TV Now

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines for products and services. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "TV Now" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "TV Now" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (December 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

TV Now (stylised as TV NOW) is^{[citation needed]} an Irish magazine containing a television guide, interviews with television stars and other television-related items. It is part of the VIP publishing franchise of Michael O'Doherty. TV Now was launched in 2000^[1] as the last of O'Doherty's co-ordinated business ventures in Ireland with his former business partner John Ryan; it succeeded Magill in 1997 and VIP in 1999 and preceded later titles such as the teenage-oriented Kiss (2002),^[2] the glossy monthly targeted at women in the age group of eighteen to thirty-four Stellar^[3] and the failed New York Dog venture in New York City. TV Now competes^{[citation needed]} with Ireland's most popular television magazine, the RTÉ Guide (also the most popular magazine in the country overall) and, more recently,^[when?] with the Irish version of the United Kingdom's most popular television magazine What's on TV.^[4]