Two summer series are giving karaoke a competitive game-show twist. Viewers, of course, are invited to warble along.

NBC’s “The Singing Bee” and Fox’s “Don’t Forget the Lyrics!”, debuting within a day of each other, give players the chance to win money by singing well-known songs from memory.

“The Singing Bee,” hosted by Joey Fatone of ‘N Sync and “Dancing with the Stars” fame, begins with a studio audience sing-along and the selection of “eight lucky contestants” chosen to compete in “fun-filled singing games”, NBC promises.

Contestants must get every word right or lose out on a cash prize of $50,000 on “Bee,” which premieres at 10.30 p.m. on Tuesday.

Wayne Brady (“Whose Line Is It Anyway?”) is in charge of the Fox series debuting at 10.30 p.m. on Wednesday. Players choose songs from different genres, decades and artists, then perform as the lyrics are displayed — up to a point. The words disappear when the music stops, and the contestants are on their own. At stake: Up to $1 million.

So it’s bigger bucks on “Don’t Forget the Lyrics!”, but NBC is sweetening the pot with a dance troupe, “The Honeybees.”

Other shows this week to look out for:

[bul] The American obsession with autos gets its due in two new series. Comedy Central’s “American Body Shop,” debuting 11.30 p.m. tomorrow, is a mock-reality show that plays the subject for laughs. At Desert Body & Custom, an Arizona body shop that skirts both excellence and ethics, the crew is as dysfunctional as the service. Sam (Peter A. Hulne) is the lucky boss. TLC’s straight-ahead reality series “Hard Shine” offers the flip side, with hotrod craftsman Jimmy Shine giving a group of trainees five months to demonstrate their talent and win a job building those treasured hot rods. As the contenders pamper expensive cars for demanding clients, Shine shares his wealth of auto experience. Do the wannabes deserve the education? “Hard Shine” debuts at 11 p.m. on Thursday.

[bul] A six-day spasm of violence that hit Newark, New Jersey, in 1967 is the prism used to examine the black urban rebellions of the decade in “Revolution ‘67”, a 90-minute documentary airing at 11 p.m. on Tuesday on PBS’ “P.O.V.” series. Activist Tom Hayden, former Mayor James Sharpe, National Guardsmen and residents of the city weigh in as filmmaker Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno examines the mayhem in a political and social context. “Revolution ‘67” illuminates a period that it contends provided lessons that have been largely ignored. The film is a co-production of the Independent Television Service and “P.O.V.,” which showcases projects with a strong point of view.

l Fifty years after the Dodgers left their New York home, the team’s storied history is recounted in “Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush,” debuting at 9 p.m. on Wednesday. The film, from HBO Sports and Major League Baseball Productions, looks at the definitive decade from 1947-57 when the Dodgers and Jackie Robinson integrated baseball and the team endured a string of World Series losses against the rival New York Yankees. Vindication came with a series victory in 1955, but just two years later the Dodgers headed west to Los Angeles. Fans always had a love-hate relationship with the team, says comedian and Brooklyn native Pat Cooper: “We never had that kind of `Wow, Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio.’ We had the Brooklyn Bums”.

[bul] USA Network’s “Psych” returns for its second season with James Roday as Shawn Spencer, a Southern California police consultant whose offbeat approach raises suspicions that he’s psychic. Clever Shawn doesn’t try too hard to set the record straight. Dule Hill co-stars as his friend and reluctant sidekick, Gus, and Corbin Bernsen plays his stern father, a retired officer. In the opening episode, airing at 11 p.m. on Friday, an acid-tongued judge on an “American Idol”-style talent show is panicked by a series of attempts on his life and hires Shawn to find out who might wish him ill. Episode bonus: Tim Curry plays the witty, endangered Brit.