# Dragons' Den (2005)

> Budding British entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas in three minutes to a panel of millionaire investors who decide whether to back them with their own money.

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## Facts

- Seasons: 23
- Episodes: 284
- Episode runtime: 60 min
- Status: Returning Series
- Genres: reality
- Network: BBC One, BBC Two
- Cast: Tej Lalvani, Sara Davies, Touker Suleyman, Rachel Elnaugh, Doug Richard, Piers Linney, Nick Jenkins, Sarah Willingham
- TMDB rating: 6.8/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443370/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: none
- Tone: brisk, candid, tense, wry, hopeful

## Synopsis

Dragons' Den (2005-present) is a British business reality competition produced for BBC One and BBC Two and still airing across more than twenty seasons. Budding entrepreneurs step into the den and get three minutes to pitch a business idea to a panel of five multi-millionaire investors, the Dragons, who each decide whether to put in their own cash. The principal Dragons include Peter Jones and Deborah Meaden, joined over the years by Sarah Willingham, Touker Suleyman, Sara Davies and Tej Lalvani. The engine of every episode is the pitch itself: a hopeful founder must sell a product or service in a few tense minutes, then survive pointed questions about margins, valuation and equity while the Dragons trade barbs and bargain over their stakes. Shape and scale come from a steady run of self-contained episodes, each a brisk competition with a rhythm of hope, rejection and deal making. The tone is wry, candid and British, with the atmosphere of a high stakes boardroom. Fans of Shark Tank, The Apprentice and The Great British Bake Off will find the same appetite for ambition, hard judgment and underdog triumph.

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