Shark Week is doing quite swimmingly in its 30th year. Discovery ranked No. 1 in Live+3 among all TV networks — broadcast and cable — with its Sunday night primetime lineup of dorsal-finned shenanigans that featured Shaquille O’Neal and Ronda Rousey.

The first night of Shark Week 2018 topped all primetime competition a…

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 triumphan…

Discovery’s 30th anniversary Shark Week is just around the corner and, on July 1 the network unveils the latest promo in its clueless celebrities – or, as Discovery calls it, its “fans in all sort of high places” – campaign.

This time it’s famed snowboarder Shaun White who thinks he’s been signed by the network to…

Phelps Vs Shark has taken home gold for Discovery as Shark Week’s highest-rated telecast ever in key demos.

The July 23 special, in which Olympian Michael Phelps went fin-to-fin with a CGI shark, averaged more than 5 million total viewers, making it the highest-rated Shark Week special ever across P25-54, W25-54, and…

Olympian Michael Phelps’ highly promoted race with a great white shark on the kickoff to Discovery’s Shark Week programming Sunday night has drawn Twitter outrage from some disappointed viewers.

Nearly an hour into the Shark After Dark, program scientist and ecologist Tristan Gutteridge was heard saying "Clearly, we…

Discovery Channel has unveiled details of this year’s Shark Week, debuting Sunday, July 23.

Eli Roth is hosting, Olympian Michael Phelps gets schooled on all things 'shark' at Bimini Shark Lab, Chris Noth narrates Sharks and the City: New York. Singer/songwriter Seal pitches in too – if briefly.

In its 29th season, Sh…

Discovery Channel is unveiling 18 new series and 20 returning series for its 2017-2018 season for its upfront presentation to advertisers today in New York. New series and specials in the works at Discovery Communications’ flagship network include its scripted anthology series debut Manhunt: Unabomber, which has…

Discovery Networks International and Discovery U.S. are teaming with UK-based production company betty on a six-part series chronicling search and rescue units atop the world’s highest mountain. Everest Rescue will be broadcast later this year on DNI’s factual networks across 220 countries, including the U.S. Liz…

Discovery has released the gory details of its annual feeding frenzy that is Shark Week. The toothy programming block turns 28 this year and again will be unleashed in prime beachgoing season — this time June 26-July 3. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.

Among the fresh meat this year is Discove…

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 released its first 2016 Shark Week promo – no snacking on baby seals this year, but there is a sly nod to mermaids, who did so much for Discovery Communications’ Animal Planet ratings, if not its credibility, a few years back.

The promo comes with word the network’s popular orgy of sharkness will run …

Though we’re a long way from the kind of virtual reality getups predicted back in the 1990s, the technology has been steadily improving. Currently used primarily in video games, the tech nonetheless has interesting implications for entertainment in other mediums. So it goes that networks, keenly interested in drawing a…