It's a show that actually made me think quite a lot about the behind the scenes machinations, because I can't believe that these guys, no matter how rich they are, are willing to just thrown down 50,000 or 75,000 pounds or some such amount. They get a little pitch from the entrepreneurs, but it didn't really seem like enough to base investing such huge quantities of cash on.

The dragons are, it seems, in no way required to invest in anyone's ventures over the course of a given episode, nor, it seems, is there a limit to the number of ventures they can participate in. It's not a zero sum game; someone doesn't have to lose for someone else to win, and that's fantastic. That's something we don't really get to see here in this country. Here, there would be a maximum amount of cash the dragons could invest over the course of the season and they'd have to put it all in one company and the entrepreneurs would have to jump through a ring of fire while riding a unicycle with a monkey climbing over their back in order to get the cash. In short, it would be far more similar to American Inventor, which is why that show only lasted two seasons and Dragons' Den is currently on its sixth in England.

Fine, call me an Anglophile or a BBC-phile if you want, you're probably right; but try and tell me I'm wrong about this. We'd do something bigger, but it just wouldn't be any better. You know it and I know it.