Nikki Finke ran a post today stating that the seminal-for-whatever-reason TV Guide magazine would be getting the French Revolution style head-chopping treatment today. According to Finke’s “insiders,” heads are rolling like it’s side A of Judas Priest’s Defenders of the Faith, and word is the rag’s new owners are looking to shut ‘er down completely if they aren’t able to find a sucker willing to take the digest off their hands.

This may be sad for some of you, as TV Guide is something of an institution. In that it’s always been there, staring back at us from the super-market magazine rack, tempting us with its catalog of brief loglines, partially-accurate program listings and delightful “Cheers and Jeers” column. But let’s face the facts: In the age of digital cable and TiVo and the internets bringing us the same information except mostly accurate, and 100% free, why does anyone need TV Guide? I know I haven’t even looked at an issue since my TV had a channel knob on it and my dad put tin foil on the rabbit ears to get in something called “UHF.” Besides, it’s not like there’ll ever be a shortage of issues to peruse. Just go to my grandma’s house: it’s filled to the rafters with old TV Guides. And cats. And lacy doilies. And the foul stench of rotting flesh, and the partially decomposed corpse of what used to be my grandma. But don’t tell Social Security about that last part. Let’s just keep those checks a-rollin’… ch-ching!

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