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Entertainment Weekly  magazine has come to my home for years, along with four other regular magazines and three newspapers. That may not happen for much longer. EW is supposed to be a weekly magazine, but more often than not it has been a bi-weekly because they have been producing many double issues. It’s hard enough when Reader’s Digest combines two months of issues into one twice a year: the content is not twice as big, so I usually end up waiting seven weeks or more for the next issue. Need I tell you I tend to devour articles?

When a magazine covers the entertainment world, a lot can happen in two weeks, and the content may be larger to compensate, but they constantly play catch-up, especially with big events or celebrity deaths. They probably hope that their sister publication, People, can take up the slack, and I’m sure they hope most EW readers get both publications, but that mag is more of a mashup issue with true crime and inspirational stories thrown in with the entertainment, so for me it isn’t the same.

I flipped through the new issue, which is another double covering the new television season. The information was cut short because they are also delving into streaming series on services I can’t access or don’t feel are worth the money to get, so the regular network articles suffered. After reviewing some of the series which captured my interest via their commercials, I don’t feel I know any more about them now.

The magazine recently changed some staff, so it may be undergoing growing pains, but I miss the wealth of knowledge reaching my mailbox every week. Or change the name.