Serious question for a minute: Match Game added just the right amount of kitsch, while modernizing the show. Past Gong revivals all modernized themselves, but tried to be a little too zany, IMO*. Does a 2010s version work using the kitschiness Chuckie Baby gave us, or will ABC find itself behind the 8-ball trying to get a hit?
I think a lot will have to do with who they would get to host. Back in the Barris era, though the Gary Owens nighttime & Chuck Barris daytime shows were pretty much the same exact format, Gary Owens had given the show, IMHO, an almost (Letters to) Laugh-In feel to the show, while Chuck was a far different slant -- especially in the later years.
The question now is, who should be the host? One of the first names that crossed my mind is Dennis Miller. He has that facetious style that is more Early-Gong Chuckie Baby than an Extreme Gong George Gray.
