapes rather than the part circles we have now. Also, the titles could use a font that looks like it’s from the 2020s for a fresher look.
