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For a full week, I dove in the Pacific with everything from a pack of Lemon sharks to a single 17-ft Tiger shark, but the moment we jumped in the water with stingrays, I was beyond spooked. This experience should have been a piece of cake, especially given the last few days of intense diving, where I literally could have lost my life to a shark, but if I never have to see another stingray I'll be ok with that. Our Discovery Channel Shark Week crew couldn't have disagreed with me more. From Shark After Dark host Eli Roth (who...

For a full week, I dove in the Pacific with everything from a pack of Lemon sharks to a single 17-ft Tiger shark, but the moment we jumped in the water with stingrays, I was beyond spooked.

This experience should have been a piece of cake, especially given the last few days of intense diving, where I literally could have lost my life to a shark, but if I never have to see another stingray I'll be ok with that.

Our Discovery Channel Shark Week crew couldn't have disagreed with me more. From Shark After Dark host Eli Roth (who...

As the host of Discovery Channel's Shark After Dark, Eli Roth knows a thing or two about sharks.

But one surprising fact about the ocean's apex predators? They don't like bubbles.

"The biggest misconception about sharks is that they are genuinely interested in attacking and eating people," says Roth.

"When they see humans underwater we are very large so we're almost their size. They're curious and they want to know what we are about, but as soon as you blow bubbles they swim away."

Roth spent a week diving in Tahiti for this year's Shark Week and if anything,...

As a brand new diver, jumping into the ocean in search of a tiger shark can be a very daunting task. For one, the tiger shark comes second only to Great Whites in attacking humans. But still, there I was in the French Polynesian islands with the Discovery Channel and Eli Roth about to go in search of one. It was just a month earlier in New York City, when my editor asked if I wanted to go diving with sharks in Tahiti for Shark Week. Without hesitation I jumped at the chance, but now looking directly at a 17-foot tiger shark headed my way,...

As a brand new diver, jumping into the ocean in search of a tiger shark can be a very daunting task.

For one, the tiger shark comes second only to Great Whites in attacking humans. But still, there I was in the French Polynesian islands with the Discovery Channel and Eli Roth about to go in search of one.

It was just a month earlier in New York City, when my editor asked if I wanted to go diving with sharks in Tahiti for Shark Week. Without hesitation I jumped at the chance, but now looking directly at a 17-foot tiger shark headed my way,...

As a brand new diver, jumping into the ocean in search of a tiger shark can be a very daunting task. For one, the tiger shark comes second only to Great Whites in attacking humans. But still, there I was in the French Polynesian islands with the Discovery Channel and Eli Roth about to go in search of one. It was just a month earlier in New York City, when my editor asked if I wanted to go diving with sharks in Tahiti for Shark Week. Without hesitation I jumped at the chance, but now looking directly at a 17-foot tiger shark headed my way,...

" When I sat down for a casual lunch in New York City with my editor, the Discovery Chanel head of PR, and Philippe Cousteau (yes, the Cousteau, (his grandfather is the legendary under water explorer Jacques Cousteau,) the last thing on my mind was going swimming with sharks for Shark Week. But, before we finished the guacamole and chips I had agreed to do exactly that. One month later I was a certified open water scuba diver, clinging to a rock 60-ft underwater in Tahiti, while a 17-ft Tiger shark loomed inches above my head.

Now my experience with sharks...

" When I sat down for a casual lunch in New York City with my editor, the Discovery Chanel head of PR, and Philippe Cousteau (yes, the Cousteau, (his grandfather is the legendary under water explorer Jacques Cousteau,) the last thing on my mind was going swimming with sharks for Shark Week. But, before we finished the guacamole and chips I had agreed to do exactly that. One month later I was a certified open water scuba diver, clinging to a rock 60-ft underwater in Tahiti, while a 17-ft Tiger shark loomed inches above my head. Now my experience with sharks...

Earlier this year, Eli Roth signed onto, then quickly departed, the long anticipated big screen adaptation of Meg. Upon exiting the giant killer shark movie, the acclaimed horror director wasn't quick to tell the world what he was doing next instead. Now we have an answer. The man behind the Hostel franchise is going to reboot Death Wish with Bruce Willis already confirmed for the lead role of Paul Kersey.

Death Wish follows nice a mild-mannered liberal, New York City architect Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson), who snaps after intruders break into his home, murdering his wife (Hope Lange) and violently raping his daughter. A business trip to Tucson, Ariz., lands him a gift from a client, a revolver he uses to patrol the streets when he returns home. Frustrated that the police cannot find the intruders, he become a vigilante, gunning down any criminal that crosses his path. The public finds this vigilantism heroic.

Director Eli Roth is best known for his gruesome horror films, affectionately and derisively described as “torture porn,” like “Hostel,” “Cabin Fever,” and most recently “The Green Inferno.” But with his last film, the sexual home invasion thriller “Knock Knock,” Roth has moved away from horror into other genre realms. Case in point: According to The Hollywood Reporter, Roth is attached to direct the remake of Michael Winner’s 1974 vigilante action film “Death Wish.” Bruce Willis is currently attached to star as the film’s protagonist.

