How many seasons does Shark Week have?

Shark Week has 38 seasons and 439 episodes.

Is Shark Week renewed or canceled?

Shark Week is currently returning. A premiere date has not been announced yet.

Where can I watch Shark Week?

Shark Week is available on Discovery. You can stream it on HBO Max, HBO Max Amazon Channel, Discovery+ Amazon Channel, Discovery.

Shark Week

Name: Shark Week
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1988-07-17
Rating: 7.6

RETURNING38 Seasons439 Episodes★ 7.6

NetworkDiscovery

First AiredJul 17, 1988

Last AiredJul 26, 2025

GenreDocumentary

Runtime42 min

The Discovery Channel's Shark Week, first broadcast on July 17, 1987, is a weeklong series of feature television programs dedicated to sharks. Held annually, normally in July or August, Shark Week was originally developed to raise awareness and respect for sharks. It is the longest-running cable television programming event in history. Now broadcast in over 72 countries, Shark Week is promoted heavily via social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

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Seasons & Episodes38 seasons · 439 episodes

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2025 Season of Shark Week

E1Dancing With Sharks

Jul 20, 202545m

Hosted by Tom Bergeron, "Dancing with Sharks" features five divers partnered with sharks -- including hammerheads and tigers! Each routine is unique, with signature underwater moves; a winner will be crowned, but can all the competitors make it that far?

E2Air Jaws: The Hunt for Colossus

Jul 20, 202542m

A 20-foot great white breaches in New Zealand, launching a hunt for Colossus—the legendary high-flying shark that may lead to a hidden colony of great whites.

E3Great White Assassins

Jul 20, 202542m

Alison Towner and Dickie Chivell investigate how killer whales hunt great whites, with Dickie diving disguised as an orca in New Zealand.

E4Great White Sex Battle

Jul 21, 2025

Great white male and female sharks battle each other in a series of contests to prove which is the superior sex.

E5Jaws vs Mega Croc

Jul 21, 2025

Using data gathered in new experiments, Tristan Guttridge, Rosie Moore and Dr. Sora Kim construct a CGI fight to the death between two of the biggest and baddest apex predators in the water -- the great white shark and Nile crocodile.

E6In the Eye of the Storm: Shark Storm

Jul 21, 2025

In the summer of 2024, dozens of cameras captured a rare outbreak of shark attacks along America's Gulf Coast. Told exclusively through first-hand accounts of victims and eyewitnesses, nobody has seen all these perspectives unfold in real time until now.

E7Great White North Invasion

Jul 22, 2025

Great whites flood the quiet shores of Nova Scotia, threatening locals and igniting a mission to track the biggest sharks to identify the most dangerous areas before a deadly encounter.

E8How To Survive A Shark Attack

Jul 22, 2025

Shark attack survivor Paul De Gelder attempts the unthinkable -- provoking sharks to attack him and rip off his limbs so that he can reveal what it takes to survive an attack.

E9Black Mako of the Abyss

Jul 22, 2025

A mysterious and aggressive shark emerges from the deep off California's coast, sparking a race to catch it and reveal whether it's an enormous mako, a mutant or a great white-mako hybrid.

E10Expedition Files: Shark Files

Jul 23, 2025

There's blood in the water as Josh Gates investigates the strangest shark mysteries ever told -- from the real-life inspiration for Jaws to the shocking case of a tiger shark in captivity that vomited a human arm and helped police solve a gruesome murder.

E11Expedition X: Malpelo Monster Shark

Jul 23, 2025

Josh Gates sends Phil and Heather on their riskiest mission yet -- tracking a legendary 20-foot shark lurking in the eerie waters off Colombia's Malpelo Island. After seeing chilling footage, Josh tasks his team with uncovering the predator's identity.

E12Alien Sharks: Death Down Under

Jul 23, 2025

Wildlife biologist Forrest Galante goes rogue in Australia. Diving into the land's dangerous waters, he searches for two venomous alien sharks and cuts through years of red tape to test their venom's toxic, and possibly deadly, potency -- on himself.

E13Surviving Jaws

Jul 24, 2025

Fifty years after Jaws terrified beachgoers, marine biologist Tom "Blowfish" Hurd and ecologist Michelle Jewell dive with great whites to separate fact from fiction -- like whether skinny dipping is risky or if a shark could really chew through a boat.

E14Caught! Sharks Strike Back

Jul 24, 2025

People have captured a record number of shark encounters on camera, from a hilarious moment when a shark slaps a fisherman in the face to an intense 10 minutes when a great white stalks a kayaker ... these are the craziest moments when sharks strike back.

E15Frankenshark

Jul 24, 2025

Shark expert Tristan Guttridge and his mad scientist team use CGI to build the ultimate "Frankenshark." Pulling from a variety of shark species, they build the deadliest, weirdest shark on the planet.

E16Great White Reign of Terror

Jul 25, 2025

After nine great white attacks off South Africa's "wild coast" leaves locals reeling, scientists Ryan Johnson, Gibbs Kuguru and Andy Casagrande race to uncover the cause before there's another fatality.

E17Florida's Death Beach

Jul 25, 2025

Welcome to New Smyrna Beach -- Florida's spring break hotspot and the Shark Attack Capital of the World. Wildlife biologist Forrest Galante investigates to figure out why this party spot has become so deadly before more blood ends up in the water.

E18Bull Shark Showdown

Jul 25, 2025

American bull sharks throw down with Ozzie bulls in a wild competition to determine which one is superior. Paul De Gelder provokes his Australia bulls to perform against Craig O'Connell and Florida's fiercest bull sharks.

E19Attack Of The Devil Shark

Jul 26, 2025

A rogue tiger shark kills two people in the Caribbean, sparking fear that it's the legendary Devil Shark. A team tracks the shark behind the attacks and uncovers a seismic force driving sharks to aggression in these waters.

E20Battle for Shark Mountain

Jul 26, 2025

Off Mozambique's coast, sharks swarm a hidden peak, hunting giant trevally in a once-a-year feeding frenzy. But when 5,000 trevally fight back, the hunters become the hunted in one of the ocean's wildest showdowns.

About Shark Week

Shark Week is a documentary series on Discovery. The show first aired on Jul 17, 1988 and currently has 38 seasons and 439 episodes. Shark Week has been renewed and is returning for more episodes. It has a rating of 7.6/10 based on 17 votes.