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New York’s Funniest comedy competition winner Julian McCullough will host Discovery’s Shark After Dark, the late-night aftershow for the network’s iconic Shark Week, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary. This year, Shark After Dark is returning to its original live format, at 11 PM ET/PT. And, making his…

Eli Roth is returning as host Shark Week’s late-night talk show Shark After Dark, starting June 26 on Discovery Channel. For five consecutive nights, Roth again will wrangle celebrities, shark experts and shark obsessives on the half-hour show highlighting that night’s shark festivities and the next day’s lineup. Roth…

Discovery Channel announced this morning horror filmmaker Eli Roth will host this year’s Shark Week late-night talk show Shark After Dark. This is the third year for Shark After Dark, but the first time Roth will be hosting, five nights, 11-11:30 PM ET/PT, starting Sunday, July 5, joined by celebrity guests, shark…

Ashley Tisdale is the latest guest booked for this year’s Shark After Dark — Discovery's live Shark Week late-night talk show. She's joining Matt Walsh, Chelsea Handler, Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr., Robert Rodriguez, Danny Trejo, and Stone Cold Steve Austin, among others. This year's crop of guests aren't…

EXCLUSIVE: Discovery has had a change of heart about its Naked And Afraid after-show, Discovery After Dark — but it’s not what you think. The cable network isn’t chickening out after announcing the after-show with surprisingly little fanfare last month —  it’s changing the name and the host, to the much better Naked Af…

EXCLUSIVE: When the dust settled, Discovery Channel's Shark Week 2013 emerged as the most watched in the franchise's 26-year history. An average of 2.12 million people watched Shark Week in primetime, Discovery says, and nearly 29 million unique viewers sampled the orgy of shark-dom. Sunday's kickoff faux-documentary M…

Think Discovery Channel is fazed by the backlash that greeted the fake Megalodon documentary that kicked off its Shark Week on Monday? Not when its new late-nighter Shark After Dark made chum out of the talk show competition again Tuesday. The Josh Wolf-hosted talker bit off 1.19M total viewers, topping Conan, The Dail…

Sharknado! star Ian Ziering has been added to the guest list on Discovery Channel‘s first Shark Week after-show, Shark After Dark. Also signed: original Baywatch star David Hasselhoff, shark-diving WWE Wrestler Justin Gabriel, world-level surfer Laird Hamilton, as well as Alison Sweeney and Tom Green, despite their…

EXCLUSIVE: Back when Shark After Dark was announced — from after-show impresario Michael Davies (The Talking Dead, Watch What Happens Live) and CBS late-night host/avid Shark Week fan Craig Ferguson — Discovery Channel said it was lining up guests for its first late-night Shark Week after-show who were Shark…