Entertainment Weekly is No Longer Weekly

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Entertainment Weekly is going monthly https://t.co/i42gKpJ2Xa pic.twitter.com/JoIvgYvT6h
- Variety (@Variety) June 6, 2019

• Entertainment Weekly is moving to a monthly print schedule.
• Current editorial chief Henry Goldblatt is stepping down after 17 years, and JD Heyman is taking over as editor in chief.
• They are going to produce more digital exclusive

Comments

[ellie_andrews]

it was always one of my favorite magazines and i subscribed for years but i cancelled bc i got tired of the repeat covers. (twilight, walking dead for example)

[wilco0087]

I'm kinda sad about this. It feels like the end of era.

I know print media is on the way out, so it's not completely unexpected but feels like their last stop before irrelevancy.

As far as Buffy issues go, I don't have the last one but I saved the Buffy ending issue and the 20th anniversary issue.

[dman108]

Much like the Chris Kelly quote above, I grew up reading Entertainment Weekly and i absolutely loved it. They were one of the first mainstream publications to really respect Buffy. And i loved their coverage of the teenybopper craze in the late 90s/early 00s.

But a few years ago they went through a revamp where they cut the word count on all the articles, enlarged the font size, and basically became a poor man's people magazine. I haven't read it since but i still appreciate the reunion issues.

[scriptedending]

yeah, I stopped reading (other than the online stuff) around then, too. and the new guy is from People, so I am sure it's only gonna get worse. RIP, thoughtful takes and reviews!

[aristobrit]

They've been going downhill as far as content goes for over the past 10 years. They were basically regurgitating PR fed to them from the studios and networks and had some of the most unqualified and biased critics on their payroll ever. I can remember a couple of photo shoots they did that were so bad they had to apologize to readers.

They came at several things from the wrong direction and I'm not really sad to see this happen at all. Better publications have ceased publication altogether.

[zazie_toujours]

SMG was such an icon

[pciam]

She really was. I honestly thought she'd become a huge movie star after Buffy, too. But she picked a LOT of terrible movie choices and it totally killed her momentum, sadly.

[trancexperiment]

Her still being with FPG after 20 years makes me so happy

[zazie_toujours]

Ikr! Good, bless them both for thinking they could be happy ❤️

[pciam]

It is sad, but unfortunately the magazine has become increasingly irrelevant over the years. I used to be excited to get the magazine weekly, and so much of my entertainment news came from the source. But now with social media and so much competing news in real-time, I get most of my pop culture fix/updates through other sources, (such as ONTD).