American Inventor

[Caropooh]

My DD's and I watched about 20 minutes of this show last night after "My Name is Earl." We don't really get it. I looked on the site for the show to see if it explains what will happen each week. It doesn't really explain it. I understand that viewers will vote, but what are they voting for? What do the inventors do in the next round?
Can anyone help us?

 

[Daisy Duck 5]

The winner get 1 million dollars to help promote their product and about 12 runner ups get $50,000. I guess next week they will just go to another city but I'm not sure. It is a great show though.

 

[Caropooh]

anyone else have any ideas on how this show works?

 

[JANNYANS]

Here you go we used to have this programme on TV here although the money wasn't as much .
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A panel of expert judges will narrow down the initial entries to a group of finalists, who will each be given $50,000 to develop their product, refine it and take it to the next level. This is a show that's going to make the American dream come true for one person -- taking his/her idea, vision and creativity and helping to turn it into a mass produced product that will be in every American home -- but in the end it will be up to America to call in and vote on which invention is worthy of the one million dollar prize.