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Weekly World News

  • TV Series
  • 1996–
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
25
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Edwin Newman hosts "Weekly World News" TV series (1996)
SatireComedy

This show is based of America's favorite tabloid magazine, "Weekly World News".This show is based of America's favorite tabloid magazine, "Weekly World News".This show is based of America's favorite tabloid magazine, "Weekly World News".

  • Stars
    • Jimmy Hodson
    • Edwin Newman
    • Chris Tashima
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    8.1/10
    25
    YOUR RATING
    • Stars
      • Jimmy Hodson
      • Edwin Newman
      • Chris Tashima
    • 2User reviews
    • 1Critic review
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • Episodes7

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    Jimmy Hodson
    Jimmy Hodson
    • Narrator
    • 1996
    Edwin Newman
    Edwin Newman
    • Self - Host
    • 1996
    Chris Tashima
    Chris Tashima
    • Producer Shoji Nomo
    • 1996
    Lesa Thurman
    Lesa Thurman
    • Sherri
    • 1996
    Robert Pike Daniel
    Robert Pike Daniel
    • Self - Cat Fisherman
    • 1996
    Vick Sabian
    Vick Sabian
    • Self - Wolfman
    • 1996
    Mary Morrissey
    Mary Morrissey
    • Self - Tawney
    • 1996
    Sandie West
    Sandie West
    • Preacher
    • 1996
    Jim Johnson
    Jim Johnson
    • Stewart's Friend
    • 1996
    Kinna Lindahl
    • Bikini Garbage Girl
    • 1996
    Randy Kagan
    • Self - Special Correspondent
    • 1996
    Paul Rouffa
    • Self - Clifton Barnes
    • 1996
    Jeff Sable
    Jeff Sable
    • Garment Factory Owner
    • 1996
    Robin Ruffner
    • Self - Receptionist
    • 1996
    Philippe Bergeron
    Philippe Bergeron
    • Michael Montague
    Chris Sullivan
    Chris Sullivan
    • Doctor
    Johnny Kim
    • Self
    Charles Tentindo
    Charles Tentindo
    • Self - Lt. Sanchez
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    9Edermike

    This was a great show

    I really liked this show because frankly it was so weird. Like the newspaper it is obviously farce, but done with a straight face. Let's see we saw footage of bat boy who obviously was an infant with a rubber mask on em. There were many other things that I don't recall offhand but I will describe a really funny one. On one episode kids return home to visit Ma and Pa and find that they and the whole town are gone. The swings are still swinging on the swing set. The coffee is still being made and all the daughter can do is walk around the house going "maaaaaaa". It was really hysterical though it doesn't sound all the funny unless you had seen it. I was really mad that it was taken off so fast, but since nobody else seems to remember it, I will.
    7Java_Joe

    It's like the tabloid in every way.

    Weekly World News is a tabloid newspaper that you often find near the checkout stand at a supermarket. The headline usually has some doctored picture and a headline written in all caps with an exclamation point to show how amazing it is. And, for the most part, all the stories are fake. I say for the most part because I can't be 100% sure they've never run something truthful.

    But regardless of that we have the 1996 "news show" featuring famed newsman Edwin Newman as the host showing you stories that have appeared in the pages of the tabloid.

    The whole thing is a set up from the start and they're playing it tongue in cheek. Edwin brings the gravitas to it, reading each news article and commenting on it in that newscaster way of his. And this would be inter cut with interviews and videos of the amazing people in the story.

    Like in one there was a ballerina who supposedly could defy gravity and said there was an angel named "Paloma" that would support her as she leaped through the air. And they demonstrated this showing she could. That is if you ignored the slight jump in the frame when they photoshopped her "floating". Or when they had the infamous "Bat Boy" which was obviously a baby in a rubber mask. Or a man who had caught a computer virus and now was constantly speaking in binary and trying to call long distance which is what some viruses used to do.

    They couldn't keep it up because honestly it was just too silly to continue.

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      Referenced in WWE Raw: Raw After WrestleMania XII (1996)

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      • Los Angeles, California, USA
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