''The Gong Show'' Will Never Do a Reunion Special, Here's Why

Chuck Barris told the Los Angeles Times he was afraid of one thing. When he died, he feared his obituary would reduce him to The Gong Show. He claimed he'd been a CIA assassin. He wrote a book about losing his only daughter. He sold his company for a hundred million dollars. None of it mattered. When he died in 2017, every obituary opened with the gong. Three months later, ABC held a tribute to him on a revival of the show he never wanted to define him. That revival quietly ended. There will not be another reunion. Here's why.