In a recent interview with IndieWIRE’s Graham Winfrey, Roth says that he likes “originality and…when you take a classic thing and put your own twist on it. You watch a movie like ‘The Witch’ and it’s such a great, fantastic take on the classic New England witch fairy tale, and you say ‘Yeah that’s the type of movie that should be out there,...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, Discovery reminds you to be completely terrified as they’ve released their plans for Shark Week 2016. The cable network announced the 28th annual event celebrating the fanged fish will run between June 26 - July 3. During this time, Discovery will air nearly 20 different shows about sharks with titles like Air Jaws: Night Stalker, Nuclear Sharks and Sharksanity. The network will also bring back Shark After Dark, a late-night talk show hosted by horror maven Eli Roth. Shark Week has been a boon for Discovery. The 2015 version was the network’s highest rated yet, with shows averaging 1.27 million viewers. A program called Super Predator bought in 3.35 million viewers. As if that isn’t enough shark for you, SyFy will cap off July with the fourth installment of Sharknado. You’re never going swimming again, are you?...

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Eli Roth returns for more "shark n' awe." The director/producer/writer/actor will host the fourth season of Discovery's Shark After Dark late night TV talk show. Season four of Shark After Dark debuts Sunday, June 26 to Thursday, June 30, at 11:00pm Et/Pt, on Discovery.

"I'm so thrilled to be back for more Shark After Dark," said Roth. "Last year's experience was truly life changing, and I've become a huge advocate for these beautiful, intelligent creatures. I look forward to diving back in the waters, literally, and to interviewing the incredible experts who are doing so much to help sharks globally. We're going to make this the best Shark After Dark ever done, with lots of fun surprises."

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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 also returns as host of hourlong countdown show Shark Week Sharktactular. It’s Roth’s second season hosting the late-night franchise for Discovery’s popular…...

Cmt is giving you a great reason to stay up late; tonight is the premiere of The Josh Wolf Show. Comedian Josh Wolf, who is known for his recurring role on Chelsea Lately and host of Shark After Dark, and the Naked and Afraid after show Naked After Dark, will examine pop culture through his self-deprecating but overwhelmingly positive lens. The series airs four nights a week (Thursday through Sunday) beginning Thursday, June 11 at 11:00 – 11:30 p.m. Et/Pt. Wolf and I had a chat about his new gig and he’s bringing his easy to talk to energy and … Continue reading →

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Sixty-nine days before Discovery is scheduled to unveil Shark Week 2014, Syfy this afternoon announced its first Sharknado Week — which, yes, includes the July 30 debut of Sharknado 2: The Second One. It also will feature the unveiling of Syfy’s new Roger Corman film Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda, which premieres Saturday, July 26. That means it will beat Shark Week to TV by more than two weeks. Discovery Communications execs were said to be less than thrilled with Syfy’s announcement, stopping short of calling it a blatant rip-off. But after Discovery had nicely invited Sharknado stars Ian Ziering and Tara Reid to be guests on last year’s Shark After Dark, this seems along the lines of stealing the silver on the way out. In its announcement, Syfy even used some of Discovery’s traditional Shark Week slanguage — “fintastic” and such. Here is Syfy’s announcement: Highlights Of Syfy’S Sharknado Week...

Discovery Channel has revealed the dates and early line-up for its wildly (get it? Get It?) popular Shark Week, the network’s almost 30-year-old annual summertime event.

Shark Week 2014 will kick off on Discovery Sunday, August 10, and will continue all week long with new programming during primetime followed each night by the hourlong special Shark After Dark, airing live at 11 p.m., featuring shark experts and celebrity guests (last year’s included Tara Reid and Dominic Monaghan) breaking down the evening’s events.

Following up on last year’s most-watched Shark Week ever, this summer the network scuba-suits have assembled...

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 After Dark, and to Josh Wolf, respectively. Wolf, known to some for his panelist appearances on Chelsea Lately, is maybe best known to Discovery viewers as host of its wildly popular Shark Week after-show Shark After Dark. Bob Oschack is back with Wolf, this time as Bob The Blur — he was Bob The Shark in Shark After Dark. And Taryn Southern will be the new show’s “social correspondent.” We regret to say absolutely no one will be naked during Naked After Dark — not even the Naked And Afraid competitors with whom Wolf will talk about that night’s episode,...

Since "Sharknado" become a phenomenon, the Discovery Channel decided to bring actress Tara Reid for its "Shark After Dark" talk show panel, which is part of the channel's Shark Week. It turns out that being cast in "Sharknado" doesn't mean that you have to know a single thing about sharks. In fact, Reid admitted that the first time she did any research on the topic was in preparation for the show. She said: "I don't wanna sound stupid when I do this show today, so I learned a little education on sharks. I look up sharks on the Internet and I see whale sharks. So I'm like that must mean that a whale and a shark have sex and then it made me think how do a whale and a shark have sex?" At this point it became clear that Reid's attempt to sound smart was backfiring. So she decided...

