A blog about television by TIME’s TV critic James Poniewozik.
'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy
Tuesday, July 10, NBC debuts The Singing Bee, a competition, hosted by NSYNCer Joey Fatone and his Goatee of Death, in which contestants try to remember--or, preferably, misremember--the precise lyrics to pop songs. Which is greater: My embarrassment that I am totally going to watch this show? Or my chagrin that someone listened to Simon Cowell call a performance "bad karaoke" on American Idol, wrote down "BAD KARAOKE!!!" on a cocktail napkin and made a zillion dollars selling the idea?
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