TV Guide: Oct. 9-16 Goodbye?
The final small-size edition a true collectors edition and they milk it for all it's worth with 9 different covers. The cover I got has Reba McEntire and Lucille Ball in a two-page cover in identical poses. The other covers are..
- Greg Gumbel & Dan Marino as Philip Michael Thomas & Don Johnson
- The guys from Scrubs as the guys from M*A*S*H
- John Cryer & Charlie Sheen as Tony Randall & Jack Klugman
- Regis & Kelly as I dream of Jeannie stars
- Reba McEntire as Lucille Ball
- Conan O'Brian as Bob Smith
- Jennifer Love Hewitt as Sally Fields
- Homer Simpson as Fred Flintstone
- The cast of The Bernie Mac Show as the cast of Good Times.
A 53-page article accompanies the front cover that is titled Then & Now, they've been publishing in small size for 53 years.
Some Then & Now highlights:
- Matt Roush learn to read and criticize with TV Guide.
- TV Guide as a collectable, the first national issue was April 3, 1953 with Lucille Ball & her baby is $2,000, the most valuable is the January 23, 1953 pre-national only for New York issue with Marilyn Monroe at $3,000. Rouger Hornberger a collector has 4,439 issues missing only 28.
- Interviews with all the cover stars of this issue.
- Fred and Barney were smokers.
- Quotes and pictures from every decade starting in the 50's.
- Cheers was to be set in a hotel.
Other Things inside:
- TV Guide Emmy after party picks.
- Wilmer Valderrama bumped into half a dozen exes at the party.
- Jorge Garcia lost some weight.Josh Hollway showed off his wife.
- Is Vaughn really dead?
- Kirsten Johnson, John Stamos and John Leguizamo will all be on ER, hmmmm, I see a "John" theme. Also about 50 charcters have left ER the most recent were Sara Gilbert and Sherry "I-need-a-break" Stringfield.
- Matt Roush likes Just Legal which was just caneclled.
- It's an 8-day issue
- To keep your TV Guides safe they are pushing a protective TV Guide Jacket for $2.95 each.
Well goodbye small TV Guide with your outdated listings that were never right it's been fun can't wait to see when your big issue fails.
You know, you should get paid for this. I don't even bother reading stuff about TV elsewhere because I can read your blog!
ReplyDeleteIn all seriousness though, FIND A WAY TO MAKE MONEY OFF THIS! Just a suggestion.
Thanks I'm just using my journalism class skills, I only write lab reports and my English skills went to hell until I started this blog.
ReplyDeleteAs for money I've made a little here and there, now I just don't have time to submit.