Entertainment Weekly, which was still a thing, is DEAD TO ME

I used to love this magazine. But boy since it went monthly and even before that, it has become dire. Such a shame

I enjoyed their seasonal movie preview issues for many years.

RIP

Disappointing but not a surprise.

It started going to hell the moment Meredith took over publication.

I started reading it from the very first issue. I was still in high school, my mom owned a video store and they sent her the first couple issues free. I subscribed myself all through college and for another 15 years, then on and off up until recently. It became a shadow of its former self but at one time it was a terrific magazine.

They had some great features back in the day. I probably subscribed for a good 12 years, too. Some of the writers were quite knowledgeable and witty, when good writing was still valued. RIP.

I used to devour it the moment I received the latest issue in the mail.

I still subscribe out of habit but honestly only spend about 3 minutes glancing through it.

They've been trying to kill EW for several years now. It lost its snarky but informative style of writing. The cover photos they use are super bland; not ones that are going to grab people while standing in line at grocery store, even the story choices are uninspired.

It's a shadow of its former self. I'm glad to have enjoyed its 20-25 years of glory, but watching it die has indeed been painful.

I found a lot of good mystery novels through their reviews. It was a great resource for keeping up with media.

R4 Me too. I still remember k.d. Lang on the cover of that first issue! Might even still be in a box in the garage somewhere...

Sad, it was fantastic, and always covered obscure shit as well.

According to the article, EW is still a thing, but digitally rather than on paper.

In Style has been going major woke the last few years We went from glamorous attractive and THIN women of all races on the cover to what we’ve had the last few years…

I think they had a Chrissy Metz cover

That old adage, “Go woke and go broke”

Like others in this thread, I was a subscriber from the get-go, and abandoned it when it went monthly. I still have boxes of back issues stored at my parents' home -- I saved all the ones I thought might be collectors' items some day.

And I guess that gift subscription to Health magazine that I purchased for my mother as a Christmas gift (she loves that mag) is now toast.

Ah, this makes me feel old. I used to be so devoted to this magazine, from the first issue. I still get the monthly version--it was a gift--but I skip over most of it. I am not interested in reading celebrity interviews, at least not the way they do them now.

I remember the Golden Age of magazines--EW, Premiere, Movie Line, Spy--I got them all every month.

entertainment weekly, premiere, movieline, world tennis, flex, musclemag, muscular development, REPS, exercise for men, men's workout,

all my favorite magazines are now gone!... the only thing magazines I can pick up now are EMPIRE, Ironman, Tennis, and the occasional magazine of something else like New Mexico or Arizona Highway, etc...

I loved my Entertainment Weekly’s.

R12 That phrase is only old in your peabrain.

Will those, like me, with a print subscription, be getting a refund?

I used to love EW because it had a nice mix of interviews and reviews but also had articles about the business side of the entertainment industry, giving you an insiders view without going too inside like Variety or the Hollywood Reporter. Then for me, EW became more about fluff pieces so I gave up my subscription.

No R19.

You'll be new subs to their next venture "Black Entertainment Weekly".

It really hasn't been interesting for many years. Once Deadline (oh, Nikki Finke) came along and jumpstarted the entertainment sites into the 21st century, it was really duplicating lots of other places.

[quote]Will those, like me, with a print subscription, be getting a refund?

My subscription runs out in June 2022. I imagine they'll just offer us continued access to the website content for free for a while

23 posts. No one cares. Sounds like they made the right decision.

I was a devoted subscriber for many years but abandoned it for good probably 10 years ago. It had been a shadow of its former glory for quite awhile, even before downsizing to monthly editions.

I stopped subscribing over 10 years when they stopped delivering my weekly issue by the weekend. I used to receive it on Fridays and sometimes Saturdays, and then I was receiving in on Mondays or Tuesday. Other magazine subscriptions would arrive on time, so it was EW not the post office. I would still pick up issues when they look interesting.

The last couple of issues were the best they produced since the move to monthly, so naturally they chose now to pull the plug. It was a shadow of its former self, but I'll miss it because there's no other magazine covering the same breadth of pop culture and click-bait web articles don't do it for me.

What r11 said.

It is not going to away, it is just becoming a online only enterprise. Printing physical media is going the way of the dodo.

Instyle Australia would do a flashback feature on star's styles over their careers. It was a dead giveaway to the work they'd had done

It will live forever in dental offices everywhere.

Those bastards! Entertainment Weekly was trying to get me back as a subscriber as recently as a month ago. They would have ripped me off.

They screwed up turning the mag into a stupid "influencer" piece of crap.