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NBC moves up lyrics show to compete with FOX's lyric show

by Adam Finley, posted Jun 23rd 2007 12:02PM

nbcIn April, I told you about NBC's The Great American Singing Bee, a new competition series in which contestants are challenged to sing the correct lyrics to a song. Then, recently, I told you about Don't Forget the Lyrics, a show on FOX with pretty much the exact same concept.

The Great American Singing Bee was supposed to air this fall, but NBC isn't about to let FOX steal its thunder by releasing Don't Forget the Lyrics next month. What does that mean for you, the home viewer? It means that this summer, with The Great American Spelling Bee's debut bumped up to July 10 at 9:30 (and Lyrics debuting the next day), you'll have two chances to catch a premise no one really found that interesting in the first place.

Forgive me, that was presumptuous, but I maintain a show centering on strangers butchering songs is a concept that will get old rather quickly.

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Jimmy Martin

Dear Sirs,

LYRICSHOW.COM and LYRICSHOWS.COM (to implement as main site redirect)

could we discuss these domains and if your company would
want to acquire it at reasonable cost...


LYRICSHOW.COM Google Results 2,530,000 for lyric show

LYRICSHOWS.COM Google Results 2,020,000 for lyric shows


$1700 OBO

thanks,

Jimmy Martin
Danielle Belknap
Apopka,Fl
407.358.0254

jmartin16@cfl.rr.com
jamiedomainer@yahoo.com

August 31 2007 at 1:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nick

Not only does the premise sound lame, somebody copied somebody else, which is even more lame. I suspect Fox, because they don't ever seem to have an original idea and always seem to steal whatever they can from any other source.

June 24 2007 at 11:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David

How about they bring back PRESS YOUR LUCK!

June 23 2007 at 8:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nahid

Who cares? This seems like the stupidest concept for a show anyway.

June 23 2007 at 3:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gilbert0

I'm glad NBC is trumping FOX. FOX will copy any concept from any reality show and give it the first run (Nanny 911 for example - I know there are others).

June 23 2007 at 2:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
linda

It's a GREAT concept for a show! When I was a teen back in the day, my friends and I would take turns singing along with the radio in the car. If you messed up on the lyrics, you had to get out and walk. You really learned the lyrics, because no one wanted to get out and walk, especially in the winter.

June 23 2007 at 1:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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