TV Guide Magazine is Also Premier and Movieline

Why wasn't I memo'd about this? I just gave in and subscribed to TV Guide and was startled to get TV Guide Magazine, Premier and Movieline. It wasn't a cheap subscription, but TV Guide is pretty necessary if you have several hundred channels of cable, premium movie channels like HBO, Showtime, and Cinemax. (I know there are other premium movie channels covered in TV Guide but I don't subscribe to them, so I don't care. Sue me on Court TV. Ha!)

I was pretty overwhelmed by the choices on my TV, DVR, and the combination of the two, so I thought I should do a little better job of advance planning. I try to limit my TV watching to an hour or two a day so I kinda hate it when I record, say, The Closer, on my DVR and then decided I wish I'd watched The History Channel. Or vice versa sometimes.

So I decided to subscribe to TV Guide to help me look at what's what. I really did not expect that this subscription would come with two other magazines. Premier is exactly what it sounds like - a magazine about movie premiers. Frankly I'd have subscribed to this magazine all by its self. I love stuff like that.

The other magazine that came with my TV Guide subscription was Movieline. It's more of a gossip magazine, which is really not my sort of thing at all. On the other hand, my wife does love that and seems to enjoy this magazine a lot. So I guess we'll be re subscribing to that too. (I think Atlantas sank because of too many magazines in the bathroom and a pile of Wall Street Journal newspapers stacking in the office. You know?)

So, how is the experiment with TV Guide going? Well, mixed. I've found some new TV shows to experiment with but it hasn't helped me discard old shows. Perhaps that is an internal willpower thing. Duh. I am pleased that I have not watched even one of my last season discarded shows (Hero's, Lost, etc) and have not picked up any of these spiffy looking new season ones. That is leaving me more time to read Permiuer and wish I could actually go to a movie that did not involve a kid flying on a broom or an animated animal from Disney.