I miss the old Guide as well. It was always welcome in my mailbox once a week and I actually looked forward to it. While the listings were good, it was the articles about TV that I really liked. Not to mention Cleveland Amory's reviews!

TV Guide is still published in the U.S. but it's a shadow of its former self. Only national listings, no local. Two-three weeks of them, to cut down on publishing costs. And only token articles, some of them only a paragraph or two. There are few preview pages of "What's On," which can be useful but only if you can get the stations they're referring to. The web really did them in, because there's so many places you can find this stuff.

Still, if you're really nostalgic for the old red logo, you can actually subscribe to it online - although there are no Canadian listings, only U.S. cable and generic networks are there, and you won't see much about mornings or afternoons. It's available at a relatively reasonable price through an online magazine site called "Magzter."

Here's a sample of Monday night's primetime line-up. 


 

I honestly can't think of one that still does, at least locally. But I rarely see the Sun or the Post, so I plead ignorance about it. Are there are movie listings anymore, either? Or radio schedules, for that matter? The one below is from 1981, when I suppose, it still mattered. Notice most of what's there is from the CBC.

 

RadioActive wrote:

I miss the old Guide as well. It was always welcome in my mailbox once a week and I actually looked forward to it. While the listings were good, it was the articles about TV that I really liked. Not to mention Cleveland Amory's reviews!

TV Guide is still published in the U.S. but it's a shadow of its former self. Only national listings, no local. Two-three weeks of them, to cut down on publishing costs. And only token articles, some of them only a paragraph or two. There are few preview pages of "What's On," which can be useful but only if you can get the stations they're referring to. The web really did them in, because there's so many places you can find this stuff.

Still, if you're really nostalgic for the old red logo, you can actually subscribe to it online - although there are no Canadian listings, only U.S. cable and generic networks are there, and you won't see much about mornings or afternoons. It's available at a relatively reasonable price through an online magazine site called "Magzter."

Here's a sample of Monday night's primetime line-up. 


 

I know you and I have always looked forward to the "FALL PREVIEW" issue. It was always filled with full details of each new show plus any significant changes to returning series. Is there still such an issue? I know TV Guide has an archive of all their covers going back to 1953. It is unfortunate that there is no archive for the articles and fall preview issues. I remember seeing one cover from 1958 with the headline "Your next television set could be hanging on the wall" That would have been an interesting read.

They do still publish a Fall Preview issue, which is generally their biggest seller of the year. But it's not just one edition. It's multi-part to encourage sales. So you get the Fall Preview. And then two weeks later, you get the Changes To Existing Shows edition. And then after that, they usually do a "Waiting In The Wings," outlining shows coming in the so-called second season later in the year. So they milk it for all that it's worth. 

(They also do an all-streaming preview, but they recently launched a new streaming TV Guide, so I'm guessing most of those efforts will go into that next year.)

I've seen some of the Fall Preview issues and they pale in comparison to what you remember. Barely a page for each new show and sometimes not even that. It's compact, short and there's more picture than text to tell you what each new show is actually about. It's a literal shadow of its former self. And you can find better, more detailed info at sites like TV Line or TV Insider (The latter, ironically, is run by TV Guide.)

They've also taken to grouping the shows into genres - comedy, drama, reality etc. - rather than days of the week, as was the practice in the past.  

Here's a sample page from the most recent F.P. issue: