These picks are based upon Turner Classic Movies' US schedule (most also air in Canada).
If you'd like to subscribe to Now Playing, here's the place to go. If the calendar situation turns out to be more of an inconvenience than an enhancement that grade could go down a notch or two.īut I'm very happy with most changes and say great job on the whole. It’s everything I could have asked for except that faintly colored font. Overall I’d grade the new Now Playing guide a B+. I’m sure some will miss the simpler two-page calendar in the middle, but I’m willing to give this a shot. Probably making that damn center-spread more secure! While the staples appear to be the same, Now Playing even seems to have addressed this complaint by moving the now super-sized “At a Glance” calendar away from the center of the magazine, placing it directly after editorial content. I recall responding to said survey, but cannot remember what I pushed for. September 17: Joan Crawford in the 1930s on TCMIt’s interesting to see that the current changes come largely in response to the survey TCM conducted in 2011. Low light and reading glasses recommended. I'm not sure if the type is blending with the accent or if it is just harder to read, but the old bolded black was much better here. For September this is a rather light purple, which made for pretty difficult reading by my eyes. Now Playing says, “we’ve set the actor and director names in a different color so you can easily spot your favorites.” Unfortunately that different color matches the stripe of color accenting the top of the pages. The only improvement I saw as an overall negative was the change in color to the names of actors and directors in the “Movie Listings” section. Heck, some bloggers have made these mysteries their monthly focus in the past and now the guide gives us that info daily, minus the detective work.
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For fans of Ben he seems to make the biggest gains (as he does in all things TCM these days) by moving from a half-page formerly hidden inside the television listings to a full page smack dab between the two elder statesmen.Ī major change comes in TCM now naming their daytime programming themes. September 12: Dickie Moore birthday schedule on TCMMore attention is drawn to the feature articles, including the monthly columns by Robert Osborne, Ben Mankiewicz and Martin Scorsese. Sure enough Now Playing now claims to carry 33% more pages including four new pages of editorial content to add some punch to the larger font used throughout. I noticed something different about my Now Playing guide the day I retrieved it from my mailbox: Extra heft. It is not yet packed enough to recommend as anything more than a companion piece to the television channel, but it’s getting there! If you’ve yet to subscribe to Now Playing I heartily recommend it as the best $13.99 I spend on an annual basis. September's TCM programming will be previewed below, but first a better look at the new Now Playing. TCM is feature packed throughout September, but perhaps their most eye-popping moment occurs not on the screen, but the printed page with September’s unveiling of the new and improved TCM Now Playing Guide.
September 2013 TCM Star of the Month Kim NovakTurner Classic Movies returns to normal programming upon conclusion of its annual Summer Under the Stars celebration early Sunday morning, September 1.
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