Inside Soap

Advantages: Packed with top storylines, gossip, news and pics
Disadvantages: a few too many adverts, and not all will appreciate the spoilers!

...plots. Then I discovered The Inside Soap magazine. *The Magazines Producer* Inside Soap is published by Hachette Filipacchi UK Ltd, and currently has a portfolio of nine other magazines, including Sugar, Elle and All About Soap. Hachette Filipacchi is a subsidiary of Hachette Filipacchi Medias (HFM), who is the world’s leading publisher. They currently publish over 230 titles and sell over a billion copies worldwide. Inside Soap is currently edited ...
...all about* Inside Soap is one of the biggest selling soap magazines, providing readers with the latest storylines, news, gossip, and future spoilers on their favourite soaps, including some not produced in the UK. They currently review some of the top name soaps including: EastEnders Coronation Street Emmerdale Family Affairs Neighbours Home and Away Hollyoaks Bad Girls The Bill *So what’s in it? * There’s a regular list of items that ... Read review

Advantages: A satisfying read for soap junkies!
Disadvantages: Gives away major plot lines

...get this is to purchase Inside Soap magazine weekly. This magazine covers a week from Saturday to Friday and goes on sale the Tuesday before. It costs 1 pound (sorry pound sign is broken) and is available from all good newsagents, petrol stations and WHSmith. It is a thin magazine normally displayed with the TV listing magazines and is a little smaller than A4 size. It contains on average 90 pages with only a few of those being taken up by adverts. ...
...Regular features = Inside Info This is a section of about 3 pages with short articles about characters, sets, actors/actresses and classic quotes. Caught in the act This is 2 pages of photos the stars would rather you didn't see! Not in that way you filthy lot (tsk tsk)! Even celebrities aren't all photogenic and these pictures show some caught off guard! They regularly give me a chuckle. Soap ... Read review

Advantages: All the plots in advance, must read!
Disadvantages: Some people don't like the spoilers, too many adverts

Inside Soap Magazine is an absolute must for any soap fan! It gives you all the information you could need on upcoming plots that you just can't wait till it's aired to find out about. It's also great if you're going away or unable to watch the shows, so you can still catch up on everything that has happened. Inside Soap has all the plots and a 7 day TV guide a week in advance, which can be annoying that you have to keep the previous weeks magazine ...
...you can buy it from; inside gossip, kiss and telly, films/books etc realised that week; puzzles and competitions; horoscopes relating to soap stars; letters and request spot, where you can write in and ask questions about soaps, e.g a character you recognise from other soap but can't quite think what else they have been in; and times of our life, which is a look back at a previous issue of the magazine. The contents page is divided into 7 sections ... Read review

Advantages: keeps me up to date with all the soaps
Disadvantages: number of adverts

...at the minute. Yep, Inside Soap magazine satisfies my cravings for soap operas and gossip (well what did you think I was addicted too?). Published fortnightly by Attic Futura (UK) Ltd, Inside Soap costs £1.20 every fortnight and contains all the information you need about what is happening in the world of soap operas for the coming two weeks. The issue that I currently have is for the fortnight ending 26 October 2001 (i.e. it ends this Friday). ...
...has details of the recent Inside Soap awards. It starts off with 9 pages featuring all the winners from the recent awards and interviews with the winners, together with glamorous photographs and gossip from the party. You then move onto what would normally be the start of the magazine – the contents page. The next 4 pages detail current news from the world of soap, viewing figures, news from Australian soaps and small snippets of information ... Read review

Advantages: Find out future storylines before they happen, loads of gossip about the stars
Disadvantages: I read it too quickly then have to wait 2 weeks for the next issue

...of soap fanatics. Inside Soap is just one of these magazines, I believe it was the first magazine to totally dedicate itself to soaps. I first stumbled upon a copy in the Doctors waiting room and have been a fan ever since. Inside Soap comes out once a fortnight on a Tuesday. It costs £1.30 and this is what you get for your money. The magazine is fresh and bright and the front cover normally features a picture and headline of a future storyline in ...
...(Beppe di Marco). Inside Info features snippets of information in relation to the various soaps and soap stars such as who is leaving, and brief snippets of information relating to the actors real lives. Also on these pages there is a small section dedicated to soap history which gives a brief outline to some of the popular storylines from 1 year, 5 years and 10 years ago. Soap Box is a selection of viewers letters about anything and everything - ... Read review