Singing Bee is possibly one of the cheesiest shows ever aired on network television and that is saying a lot. Joey Fatone hosts the show. He has obviously parleyed his re-found fame from Dancing with the Stars into this gig! The scary part is there is another show, Don’t Forget the Lyrics! with Wayne Brady, which is almost exactly the same.

The game is pretty simple when the band stops playing the contestant has to sing the next line of the song. In the second round they mix it up a bit. The words to the lyrics appear on the screen scrambled the contestants must then sing the words in the correct order. In the final round the last two contestants have to sing the entire chorus of the song. Then In the final round, the champion gets a chance at 7 songs. He gets $5,000 for each correct line. If he gets three wrong its over. If he gets at least 5 correct he wins the grand prize of $50,000 (Woo! What a big budget show!) It was fun to watch and sing along. The music was good, but this is definitely not don’t miss TV. If there isn’t anything else on cable, you might flip over to it.

Update (7/17/07): Get ready for plenty more Singing Bee with Joey Fatone. NBC has announced today that they’re adding it to their 2007 Fall TV schedule. That will bump 1 vs. 100 out till midseason while Singing Bee will get the prime spot at the start of the season. Wow, I’m surprised by how fast they made this decision!

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