TV Guide

Paging all "Ausholes."

Influential TV blogger, columnist, and Smurfs collector Michael Ausiello (whom NYTV profiled back in November) is leaving his longtime home at TV Guide for a new writing gig at Entertainment Weekly, where he will pen a weekly column and contribute to EW.com.

A few weeks ago, Macrovision Solutions Corporation competed a multibillion dollar takeover of Gemstar-TV Guide. Since then, Macrovision executives have reportedly been trying to sell the magazine while holding onto TVGuide.com—where Mr. Ausiello has established himself in recent years as a major force in the entertainment industry.  read more »

Mr. Ausiello has breathed new life into the TV Guide brand by alternately bantering with his fans on TV Guide’s web site and breaking news about the forthcoming plot twists and cast changes. Recently the future of scripted television has turned dark. So too has Mr. Ausiello’s writing.  read more »

TV Guide is making a move.

The periodical’s parent company, Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc., recently signed a multi-year lease for over 85,000 square feet at 11 West 42nd Street, according to a press release. TV Guide’s editorial department and TV Guide Online are among the departments that will be moving. The move, reported by The New York Post earlier today, will happen in December 2007.

Gemstar-TV Guide, which has 300 employees based in New York, currently occupies two floors at the News Corporation building at 1211 Sixth Avenue. In the West 42nd Street building, they will inhabit the 16th and 17th floors and a portion of the 18th, and there will be “a private, internal staircase” connecting the floors.  read more »