On May 20, 2:28 am, stan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On May 19, 10:02 am, Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Ubiquitous producer Mark Burnett will make his first series for ABC, “Shark
> > Tank,” where budding entrepreneurs try to convince five millionaires to
> > seed their business ideas.
>
> Was this the Mark Cuban show the first time around?
The Mark Cuban show was more of a traditional multi-week/elimination-
every-week reality comp--"Dragon's Den," the format this show is based
on, is a closed-ended show where a new group of entrepreneurs come on
every week to pitch their ideas and one of them wins at the end. The
British version, which airs on BBCA here, is interesting in the way
it's produced--in a small room with starker camera work and no non-
stop music track or the usual slickness of Burnett's shows.
Supposedly, Burnett wants to do his version the same way (the network
had considered doing it in a studio with a screaming audience, but
cooler heads prevailed).
Speaking of Burnett, I noticed that BBCA titles the UK version of "The
Apprentice" they're now running "Mark Burnett's The Apprentice UK"--is
that what it's called in the UK? I assume that if he wanted his name
in the title of the U.S. show, Trump would either disapprove or demand
that his name be in the title, as well.
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