Hot Tickets, the Evening Standard’s entertainment listings magazine, is being relaunched as ‘Metrolife’. It will lose the TV listings and position itself as London’s ‘guide to going out’. Among the new additions will be a Heat-style celebrity section and a clubbing section written by Pete Tong. "This is an extremely exciting venture and a smart marketing move for the business," the Standard's new MD Mike Anderson told Media Guardian. "Through our continual investment in London we've created a market for a brand new entertainment magazine."
The choice of name is interesting – the popular freesheet Metro is published by the Standard’s parent company. Whether there will be any design similarities between the two remains to be seen.