The World's Astonishing News

The World's Astonishing News began airing in 2002. The majority of the episodes are produced by Sean Traynor, E. Paul Dimartino Jr., and directed by either Yuki Gouroku, Shunsuke Morita, or Naoko Yamada. The show is produced under Duo Creative Communications, a San Francisco based company, and is distributed through Nippon Television Network (NTV), where the program receives it's distribution through Japan and many other Asian countries. The show is filmed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area as well as in Japan, and episodes air every month or so throughout Asia. The episodes are shot in documentary-style formats, to preserve the investigatory aesthetic, with English subtitles.

Plot

Episode topics have included stories such as the ones of Aileen Wuornos, psychic Kathlyn Rhea, and of the Wendy's Finger-in-the-chili incident. Episodes story lines also include those of Alexander Graham Bell, Gale St. John, and Lisa Marie Nowak.

Characters

Characters include David Pearl as the "Detective," David Hodges as the "Truck Driver," Big Spence as "Jimmy," Jaime Soria as the "Autistic Classmate," and Alexi Torres as "John Wayne Gacy (teenager)," and Kyle Scudiere as "Larry" and "Detective Brown".

  • The World's Astonishing News! at the Internet Movie Database 1