Admittedly they are limited with what they can change it to given that the design also has to accommodate the Logie award design. But there must be something they can do, not necessarily to rehash the whole look but just a tweak. Even just using different colours on the masthead instead of the same red every week. Different colours can attract people’s attention.
And the program listings in their current design/template are no longer fit for purpose with the current channel suite now available. It’s bad enough in metro editions I can’t imagine how messy it is in regional editions.
I used to be an avid TV Week collector from 2005-2013 (still have all the Neighbours front cover ones (there’s not many, so I don’t have many left!)). I distinctively remember these three design changes that they tried during the Late 00’s early 10’s, but they more or less went back to their previous styles.
Late 2007 - mid-2008 (The square boxes and typewriter fonts)
it has evolved to be modernised over the years but essentially there always has to be a square or screen-shaped fixture for a prominent logo. Which limits the possibilities for the magazine a little.
TV Guide has a very good online archive of all theeir past issues. It’s very interesting how the cover is treated as an honour and many different shows seem to have been featured in the past. You can see that a lot of cast members of popular and quality shows have featured. And they’re not like clickbait covers which mimic women’s gossip mags. If only TV Week was more like that.
And we were recently talking about the logo. Intersting to see how the TV Guide logo has evolved to match TV screen shapes and sizes. Their current logo is like a flat, widesceen.
Wow, thank you so much for putting up the link for the TV Guide US Covers. Quite an interesting look.
I’ve only had a quick glance it, but what i’ve seen, there’s been alot of different shows on the cover in recent years. They have the odd “Yearly Previews”, “Fall previews” and “holiday previews” editions. They also have a few editions over the years where sports are on the cover (NFL), unlike here where sport covers are “forbidden”.
I hadn’t realised that that mag is out fortnightly.
They can’t help themselves. The week Neighbours is back, they have to shove HAA on the cover after weeks of it not being the main story… coincidence? I think not.
That’s about the ninth this year alone. 
