''TV Zone'' is a British

magazine A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...

that was published every four weeks by

Visual Imagination Visual Imagination Ltd. was a British company that produced genre magazines. It was founded in 1985 by Stephen Payne and originally only published the science-fiction magazine ''Fantasy Image''. After Payne bought the magazine '' Starburst'' f ...

that covered

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. Initially, it mostly covered

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

, but branched out to cover other

drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...

and

comedy Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term o ...

series.

History

''TV Zone'' was launched in September 1989 by publishers Visual Imagination as a spin-off of their existing title '' Starburst''. Its original and longest serving editor was Jan Vincent-Rudzki and original tagline was "The Magazine of Cult Television" (later "The World's Longest-Running Cult Television Magazine"). Originally, the magazine concentrated solely on

and

fantasy Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving Magic (supernatural), magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy ...

television, but over time it broadened its interests to occasionally include

(mostly through articles by Andrew Pixley) and mainstream drama programmes such as ''

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'' and '' Spooks''. It also covered science fiction

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(mostly in its review section). Tom Spilsbury took over as editor from Jan Vincent-Rudzki in late 2000 and was responsible for issues 136-161, eventually leaving in April 2003 to work on Doctor Who Magazine. The final edition was double numbered as issue 231/232, published in December 2008. The magazine ended when publishers Visual Imagination folded in early 2009. ''TV Zones editors were, in order, Jan Vincent-Rudzki, Lee Binding, Tom Spilsbury and Anthony Brown.

Content

''TV Zone'' contained news, interviews, features and reviews of television (and audio) series and their related merchandise (such as novelisations). It also contained selected UK TV listings; this section was used as the basis of its sister publication ''

Cult Times Visual Imagination Ltd. was a British company that produced genre magazines. It was founded in 1985 by Stephen Payne and originally only published the science-fiction magazine ''Fantasy Image''. After Payne bought the magazine ''Starburst'' fro ...

''.

References

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