Attic Futura is set to launch a teen entertainment magazine based around SM:TV/CD:UK, ITV’s Saturday morning show hosted by Ant and Dec. Called CD:UK, it will launch in February priced £1.80 and targeting a core audience of 14 year old girls, setting it in competition with Top of the Pops, Smash Hits and Live & Kicking and TV Hits.
The Daily Star, under new owners Northern & Shell, is to launch a weekly television listings guide. Startime will be published on Saturdays and contain listings for all satellite, digital and terrestrial programmes as well as cinema, DVD, video and music releases.
Feng Shui for Modern Living, the interiors magazine from Centennial Publishing, is to close just two years after it launched. The latest circulation figure for the title was 38,000, a drop of 27.5% in a year on year analysis and a 218% fall from its high of 121,000 in 1998.
Guardian Unlimited is to present a week of daily online programmes from Monday 18 December featuring writers from the on and offline version of the paper reviewing the year 2000. The programmes will last for 20 minutes and will include Simon Hoggart presenting a round-up of the year’s news stories and Tracey McLeod looking back on media events throughout the year with Big Brother‘s Melanie Hill. Simon Waldman, head of Guardian Unlimited, said: “This experiment shows how we can take the Guardian’s intelligence, wit and authority and add a whole new dimension thanks to the potential of the internet. It is yet another example of our commitment to letting our users access us however and whenever they want.”
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