Entertainment Weekly

https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/entertainment-weekly-print-digital-instyle-1235175928/

As of today, the parent company of Entertainment Weekly has ceased all physical publication (digital only from here on out). February 16th, 2022 would have been their 32nd "birthday" since the first issue was released.

I used to LOVE reading EW when I was growing up. I grew up practically living in a movie theatre (since both of my parents worked at one), and then when I was old enough, I also worked there - and did so for nearly 20 years. There were always copies of EW around. Most of the movie-buff employees subscribed; hell at one point I'm pretty sure our theatre itself had a subscription.

Over the years, the magazine became a straight-up celebrity gossip rag, more akin to People or something (who I believe is owned by the same parent publisher, so that could be why) and it really went off the rails IMHO. It stopped being about the movies, TV, and music, and more just the lives of the celebrities who created them. Content was really poor, and I imagine that affected readership quite a bit.

Anyway, it was a good run, EW. I haven't subscribed in years, but I picked up the latest issue a couple weeks ago while strolling through a Barnes & Noble. I found it hadn't gotten any better than it was a few years ago when I last subscribed, so perhaps this is no big loss to the entertainment world anyway.