Peter Jones loans a portion of his fortune to six aspiring tycoons with business ideas they are sure will take off. They have ten weeks to turn a good profit and pick up tycoon skills from Peter.
From Simon Cowell and the producers of "American Idol" comes an exciting new reality series, "American Inventor". The show sets out to find America's next greatest invention by uncovering the hottest new products from the country's brightest inventors. Inventor wannabes compete for a $1 million prize.
The "dragons", a panel of tough business minds, decide whether or not to green light a fund-lacking entrepreneur's idea on this BBC2 series. Contestants pitch their ideas offering up a percentage of ownership in the imagined company in the hopes of winning the investment dollars of five critical venture capitalists.