- Network: ABC
- Series Premiere Date: Aug 9, 2009
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The moneymen ask informed questions and make shrewd decisions, a welcome relief from Donald Trump's capricious calls on Burnett's "Celebrity Apprentice."
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ABC's Shark Tank is easily the best new reality TV show to air this summer (which, admittedly, isn't saying much).
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It sounds gimmicky and visually tedious, with most of the so-called action taking place in a conference room. It's all those things, but the moments of misery make it memorable.
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Mark Burnett's newest plunge into the reality waters--somewhat predictable, with all the requisite reality bells and whistles (lots of dark blue mood lighting, dramatic music, quick-cut editing)--is mildly entertaining in that summer TV kind of way.
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Brisk, sharp and surprisingly emotional for what essentially is a series of venture-capital-investment interviews, the show--based on the Japanese format "Dragons' Den"--balances the human element of its wish-fulfilling conceit with at least the illusion of the business legitimacy that made Burnett's "The Apprentice" such campy fun.
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The cleverest part of the show is that it makes the judges into contestants; they compete against one another for the right to invest in a business, and they haggle with the entrepreneurs over the terms of their investment.
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Once you get past its somewhat misleading title, Mark Burnett's new Shark Tank is a well-paced hour that offers entertainment without humiliation.
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Business buffs may love it, but Shark Tank lacks the lush visuals of "Survivor" and the star power of Trump. It just doesn't have the same bite.
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So is Shark Tank cathartic, or merely depressing? Perhaps appropriately, it's a little of both.
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The show is like watching fish getting shot in a barrel. It offers up poor souls with harebrained schemes and makes merry sport of eviscerating them.
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There are so many things I hate about his new show, In the Shark Tank, that I started numbering them just to calm down. Where to start?
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 89 out of 103
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Mixed: 2 out of 103
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Negative: 12 out of 103
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JohnSJan 8, 2010A disgusting show with disgusting people. If enough Americans watched it we would probably convert en masse to communism.
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asdasdaAug 17, 2009
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RonVAug 17, 2009