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  • ABC
  • Mar 16, 2006
  • ABC
  • Mar 16, 2006
American Inventor

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 wer...

  • ABC
  • Mar 16, 2006
  • ABC
  • Mar 16, 2006
American Inventor
Season 1
Season Premiere: Mar 16, 2006
Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
29
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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 wer...

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
29
13% Positive
2 Reviews
20% Mixed
3 Reviews
67% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
29
13% Positive
2 Reviews
20% Mixed
3 Reviews
67% Negative
10 Reviews

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75
The audition segments are mostly hilarious.
By Adam Buckman FULL REVIEW
50
Despite all its contrived reality melodrama, ''American Inventor" features a steady stream of entertainingly kooky and cool creations.
By Matthew Gilbert FULL REVIEW
38
How un-innovative is this series about innovation? Let me count the ways.
By David Hinckley FULL REVIEW
25
A bloated disappointment that spends more time on the judges than the inventors and their inventions.
By Mike McDaniel FULL REVIEW
20
At almost every level, "American Inventor" is over-produced.
By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW
0
"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.
By Verne Gay FULL REVIEW
0
A low-rent "American Idol" ripoff.
By Doug Elfman FULL REVIEW

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