Ah, the Weekly World News, or as the publication likes to call itself "The World's Only Reliable Source of News", my favorite supermarket checkout isle magazine of all time (sorry, Reader's Digest). I used to stare at it longingly as a child, wondering if there really was a Bat Boy or if the President of the United States was, as so dutifully reported, a transvestite alien. Now that the news rag has gone online-only (if only one of their often mentioned psychic mediums had told them that making up stories about mutant babies and dead celebrities wasn't a sustainable business model for print publication), headlines like "Wife Meets Dead Husband in the Devil's Triangle!" just don't have that spark of truth like they used to.

That's about to change, however, because DreamWorks plans on making all of my dreams come true by turning the Weekly World News and its zany cast of characters into a serialized TV show. That's right, if things pan out (and man alive, I hope they do), Bat Boy, Bigfoot, Elvis, and the Lake Erie Monster are all going to be a regular part of popular culture once again.

Okay, so maybe they never were that popular to begin with, but The Hollywood Reporter tells us that now thanks to a visionary at DreamWorks, the maybe-animated, maybe-live-action show will feature Bay Boy heavily, alongside other potential characters like "neo-conservative columnist Ed Anger, who McGinness calls "the original blueprint for Bill O'Reilly or Rush Limbaugh"; the UFO Alien, a brainy political pundit who correctly predicted every U.S. presidential race since the Reagan era before switching allegiance from Barack Obama to John McCain at the last second; the Lake Erie Monster, aka Lemmie, who last year tried out for a female cast member role on "Saturday Night Live"; Scooter, the world's richest hamster; Ph.D. Ape; Man-agator (half-human, half-alligator); and Tonya, the world's fattest cat."

Personally, I think this is a brilliant idea. The popularity of shows like "Fringe" on Fox have proven that there is always a market for monster-of-the-week television, and I can't imagine a vaster treasure trove of creatures and storylines to pull from than the Weekly World News. If DreamWorks hires the right show runner, and if a network actually picks up and embraces the concept, I say the makings of a new sci-fi/comedy hit are in order.

Oh, and you can read almost every issue of the Weekly World News online thanks to Google. Isn't the Internet grand?