Will Arnett is executive producer of the new ABC show. — -- ABC’s had good luck bringing back old-school game shows like "Match Game" and "$100,000 Pyramid." Now the network is reviving the "The ...

Hosted by Chuck Barris, “The Gong Show” (1976-1980) was a circus sideshow with some of the weirdest acts of the day. Though the series lived on with other hosts, it is most closely identified with ...

Long before “America’s Got Talent,” the country had “The Gong Show.” The 1970s series, hosted by creator Chuck Barris, celebrated the quirky and the outlandish — from a singer dressed as a penguin to ...

Chuck Barris, whose game show empire included The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game and that infamous factory of cheese, The Gong Show, has died. He was 87. Barris died of natural causes Tuesday ...

Tommy Maitland is appearing on American TV for the first time after a long career in England. NY Post photo composite/ABC Veteran British comedian Tommy Maitland makes his American TV debut as the ...

Last Thursday, ABC introduced a new generation of viewers to a rebooted version of “The Gong Show” more than 40 years after Chuck Barris ’53, who received an honorary degree in 2001, debuted his ...

Get ready to bang a gong and get it on — again. ABC has set an 8 PM Thursday, June 21, for the Season 2 premiere of The Gong Show, hosted by cheeky British comedy legend Tommy Maitland (aka Mike Myers ...

Summer network TV is not known for its prestige offerings. It's historically a place where less ambitious shows air. And this summer, there will be a string of new game shows. It's never too late for ...

The venerable variety-show format gets good judges and talent for its opener, but Mike Myers' performance-art host, Tommy Maitland, adds nothing to 'The Gong Show.' By Daniel Fienberg ABC‘s new ...

From the moment the host of The Gong Show walks onto the stage, the point of view of ABC’s revival of the 1970s absurdist game show, which premiered Thursday, is immediately established. Clad in a ...

Mike Myers (Saturday Night Live, Austin Powers) is hosting ABC’s remake of The Gong Show, except he’ll be disguised in this creepy makeup and ABC is pretending he’s a 72-year-old British comedy legend ...

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