A blog about television by TIME’s TV critic James Poniewozik.

JPTV: What I'm Watching Tonight

Is it wrong to be waiting anxiously for the premiere of The Singing Bee? Yes. Yes, it is. But I am a weak man.

I also plan to catch Don't Forget the Lyrics on Fox the next night for compare-and-contrast purposes. The latter show is apparently another in the proud Fox history of ripping off competitors' reality concepts and rushing them to air, but I have a hard time working up moral indignation over the theft of the intellectual property, "Let's get people to mess up song lyrics."

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