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10-03-2016, 08:30 PM
Will Arnett is bringing 'The Gong Show' back to ABC
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It really is the golden age of revivals. ABC an**unced Monday that the network is renewing the late-1970s comedy talent franchise The Gong Show, to be produced by Will Arnett.*
SEE ALSO: Kate McKin**n's jokes destroy Margot Robbie on 'SNL' (http://mashable.com/2016/10/02/kate-mckin**n-margot-robbie-break-saturday-night-live/)
The Gong Show brings together several reality show formats with doses of absurdist humor; Contestants take the stage for a talent show and if the judges aren't happy, they strike a giant gong. It's like The Voice, in reverse, and louder. With gongs. Any act that didn't get "gonged" received a score, with the winners taking home a cash prize.
That particular game show cocktail may **t have fit the '70s and '80s palate, but television executives feel the time is ripe to strike anew. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/10/03/the-gong-show-will-arnett/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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It really is the golden age of revivals. ABC an**unced Monday that the network is renewing the late-1970s comedy talent franchise The Gong Show, to be produced by Will Arnett.*
SEE ALSO: Kate McKin**n's jokes destroy Margot Robbie on 'SNL' (http://mashable.com/2016/10/02/kate-mckin**n-margot-robbie-break-saturday-night-live/)
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That particular game show cocktail may **t have fit the '70s and '80s palate, but television executives feel the time is ripe to strike anew. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/10/03/the-gong-show-will-arnett/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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