Last year, ABC brought back The Gong Show, originally a Chuck Barris 1970s and ’80s NBC and syndicated classic. The TV series ran in about the middle of the pack in the Nielsen ratings race, even beat out some scripted series, and was renewed for a second season. How will it perform, this time around? Will The Gong Show be cancelled or renewed for season three? Stay tuned. *Status update below.
Hosted by “British comedic legend Tommy Maitland” (Mike Myers), The Gong Show is a wacky ABC talent competition TV show. Season two celebrity judges include Will Arnett, Fred Armisen, Rita Wilson, Tony Hale, Regina Hall, Jason Sudeikis, Sharon Osbourne, Brad Paisley, Dana Carvey, Ken Jeong, Rob Riggle, Alyson Hannigan, and Jimmy Kimmel. Performers with unique talents face off in hopes of impressing the rotating panel of three celebrity judges. When a judge determines an act does not deserve a score, he or she can grab the mallet, strike the gong, and eliminate the contestant, provided fellow judges don’t prevent it. When an act pleases the judges, they will award it between 0 and 10 points. At the end of each episode, the performer or act with the highest score wins The Gong Show trophy and a check for $2,000.18.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings (particularly in the 18-49 demo), the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available — typically around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.
8/31 update: You can see the latest night’s ratings in context.
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For comparisons: The first season of The Gong Show on ABC averaged a 0.68 rating in the 18-49 year old demographic and 2.797 million viewers.
Note: These are the Live + Same Day Ratings which include “live” viewing plus delayed DVR viewing, up until 3am local time that same night. Ratings marked with an “*” are the fast affiliate ratings and will be updated with the Live+SD numbers when they are made available. Typically, networks get paid for C+3 ratings which includes DVR viewing within three days of the original airing when commercials are watched. Those numbers are rarely released to the press.
What do you think? Do you like The Gong Show TV series on ABC? Should it be cancelled or renewed for a third season?
Who’a a cheeky monkey??You are!!
I can’t get enough of this, Mike Myers kills! Amazing! ABC needs another 10 episodes!
Not a big fan of Michael Myers but he had me fooled with the MC character. The show is awesome. I wish ABC liked it as much as the show’s fans do!!!
Gong Show – mini getaway for me. Need that! Great way to unwind. Also there is amazing legitimate talent to enjoy. Wish the camera would stop showing us audience faces as that is when we miss the performance.
Miss the sing-a-long from first season.
Could they have a few different sing-a-longs to rotate through?
Keep show going please.
My family loves the gong show its one show we all look forward to watching together please come back for a 3Rd season we do wish you would bring back the shaving cream song tho we LOVE it!
These watch viewer number s2 to s1 does not look right. S1 is higher at this 4th week….Then s2 week 4 number watchers.hence it is lower for s2
I think Arnett needs to lighten up a bit. Many of these people are not professional performers and the cheesiness is what makes the show so good.
This shows thinks it needs to be dumped
No no no… don’t even think that…watch it with an open mind… have fun !
Bring on the Shaving Cream song ! Will ya Will ? Love it !
I love irt! But the judge…….Will arnett really needs to either get the hell off the screen and stop his ego bs.Why did he put himself as A judge? He not funny he rude and at times most time self absorbed! He’s hurting the show with his presence if he was a good producer director he would know that he had no business on stage. The first episode he put himself in Center of the judge Seating Area….. why though hell did he do this? There are two other celebrity judges and he put some self in the center who… Read more »
Leave talented Will alone, he’s multitasking !
Lol but It’s obscene perverted what he’s doing and shouldn’t be on TV if you know what I mean.
Have no idea what you’re seeing as being perverted… it’s a fun wacky show… nothing else like it….wish the “cup of tea” jokes come back too! Relax, enjoy the madness and be happy.
One, madness Is not the thing, But what’s going on now in the show is no longer fun. If you every seen the one from the 1970 etc. You would noticed that the judges played little importantnce in the show.acts were the main thing. Hence the lower ratings do show how bad this version is.It shouldn’t be this low, now with time chance it’s do seem the show will be done after this season. It didn’t doesnt havebe, but sad how bad this show really is.