American Inventor

Name: American Inventor
Genre: Reality, Health & Lifestyle, Game Show, Tech & Gaming
Released: March 16, 2006
Rating: 29

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ABC | Release Date: March 16, 2006

Summary: 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 wereAmerican 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.… Expand

Genre(s): Reality, Health & Lifestyle, Game Show, Tech & Gaming

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S2:E8. Episode 208
Air Date: August 1, 2007
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S2:E8. Episode 207B
Air Date: July 25, 2007
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S2:E7. Episode 207
Air Date: July 25, 2007

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Adam Buckman

Season 1 Review: The audition segments are mostly hilarious. Read full review

Robert Lloyd

Season 1 Review: I was often moved by the dedication and heart on display. Read full review

Matthew Gilbert

Season 1 Review: Despite all its contrived reality melodrama, ''American Inventor" features a steady stream of entertainingly kooky and cool creations. Read full review

Mike McDaniel

Season 1 Review: A bloated disappointment that spends more time on the judges than the inventors and their inventions. Read full review

Mike Duffy

Season 1 Review: [A] cheesy carnival of reality TV. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Season 1 Review: At almost every level, "American Inventor" is over-produced. Read full review

Verne Gay

Season 1 Review: "American Inventor," ... is unspeakably awful, and makes not just a travesty of the type of television that "American Idol" so dramatically popularized, but an unintentional parody of it as well. Read full review

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Seasons & Episodes

29

Series Overview
Season 2

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  Air Date: June 6, 2007
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  S2:E8. Episode 208
  Air Date: August 1, 2007
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  S2:E8. Episode 207B
  Air Date: July 25, 2007
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  S2:E7. Episode 207
  Air Date: July 25, 2007
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  S2:E7. Episode 207A
  Air Date: July 25, 2007
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  S2:E6. Episode 206
  Air Date: July 18, 2007
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  S2:E5. Episode 205
  Air Date: July 11, 2007
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  S2:E4. Episode 204
  Air Date: June 27, 2007
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  S2:E3. Episode 203
  Air Date: June 20, 2007
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  S2:E2. Episode 202
  Air Date: June 13, 2007
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  S2:E1. Episode 201
  Air Date: June 6, 2007
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: March 16, 2006