Talk:Dragons' Den/Archives/2012

Countries
Page used to have a UK-tv-stub. The Australian reports that Dragons' Den "began in Japan, hence the Dragons' Den moniker, where it was a kitsch, overly dramatic show in which most people pitched different types of noodles."  I replaced the UK-tv-stub with a general tv-stub. DynaBlast 11:15, 12 November 2005 (UTC) An article has been developed under the (incorrectly named) Dragon's Den. Information from this article should be merged to this page. DynaBlast 18:04, 2 December 2005 (UTC) Hey everyone, I have done a bit of work on the Dragons' Den page to improve it abit before the merger (if it happens). I just updated the the format section, made the UK/Australia version sections uniform, got rid of the dead links and generally cleaned it up a bit. Hope you like! There will be a Finnish series in the autumn 2007, called "Leijonan kita", which literately translates to "Lions' jaws", but means the same thing in finnish. 194.251.240.113 20:05, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
 * It's my fault, I made the other article.. blame me for everything. It's just that I found a link to "Dragon's Den" and it had no article so I made one.. I had no idea about the spelling, seemed right. --Jamesbehave 01:01, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

The Big Idea
The show was clearly "inspired" by Dragons' Den. There was an article for the show, but someone merged it into Ruth Badger's article (for no logical reason, a bit like merging The Apprentice UK into Alan Sugar's article). I was going to unmerge it and re-write it, but I only watched 5 minutes (it was bad). If anyone else wants to attempt it (did anyone even see it?) I only mention it here because I thought it would be useful to have a See also link to that show in this article. Saikokira 18:40, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Screen capture
Do you think we could get a screenshot in the article? It could be a screen capture or a screenshot of the official website or both perhaps? I think it would be quite useful. --Javit 00:39, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Dragons' Den videos
It would be great if someone can post up links to any full-episode videos that people can watch. It is very frustrating that the BBC don't show missed episodes online anymore. Kit Temple 13:57, 30 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually, it wouildn't be great at all, it'd be illegal. Please take a look at WP:COPYVIO. The Islander 15:26, 30 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Perhaps it wouldn't be great but certainly not illegal. Copyright is not enforced by the police for that reason. Anyone who knows of the program bitorrent can find all of these episodes online and enjoy them at their own discretion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.105.69.64 (talk) 15:54, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Richard Farleigh dropping
This paragraph is different to the information in Richard Farleigh's article. Dates of announcement are different, reasons appear to contradict each other. Perhaps it is a case that each of the articles currently only contains half the information? Halsteadk 21:29, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

UK controversy
Should it be noted that James Caan, who replaced Richard Farleigh, is a muslim (and presumable an ethnic minority), as previous to that it says why they possibly replaced richard, to get someone in an ethnic minority on the show. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Samuelhale (talk • contribs) 22:53, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

It should if that's the case. If not, wikipedia would be raising unnecessary and meaningless controversy. You're playing with fire here.

CONTRIBUTION:

Here are some websites which may help whoever decides to fix this page - UltimateDingbat

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=580209 http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/realitytv/a58052/dragons-den-panellist-dropped.html http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article229864.ece http://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/tag/richard-farleigh/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/may/18/bbc.broadcasting1

From what i understand it was suggested he had been dropped for ethnic minority reasons, however no official statement has been made. However the SUn does say "natural progressions." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.204.167.15 (talk) 00:19, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Poland
There's a show called Kapitalny Pomysł (Great Idea) - don't know if it is linked to this or if it's a copy - but it looks incredibly similar (but only one contestant in the whole series gets money, not a few each episode). Malick78 (talk) 16:56, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

BBC America version
Anyone know if there is a difference between the BBC(UK) and the New BBC America versions? Are they in fact the same, or considered different? (diffrent crew cast etc). If it is a new version, should it be mentioned that the other American version that is coming up, entitled "The Shark Tank", are not the same? 74.63.224.66 (talk) 06:51, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Split/don't split
I agree a separate article about each season would be a better place to house this game-by-game information. However, I personally do not have the time in the near future to research each season adequately to add additional information beyond the game results. Until that happens, I would recommend continuing to house this information on this page. Jlhcpa (talk) 21:54, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Agreed -- split. However, instead of splitting them all instantly and putting out crappy articles, let's split off one by one as people feel like it. For example, I'll consider splitting off the Canada one into its own article.Kenojuak37 (Talk | Contribs) 20:57, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
 * If we can find enough people interested in writing the article, go for it! 65.92.141.7 (talk) 19:07, 18 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I'll help spiting the Canadian one. Cause personality I think I know a lot of information on Dragon Den on CBC so I would willingly help to get us started by just making a box Season 1 ,2, 3 ect Episodes, Then we could write another page on and about each episode for like season 1, 2 ,3 ect. So tag along if your interested. Jimmyeditor (talk) 15:00, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Dragons Den Romania - Arena Leilor
There is a romanian version of the show called The Lions Arena. The 7th season will air in the spring of 2011. This version is somewhat more educational as the Lions often tend to give free advice and council to the entrepreneurs. This is the official website of the show: http://www2.tvr.ro/arenaleilor/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.156.135.180 (talk) 11:40, 25 December 2010 (UTC)