American Inventor

ABC (ended 2007)

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Premiered: Mar 16, 2006
Status: Ended

American Inventor is a show about the biggest search ever for America's best new invention. The show sets out to uncover the hottest new product each season and make one struggling inventor's dream come true. With one million dollars at stake, American Inventor celebrates the best in homespun American ingenuity.

National casting calls were held in six major cities across the country. Thousands of inventors, tinkerers and entrepreneurs of all ages were drawn to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Houston, and Tampa for a shot at turning their dreams into realities. Inventors of all ages presented their most prized inventions, featuring everything from the wacky to the heart warming.

A panel of expert judges narrows down the initial entries to a group of finalists, who are given $50,000 each to develop their product, refine it and take it to the next level. This is a show that makes the American dream come true for one person -- taking his/her idea, vision and creativity and helping to turn it into a mass produced product that will be in every American home -- but in the end it is up to America to call in and vote on which invention is worthy of the one million dollar prize.

American Inventor is produced by FremantleMedia North America, Simon Cowell's Syco Television and Peter Jones TV Ltd. Simon Cowell, Cecile Frot-Coutaz, Siobhan Greene, Peter Jones and Clay Newbill are executive producers. Dug James and Tabitha Hansen are co-executive producers.moreless

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S 2 : Ep 9	Episode 208	Aired 8/1/07	go
S 2 : Ep 8	Episode 207B	Aired 7/25/07	go
S 2 : Ep 7	Episode 207	Aired 7/25/07
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NBC is having a reality good summer

By Colin Mahan, Jun 28, 2006

America loves seeing if America has talent. The NBC reality show, from American Idol cocreator Simon Cowell, looks poised for a good summer run. In its premiere last Wednesday, Talent was the number one show of the night. For the… more

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By assasin61, Mar 07, 2008 Report Abuse

so basically this show is just like americas got talent and american idol. 3 judges judge someone whop comes up and tells them wat their in vention is. if it suks, they leave. if its good, u get money to make it even better for the next round. i think is funny what some of the people bring in expectin to go to the next round and the way some people reacty from gettin rejected can be hilarious at times too. its interesting to see objects that might be part of 2morrows technology and objects that are a joke to humanity.moreless

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I watched american inventor for the 1st time on 7/19. This is the stupidest show on tv now. How can intellegent?? people vote for a tea maker & foil wrapper rather than the wallbanger or the deaf kid??moreless

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By samtaylor47, Jul 20, 2007 Report Abuse

American is lazy enough without making easy to do things even easier. For heavens sake, a tea pot & a leftover wrapper!!The door jammer can save lives & the deaf kids invention can help lots of deaf people. That British guy said it would cost to much money to mass produce. Well how much does he think one Cop's life is worth?? I thought even George would have enough sence to vote for things to help us & not make us lazier. I will never watch this stupid show again & hope it goes off the air soon. Maybe they will put something on to help the needy people!!moreless

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This show has some good potential for helping some lucky soul get their invention into the market.Although some of the ideas are way off the wall, it makes this show worth watching,LOVE TO SEE THE JUDGES TRY NOT TO LAUGHmoreless

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By JLB_JB, Jun 29, 2007 Report Abuse

Some of the ideas are from less than gifted people, but this show is much better than most of the programs the networks force us to endure. I really enjoy watching the judges try not to laugh directly at some of the contestants. While some of the ideas are very good, More often than not these people have not had their ideas screened by a respectable party before making fools of themselves on national t.v.I like this show however I think George Foreman has as big a heart as his biceps, (never wanting to hurt anyones feelings) when some of the folks clearly should not have even tried out for the show.moreless

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Great more reality dribble produced by Simon Cowell, well this is perhaps the most boring, un-entertaining and poorly produced reality show ever created. Please change the channel.

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By DaVulture, Jun 28, 2007 Report Abuse

When I saw American Inventor last year, there was nothing really that stuck out to me. The show was pretty much like American Idol, a nasty Brit and of course the fun judges. Making you almost think does Simon Cowell have any creativity in creating a show or does he just want to create the same, "Best of America" competition with the of course the same "Old Nasty British Judge." The cheeky music along with the poor hosts only add to making this show completely unfunny or even exciting. To make matters worse the inventions aren't exciting and the show tries to milk every single "family moment." For example last season they had an episode where a kid was told his inventions were bad and the kid broke down in tears to his mother and one of the judges tried to comfort him. Yeah really great. The show if anything like other Cowell shows pretty much certifies that if you aren't the best at what your doing that you shouldn't try it. That's not the only message the show gives off, the show says if you work your butt off that your wasting your time because if you don't have natural talent it doesn't matter. Way to shatter dreams Simon, this is dull, un-entertaining and just totally out of place as a Reality program. Poorly done and even though I'm sick of American Idol that show at least has some more pizazz then this quirky reality show wannabe.moreless

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Not the best, but I guess it's interesting and will get me through the summer breaks.

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By tiewashere, Jun 12, 2007 Report Abuse

It's not like this is an amazing show. Some parts were funny and some parts were stupid. The one thing that I really hated about this show was that the scenes were so long and they didn't show enough inventions. And that annoying British guy ugh! The judges never seem to give the people chances to actually show their stuff and instead they let people that have horrible intentions that no one would buy into the next round...despicable. Not the best, but I guess it's interesting and will get me through the summer breaks.moreless

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Is the series dead?
http://www.tv.com/story/11083.html doesn't mention American Inventor. I am going to assume the series is dead.

By antdude, Apr 01, 2008

03/27/11

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Any new Seasons?
If they renewed the season I believe I could win.

By DavidBuckner, Dec 10, 2010

12/10/10

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To the kid with the dog air conditioner...
Normally I don't comment on these blogs, but I wanted to write anyway on the off chance you read it. I think your invention has...

By just_a_comment, Mar 16, 2006

05/24/08

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Is American Inventor Fraudulent?
Here's what some anonymous person had to say:"Janusz does not have any experience in design. American Inventor is not whatit claim...

By TelFan7, Jul 12, 2007

08/24/07

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Who will win? (POLL)
I think the saving lives thing just seals the deal.

By bballmegan22, Jul 26, 2007

08/20/07

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