Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly is a magazine published by Time Warner in the United States which is dedicated to the world of celebrity and popular culture. Unlike other tabloids, EW focuses on the works within pop culture, rather than on the celebrities themselves.

Typical Content

Like most magazines, There are usually a number of ads within the first few pages, followed by a table of contents and a letters to the editor section.

Related Topics:
Table of contents - Letters to the editor

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News and Notes

This is a section of smaller articles about dealing with recent events. The whole section typically runs 8 to 10 pages long, and features several specific recurring sections:

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• The Hit List, written each week by critic Dalton Ross, highlights ten major events, with short comedic commentaries by Ross. Typically, there will be some continuity to the commentaries.
• The Deal Report, written by Michelle Kung, highlights business deal and signings that have recently taken place. The section is separated by medium, but within each section separate events are separated only by ellipses. There are also typically an number of headshots of persons under discussion, as well as one full body shot.
• The Fever Chart is a small infographic showing six events, ranked on their impact by temperature.
• The Style Sheet is a full page devoted to celebrity style.
• The Monitor is a single page devoted to major events in celebrity lives. It is very tabloid-like in nature, highlighting events like weddings, illnesses, arrestes, court appearances, and deaths. Deaths of major celebrity are typically detailed in a full page obituary titled Legacy.

Feature Articles

There are typically four to six major articles within the middle pages of the magazine. These articles are most commonly interviews, but there are also narrative articles as well as lists.

Related Topics:
Interviews - Narrative articles

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The Must List

This is a one page section highlighting ten things (books, movies, songs, etc.) that the editors love from the week.

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Reviews

There are seven sections of reviews in the back pages of each issue. In addition to reviews, each has a top sellers list, as well as numerous sidebars with interviews, or small features.

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The sections are:

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• Movies will typically feature all of the major releases for that weekend, as well as several independent and foreign films that have also been released. Lisa Schwartzbaum and Owen Gleiberman are the two primary movie critics.
• DVD & Video rates recently released DVDs on both the quality of the film, and of the DVD extras. Generally they avoid rating the films themselves, unless it is something that was not recently in theaters.
• Television Reviews made-for-TV movies and new series, as well as some television specials. There is also a section of sound bites featuring quotes from various television shows.
• What to Watch, written by Alynda Wheat, features brief one or two sentence reviews of several TV shows on each night of the week, as well as one slightly longer review, usually written by someone else, with a Letter grade.
• Music reviews major album releases for the week, divided by genre. There is also typically at least one interview or feature, as well as a section called "Download This," highlighting several singles available for download on the internet.
• Books features reviews of books released during the week. Sometimes, authors will write guest reviews of other works. There is also typically one interview or spotlight feature in this section per issue.
• Theater (Not in every issue) reviews shows currently playing, divided by the city where they are running.

The Back Page

The final (non cover) page of the magazine is devoted to a different feature each week. The features include:

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• The Pop of King, Stephen King's column, where he discusses various aspects of pop culture, including movie or book recommendations among other things.
• Stupid Questions with..., a short interview, usually with a comedian or comic actor, featuring witty, irrelevant, or playfully insulting questions.
• The Great American Pop Culture Quiz has been running for the Magazine's 15th anniversary. The quiz features trivia questions about pop culture from a specific year. Each time the quiz is published, they highlight another year that the magazine has been in publication.