I know it's gets staler each series, but I do miss Theo and his "why should I give you my kids inheritance" wise cracks, and dare I say it, but the Den doesn't seem the same without grumpy Duncan
I liked Piers Linney and Kelly Hoppen, although Piers seemed to stop investing towards the end.
So does anyone still watch it? Come on it's good entertainment value to watch muppets who have no idea how much money they turned over last year, or watch in disbelief at some of the crackpot ideas.
If you did see last Sundays, what do you think of the 3 new dragons? I recognised Sarah Willingham but had no idea why. The missus did a quick google and it seems she was a restaurant inspector on Raymond Blancs Restaurant series.
Wasn't inspired by Touker Suleyman or Nick Jenkins. No doubt they are business genius's but didn't warm to them, and found Suleyman annoying. Maybe I'm subconsciously trying to compare Touker to Theo, but it was show 1 so no doubt they are finding their feet and on screen personality.
I think I'd be more interested to see a new series focusing on previous investments, what happened, and see what/if any difference was made x years later. Be good to hear of more success stories other than Levi Roots. Be great to go the beginning, and see the difference cash and contacts made, moving forward 10 years, and how many investments came to nothing or didn't give a return. What happens then?
You hear about are the deals that go sour 6 months later after due diligence, but wonder how many regret giving away so much equity, and are now not as far along as they hoped? Then there must be plenty of success stories after 13 series, how many are living the high-life running multimillion pound businesses, or sold them on and made the various dragons a packet? Whose the winning investor, assuming it has to be Peter with his Levi protégé.
Come on BBC, theres a whole series worth of telly there ready and waiting
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