For the last several years, Mike Myers has been hiding in plain sight. The beloved comedian—who spent the 90s and early aughts pelting viewers with hits like Austin Powers and Wayne’s World—has slowed down his output, favoring documentaries over features. The last proper movie he did was 2010’s Shrek Forever After; since then, he’s appeared in a handful of documentaries, such as Being Canadian (an inscrutable title), and even directed one, titled Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, about the titular talent agent. Seven years later, though, Myers is finally ready to step back into the limelight. Well, sort of. It’s time to meet Tommy Maitland, Myers’s latest comedic alter-ego.

On June 22, ABC is premiering a strange new incarnation of the classic talent contest The Gong Show, hosted by legendary British comedian “Tommy Maitland” . . . who is actually Mike Myers, with loads of transformative makeup, an accent, and a detailed fake backstory. Myers will stay in character as Maitland throughout his tenure on the show. Maitland’s got his own Twitter and everything, tweeting out charming Britishisms like “cheeky monkey,” which seems to be his catchphrase.

Viewers were first introduced to Maitland in May, when Will Arnett (who executive produces the rebooted Gong Show) guest-hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live and brought out Maitland as a guest. ABC released a new trailer for the show on Wednesday, and is also all-in on the fake host fantasy, referring to the personality as Maitland instead of Myers in all the show’s promotional material.

There’s even an incredibly detailed bio for Maitland—in case you were wondering, he was born on July 7, 1944, his middle name is Winston, and he joined the British army “at the tender age of 15.” He got his start in the industry as an actor, then switched over to game-show hosting in the 80s, tending to the British game show Tell You What and the Australian show Dingo’s Got the Baby, “in which one contestant would be the dingo and another the baby, and a chase would ensue.” Hope you’re not exhausted yet, because there’s plenty more where that came from.

This sort of extreme impression work is par for the course for Myers, whose film career was built on gleefully bizarro accented alter egos. (He played four flamboyant main characters in the Austin Powers franchise alone.) Doing the same shtick on TV, though—on a network series that logs more production hours than a movie—means taking his comedic commitment to a whole new level, which Myers may consider a welcome challenge after his sputtering output these last few years. The new game show also arrives the same year as vital anniversaries for some of the comedian’s most famous films—Wayne’s World (25 years) and the first Austin Powers movie (20 years)—which gives Gong an extra sense of kismet, don’t you think? Welcome back, Myers—er, Maitland.