So Peter Jones (not the deparment store) has signed for ITV to present two shows for them, one of which is supposed to be a version of American Inventor. Of course, Jones has already signed on for another series of Dragon’s Den. What a busy man. How does he get time to run his companies?
It’s going to be interesting to see how similarly formatted “British Inventor”, or whatever it’s called, is to the US one, since the US show is basically Dragon’s Den with a bit of Pop Idol thrown in. The set they used, at least in the early stages, is straight out of Dragon’s Den.
The Mediaguardian piece suggests that there’s been quite a bidding war for the format rights to American Inventor, to which all I can say is that were it not for keeping Simon Cowell happy, I’d have just gone out and “invented” my own format based around, er, inventors pitching their ideas to a panel and then me picking a winner or winners.