TV Guide is the name of two North American weekly magazines about television programming, one in the United States and one in Canada. as well as their companion websites. Although the magazines share the same name and a similar logo, they are owned by different companies and publish distinct editorial content. The term is also commonly used to describe other TV listings appearing on the web and in newspapers. tvguides.ca is an active site registered since 2003. Read/Write Web published "Your Guide to Online TV Guides: 10 Services Compared." Techcrunch in 2006 offered "Overview: The End of Paper TV Guides." TV Guides is also the name of an interactive video and sound installation produced in 1995 with assistance from the Canada Council and shown at SIGGRAPH 1999. National TV guides are also published in other countries, but none of these is believed to be affiliated with the North American publication. In the United Kingdom, the Radio Times and TV Times are amongst the most popular. In Germany, people have the choice of about 50 different TV Guides; some of them showing the TV listings for the next 2 or even 4 weeks ahead. In Australia, During the 1970s there was a version of TV Guide, which was published under license by Southdown Press. But that version soon merged with its competitor publication, TV Week, in 1980. TV Week has a very similar logo to the TV Guide logo. New Zealand has is a digest sized publication called TV Guide, although it is not linked in any way to either the United States or Canadian publications. It has the biggest circulation of any national magazine, and is published by Fairfax Media. Mexico offers a digest-sized publication called TV Guía, unrelated with the US publication. It is published by Editorial Televisa.

In addition to TV listings, the publications feature television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews. Some even featured horoscope listings and crossword puzzles.