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 Daily Show, Colbert et al. for the second consecutive night. It also beat the competition in the key demos. Shark Week programming led Discovery to win the Tuesday primetime cable race outright in adults 25-54 and several other demos, with Spawn Of Jaws and I Escaped Jaws ranking as cable’s highest-rated shows in 18-49. No official numbers yet in the seals 0-40 demo.

Have you ever wanted a lesson in marine biology from a learned celebrity? Well, this isn't going to be it.

On Tuesday night, Tara Reid and her "Sharknado" co-star Ian Ziering appeared on "Shark After Dark," a live show that runs at night as part of the Discovery Channel's Shark Week lineup.

At one point in the show, Reid announced that she had done some prior research because she didn't want to sound "stupid," before launching into some utterly incoherent rambling on sharks:

"So I look up sharks on the Internet and I see whale sharks. And I'm like it must mean a whale and a shark had sex. And then I think, well how does a whale and shark have sex? ... Because whales are mammals, and sharks are animals. They have nothing to do with each other," Reid explained as Ziering and the show's host Josh Wolf didn't...

Tara Reid didn't spend enough time doing her homework. Appearing on Discovery's Shark After Dark with Sharknado co-star Ian Ziering on Tuesday, Aug. 6, the 37-year-old actress confused the audience -- and herself -- while discussing the mating habits of animals. "How do a whale and a shark have sex?" she asked. "Today, I was like, all right, I don't wanna, like, sound stupid when I do this show today, like. . . so I learned a little education on sharks," Reid explained to host Josh Wolf. [...]...

It's that special time of the year, TV Fanatics.

With Peter Capaldi installed as the new Doctor Who, and The Pied Piper revealed on The Killing, we can go ahead and concentrate on what lies ahead: sharks, sharks and more sharks.

Yes, Shark Week is officially underway on The Discovery Channel, with every night this week set to be filled with numerous programs and specials dedicated to these dangerous creatures. Scroll down now and set your DVR accordingly...

Shark After Dark, 11 p.m. every night: A 60-minute long live talk show hosted by comedian Josh Wolf celebrating all things sharks! Guests will include celebrities, shark experts and attack survivors.

Return of Jaws, tonight 9 p.m.: Chilling footage caught by the Shark Cam, which tracked Great White sharks living and hunting off the shores of Cape Code where Jaws was filmed.

Voodoo Sharks, tonight 10 p.m.: An investigation of...

It's one of the most anticipated animal events of the year, second only to the Puppy Bowl during the Super Bowl (though we are more partial to the kitten halftime show). It's Shark Week! The toothy fun started yesterday, but you might have been too busy reacting to the new Doctor Who casting to notice. Fret not! We have your easy guide to all the specials, documentaries and whatnot happening during Shark Week. Shark After Dark, 11 p.m. every night: An hour-long late-night live talk show hosted by comedian Josh Wolf celebrating all things sharks! Guests will include celebrities, shark experts and attack survivors. Return of Jaws, Monday 9 p.m.: Chilling footage caught by the Shark Cam, which tracked...

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 lack of known shark connections. Shark After Dark premieres tonight and will air each night during Shark Week from 11-midnight Et/Pt. Josh Wolf — best known for his regular appearances on E’s Chelsea Lately — is hosting, despite having no love for sharks. 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 Week-passionate or had shark connections.

New York — Comic Josh Wolf may not want to hear the word "shark" after next week, much less bump into one.

Discovery has given him a unique assignment: host an hour-long talk show for five nights in a row on the menacing beast, a new wrinkle in the network's annual "Shark Week."

"Shark After Dark" will debut Sunday at 11 p.m. Edt.

Wolf, who's a recurring character on Fox's "Raising Hope" and perhaps best known as a regular guest on E! Entertainment's "Chelsea Lately," said he's looking forward to the challenge.

"Not only have I always been fascinated with `Shark Week,' I've always wanted to do a late-night talk thing," he said. "That's been on the bucket list. This kills two birds with one stone."

So how do you fill an hour each night with chatter about a creature that does all its talking with its teeth?

Wolf will...

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 Week-passionate or had shark connections. Mark Cuban, of course, stars in ABC’s Shark Tank. Close enough. Lost fave Dominic Monaghan now stars in BBC America’s nature show, Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan which that network announced is returning for another season in 2014. And Tara Reid is enjoying a career resuscitation as one of the two-legged scenery chewers in Syfy’s flick/media darling Sharknado! which, in its third run on the network, snagged its biggest audience yet — 2 mil plus. Related: Syfy Orders ‘Sharknado 2′ Shark After Dark premieres this Sunday and will air each night during Shark Week from 11-midnight Et/Pt.