Quick TV and Gossip (TV Quick)

Member Name: Nickycool

Product:	TV Quick
Date:	22/06/05 (689 review reads)
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Advantages: packed full of gossip and a tv guide

Disadvantages: the price could be lower

TV Quick

I always love going to my grans and reading the TV Quick. It’s a great TV mag but also a good long read too.

What is TV Quick?
It’s a TV magazine with a difference. It’s got the normal TV guide that every TV mag has but then there’s the extras like all the celeb gossip and interview with soap and tv celebs.

The price
65p which is quite a lot for TV mag but it’s not just a TV mag. It’s a mini version of Heat so I think the price is quite reasonable.

FRONT COVER
There’s the usual TV QUICK red and white logo. Normally on the front cover of the TV Quick, there’s a soap star that’s going to be in a main storyline that week. For example, Sally’s sexy secret. Underneath the face of the soap star, there’s some smaller soap headliners like The moon brothers join the Square and It’s all going wrong in Emmerdale then there’s some other small headlines about other TV programmes.
CONTENT
There’s a list of the content with all the normal publishing info as well.
THIS WEEK TV QUICK LOVES …
A varied assortment of TV programmes that are shown that week. Like best picks of the week

TV PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
* There’s always a quick interview on famous people or not so famous reality celebs. Asking questions like What’s your favourite TV show? What do you normally do after filming on set?
* A lot of pictures and quotes of famous people
* STAR OF THE WEEK, which shows a person that’s on a TV and tell you a bit about them and what they have been in previously.
* STOP PRESS, which is about big showbiz news of that week
* FROCKY HORROR CELEBS, which is pictures of badly dressed celebs
* Triple Take where they put two pictures of a celeb with a plus sign between it and equals another celeb which looks like a cross between the two
* TELL US A SECRET. The title speaks for itself. It’s a section where a celeb tells TV Quick a secret.
* I COULDN’T LIVE WITHOUT … The title speaks for itself as well. Where a celeb tells you what they couldn’t live without. Sometimes this section changes to some other question.
* ON THE RED CARPET which is pictures of woman in dress at premieres and big celebrity dos when they walk onto the red carpet

THE SOAP
Eastenders, Correnation street, Emmerdale, Neighbours, Home and Away, Hollyoaks and Family Affairs.
All about the main storylines that are happening that week and then in a little box underneath the smaller ones that are going on in the soaps.

FEATURES
There’s normally about 3-5 interviews with celebs and one interview with an ordinary person in different formats
* MY LIFE OF TV which is about a normal person that’s on TV that week telling their story
* IN MY ROOM – A celeb that talks about their room and the items in it and their meaning to them or the story behind it
* ME & MY FOOD – A celeb talks about the food they love and a certain dish they adore and then they give you the recipe on how to make it aswell
TV FILMS
* THE WEEKS BIG FILM – which is on a non digital channel and consider the best film to watch that week
* DIGITAL PREMIERE OF THE WEEK – which is consider the best premiered film on digital that week
Then there’s a picture and the film name and time at the side
* Best Epic
* Best War movie
* Best family film
* Best Thriller
* Best True Story
Then it gives you the list and sysopnis of all the films from Saturday to Friday

TV GUIDE
MAIN PAGES
BBC 1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4 and Five all in different colours - the list for the day –2 pages – Has 2 top picks every day – Each day coloured colour coded
DIGITAL PAGES
4 pages - No top picks just the list of showings for the day - All channels have different colours.

After the main TV guide, there’s something called the COFFEE BREAK
GAMES
* Showbiz anagrams – unscramble the letter to find …
* Who are they? – unjumble pictures to guess who the two stars are
* Screen search – search for the words listed
£1000 crossword – send it in and win £1000

YOUR LETTERS
People send in letters about TV shows and they pick a handful and publish them. The star letter gets £25.

RUSSELL GRANT YOUR WEEK IN THE STAR
All your horoscopes for the week. Quite some interesting ones there. Russell Grant isn’t a bad predictor.

TRISHA
Always at the back of TV QUICK, you’ll find Trisha. People who have sent in their problems get published and Trisha tries to help them by giving her advice.
Below Trisha’s comments is always NEXT WEEK What the main soap story it will be and some of the features.

Overall Comment
I love this TV guide because not only does it give my info on TV shows and soap but it tells me a bit of news on what’s been happening to our celebs over the past week and I love the horoscope as they always seem to work for me. All in all this is a great TV mag for anyone that buys Heat or love little bit of gossip now and again.
For 65p a week, it’s not too bad as it’s hardly has any adverts (I mean compared to other magazines. They have to get the money to publish from somewhere and that somewhere is ads) in it and you get the lastest news and a TV guide.

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