After last summer's successful game show revivals, ABC has committed to ten episodes of the fifth incarnation of "The Gong Show," Chuck Barris' mocking of TV talent shows, for presumably next summer, with Will Arnett aboard as trophy producer but host or regular panelists yet to be announced (and oh yes, THR, there was no such thing as Sony Pictures Television in 1976):
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/abc-orders-gong-show-revival-934590?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=THR%20Live%20Feed_2016-10-03%2011:00:00_kstanhope&utm_term=hollywoodreporter_livefeed_daily For the record, after the original 1976-80 run on NBC and syndication hosted by Chuckie Baby (and Gary Owens for the first year of syndication), there was a one-year run in syndication in 1988 hosted by San Francisco radio guy Don Bleu, a live, home-viewer judged incarnation for GSN in 1998 called "Extreme Gong" and hosted by current "Price is Right" announcer George Gray and a revival for Comedy Central in 2008 hosted by Dave Atell and produced by Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions for Sony, the owner of the format. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
