Tag: gong

26 DEC

Strictly Come Dancing Christmas – Debbie McGee wins festive gong

Delighted Debbie, 61 – who was a finalist on the main show in 2017 – said of last night’s triumph: “I wasn’t expecting it! It’s just amazing but you know, everybody has been fantastic. I think it’s everybody’s, because we all had a great time, everyone did such great dances.”  Debbie – who lost magician husband Paul […]

06 DEC

Cancelled or Not? Midnight, Texas, SYTYCD, Wayward Pines, The Gong Show and 7 More Series on the Bubble

Will NBC ever return to Midnight, Texas? Does Fox have one last Dance left in it? Will ABC bang the Gong again?  Those are just some of the questions keeping us awake at night (well, the first two anyway — we’re not losing sleep over The Gong Show.) The fate of nearly a dozen series […]

30 NOV

Horn fights off legends to land top gong

BRISBANE’S world welterweight boxing champion Jeff Horn is The Courier-Mail/Channel 7 Queensland Sport Star of the Year for 2017. Less than two weeks before he defends his title against British slugger Gary Corcoran at Suncorp Stadium, Horn outpointed a stellar field at the Brisbane Convention Centre last night to take the top gong at the […]

12 OCT

No one can cheat Boyle out of this gong

HER most vivid memory is the pain. There has been plenty of that in Raelene Boyle’s amazing life, but what happened in the 200m final at the 1972 Munich Olympics still lives at the forefront of her mind. “I do remember the unbelievable pain I felt at the end of the 200m in Munich because […]

29 APR

Mike Myers Is Not So Secretly Hosting ‘The Gong Show’ Remake as a Fake British Comedian

In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a remake of the classic 1970s amateur talent contest TV series The Gong Show coming to ABC in June. The show featured contestants displaying odd, questionable talents in front of a panel of celebrity judges who had the power to hit a gong that would end the performance before […]