Joey Fatone was once the fifth banana in the five-man vocal group 'N Sync, memorable only because you can base a lot of bad puns on his last name. But while other members of the group have turned their attention to frivolous pastimes like preparing to go into space or sleeping with Jessica Biel, Fatone has single-mindedly set out to appear on every reality show in existence, and now must be deemed the true successor to Regis Philbin. The Fatone empire started innocently enough, with his so-so effort on Dancing With the Stars. Even his stint as the host of the short-lived The Singing Bee did not raise many eyebrows. But he now has pulled off the rare feat of being part of two series airing simultaneously on two different channels: the ongoing Celebrity Circus, and The Singing Office, which premieres Sunday (TLC, 9 PM). Can Meet the Press be far behind?

The show will pit Fatone and (ex?) Spice Girl Melanie Brown against each other as team leaders who are setting out to find talent in American workplaces that supposedly don't even realize the pair is coming. The premiere finds Fatone at the St. Regis Hotel in a search for singing concierges etc, while Mel B. is on the prowl at the Horace Mann Elementary School. As the season progresses, the teams of five will advance until the finale, with the grand prize of $50,000. Mel B. was more famous in her day, but can she possibly overcome the charisma, the force, that is Fatone?

GLAAD Media Awards (Bravo, 7 PM): This annual event has been around for 19 years, but this is its first time running on a channel not specifically devoted to gay programming (though in the case of Bravo, that's a distinction without much of a difference). Janet Jackson picks up the Vanguard Award, Rufus Wainwright and Joss Stone will perform, and Kathy Griffin will be there in the role of den mother.

Dance Machine (ABC, tonight 8 PM): Let's see: it's a new day of the week, so it must be time for another dancing show. The gimmicks here are that 1.) the dancers are regular Joes, not kids on the way up or celebs on the way down; and 2.) the episodes are self-contained, with the six competitors whittled down to a $100,000 prize winner throughout the course of the hour. Jason Kennedy hosts.

Groomer Has It (Animal Planet, Saturday 9 PM): Pet grooming immortality (along with $50,000 and the chance to operate a mobile grooming facility) awaits the winner, which will be decided here as the finalists must work on seven dogs in just ten hours. While I abide by the "less is more" philosophy of pet care -- if they're fed, they're fine -- you can't go wrong by putting well-behaved (most of them) dogs on the air and watching people tend to them.

The Tenth Circle (Lifetime, Saturday 9 PM): Based on a Jodi Picoult novel, it's the story of a teenage girl who accuses a former boyfriend of rape, and the suspicion that falls upon her family when the accused turns up dead. Kelly Preston stars along with Ron Eldard, who looks awfully weird all of a sudden.

Saturday Night Live (NBC, Saturday 11:30 PM): A repeat of the first ever SNL, with George Carlin as the host. This was not a great 90 minutes of entertainment as the show took several weeks to truly hit its stride, but it's certainly worth watching for devotees of TV history. Carlin's monologues were the highlight of the show, with the original Not Ready For Prime Time Players cast almost an afterthought. No one could have guessed watching that October night in 1975 that within two years these would be some of the biggest stars on television.

Army Wives (Lifetime, Sunday 10 PM): Denise makes friends with a young -- and need I even add, good-looking -- soldier who gets her on a motorcycle; Roxy gets a job working with shrimp; Trevor is ambivalent about his new status.

Denise Richards: It's Complicated (E!, Sunday 10 PM): Denise wants to reconnect with her rural roots, so she visits her sister, who lives in Temecula, which is in Orange County. It's not exactly Hooterville. She also does some babysitting for her nephew, who hopefully is old enough that he already knows all the words that Aunty Denise shouldn't be saying in front of the children but sometimes does.

Factory (Spike, Sunday 10 PM): Spike goes into the sitcom business with this entry from Mitch Rouse, whose credits include the bizarre Strangers With Candy. The show covers the banter, workplace and otherwise, among four blue-collar guys. Since this is Spike, expect not so much in the manner of Upton Sinclair, and more plots along the line of the pilot, which finds the friends discussing the gruesome fate of a coworker, and the new job opening created by that fate.

The Two Coreys (A&E, Sunday 10 PM and 10:30 PM): If it's wrong to be drawing vicarious pleasure from watching these two deluded nobodies, then damn it, I don't want to be right. At 10, Haim has second thoughts about doing a sequel to The Lost Boys, angering Feldman, who had set the project up in the first place (they would really do the sequel with just these two?); at 10:30, Haim takes out a full page ad in Daily Variety (which can't be all that cheap) to apologize for his many misdeeds, prompting Feldman to think he might be serious this time.

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