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American Inventor: ABC
June 6, 2007

“The audition segments are mostly hilarious.”(New York Post)“I was often moved by the dedication and heart on display.” (Los Angeles Times)“Despite all its contrived reality melodrama, ''American Inventor" features a steady stream of entertainingly kooky and cool creations.” (Boston Globe)“The results suggest that everyone involved looked at American Idol too closely. And this time around, everyone is startlingly off-key.” (Orlando Sentinel)“Tonight's premiere is often a huge time-waster, but when it's not boring viewers with the umpteenth meet-the-judges segment and sticks to introducing wacky inventors, it's kind of a hoot.” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) “How un-innovative is this series about innovation? Let me count the ways.” (New York Daily News)“[Its] intolerable length helps to illuminate the cynicism of these competition shows.” (Philadelphia Inquirer) “At almost every level, "American Inventor" is over-produced.” (Variety)“The joke goes from bad to grim within minutes.” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) “An appalling amalgam of humiliating ridicule, primitive humor and heartbreaking pathos, "American Inventor" flies in on wings of sap.” (Washington Post) “A low-rent "American Idol" ripoff.” (Chicago Sun-Times)“The worst unscripted outing to hit the airwaves in many a moon.” (Chicago Tribune)“"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.” (Newsday)

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