Dragons' Den: Season 17
Dragons' Den is a British reality television business programme that centers on the high-stakes environment where budding entrepreneurs seek financial backing for their commercial ventures. Throughout the seventeenth season, the core format remains consistent, providing participants with a strictly limited window of three minutes to present their business ideas to a panel of five wealthy investors known as the Dragon
Season 17 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- The series is a British reality television programme based on an original Japanese format.
- Evan Davis serves as the presenter for the show.
- Entrepreneurs are granted exactly three minutes to pitch their business ideas to the investors.
- The panel consists of five wealthy investors, referred to as Dragons, who invest their own personal cash.
Season overview
Dragons' Den is a British reality television business programme that centers on the high-stakes environment where budding entrepreneurs seek financial backing for their commercial ventures. Throughout the seventeenth season, the core format remains consistent, providing participants with a strictly limited window of three minutes to present their business ideas to a panel of five wealthy investors known as the Dragons. These investors are multi-millionaires who evaluate the proposals and decide whether to offer their own personal capital in exchange for an equity stake in the companies being pitched. Hosted by Evan Davis, the series functions as a make or break opportunity for those seeking to scale their operations through professional investment. The narrative arc of the season is defined by the recurring tension of these pitches, as each entrepreneur must convince the panel of the viability and potential profitability of their concepts. The show is based on an original Japanese series and continues to document the direct negotiations between the business owners and the panel of investors, highlighting the financial risks and rewards inherent in the process of securing funding within the den.
Episode Guide
Season 17 Progress Shield
Episode 1
Nov 8, 2019 · 60 min
Crafting queen Sara Davies, joins Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Touker Suleyman and Tej Lalvani. In this episode, a spiced rum entrepreneur gets the party started with a rock 'n' ro
Episode 2
Aug 18, 2019 · 60 min
A pair of porridge entrepreneurs invite the Dragons to a teddy bears’ picnic and academic traditions are turned on their head by two graduates who are determined to disrupt an esta
Episode 3
Aug 25, 2019 · 60 min
The Dragons assess the profit-making potential of an eco-friendly entrepreneur's alternative to straws, a range of skincare products, a device designed to make bikes more visible,
Episode 4
Aug 30, 2019 · 60 min
Former Dragon Theo Paphitis returns to the panel to stand in for Touker Suleyman, joining Sara Davies, Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden and Tej Lalvani in assessing more business ideas.
Episode 5
Sep 8, 2019 · 60 min
The panel oversee more business propositions, with returning Dragon Theo Paphitis joining regulars Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Tej Lalvani and Sara Davies. Two entrepreneurs seeki
Episode 6
Sep 15, 2019 · 60 min
More plucky entrepreneurs prepare to enter the Den, but it won’t be easy to impress feisty multimillionaires Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Tej Lalvani, Sara Davies and former Dragon
Episode 7
Sep 22, 2019 · 60 min
Only the bravest business people dare to set foot in the Den, where multimillionaire investors Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Tej Lalvani and Sara Davies breathe fire. Joining them i
Episode 8
Dec 22, 2019 · 60 min
Dragons' Den is back with a positively festive feel. But seasonal goodwill is no guarantee of success for a new batch of entrepreneurs facing fiery multimillionaires Sara Davies, T
Episode 9
Mar 8, 2020 · 60 min
Tonight’s hopefuls include a beauty entrepreneur whose tools have a social as well as practical purpose and two low-alcohol brewers who hope the Dragons will stump up for the ultim
Episode 10
Mar 15, 2020 · 60 min
Tonight, a colourful hair entrepreneur offers one Dragon a new look - and all of them a new investment opportunity. A cheesecake maker has sweet dreams of a cash boost for his fran
Episode 11
Mar 22, 2020 · 60 min
Tonight, an inventor tries to recruit the Dragons for his war on household draughts, and a micro-businessman introduces the investors to the idea that dogs eating bugs could be a g
Episode 12
Mar 29, 2020 · 60 min
Syrian refugees Razan and Raghid Sandouk bring their British-made alternative to Cypriot halloumi to the Den, but will the Dragons think it is a tasty proposition? Breezing into th
Episode 13
Apr 3, 2020 · 60 min
A German-Portuguese business combo have their business, which makes camera lenses for mobile phones, brought into sharp focus, but will they be in the frame for investment?
Episode 14
Apr 12, 2020 · 60 min
Entrepreneurs face the fiercest line-up in business. Syrian refugees Razan and Raghid Sandouk bring their British-made alternative to Cypriot halloumi to the Den.