{"id":1463,"date":"2006-04-28T09:29:44","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T09:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2006\/04\/simon_jones\/"},"modified":"2006-04-28T09:29:44","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T09:29:44","slug":"simon_jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/simon_jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Peter Jones (not the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterjones.co.uk\/default.asp\">deparment store<\/a>) has <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/broadcast\/story\/0,,1763002,00.html\">signed for ITV<\/a> to present two shows for them, one of which is supposed to be a version of <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/primetime\/americaninventor\/\">American Inventor<\/a>. Of course, Jones has already signed on for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/pressoffice\/pressreleases\/stories\/2006\/04_april\/21\/dragons.shtml\">another series<\/a> of Dragon&#8217;s Den. What a busy man. How does he get time to run his companies?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s going to be interesting to see how similarly formatted &#8220;British Inventor&#8221;, or whatever it&#8217;s called, is to the US one, since the US show is basically Dragon&#8217;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&#8217;s Den.<br \/>\nThe Mediaguardian piece suggests that there&#8217;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&#8217;d have just gone out and &#8220;invented&#8221; my own format based around, er, inventors pitching their ideas to a panel and then me picking a winner or winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Den. What a busy man. How does he get time to run his companies? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}