In this age of shelter-in-place restrictions, TV programmers are scrambling to find inventive ways to seize your attention while you’re housebound.
And so the Discovery Channel is inviting you to “sit back, relax and put your fins up” for a “Shark Week in a Weekend” binge session.
Yes, television’s longest-running summer TV event will swim onto screens for a special weekend marathon featuring a lineup of fan-favorite episodes. It promises to take viewers to oceans around the world with a team of renowned marine biologists and science institutions to deliver “groundbreaking shark stories incorporating innovative research technology and revealing compelling insight into the mysterious world of sharks.”
Sounds … well, kind of jawsome to us.
The “Shark Week in a Weekend” marathon airs all day Saturday, April 4 beginning at 9 a.m. and continues Sunday, April 5 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Here’s the fin-tastic schedule:
Saturday, April 4
9 a.m. — SHARK VORTEX
10 a.m. — GREAT HAMMERHEAD INVASION
11 a.m. — SHARKS OF THE BADLANDS
Noon — ALIEN SHARKS: STRANGER FINS
1 p.m. — AIR JAWS STRIKES BACK
2 p.m. — LAWS OF JAWS: DANGEROUS WATERS
3 p.m. — RONDA ROUSEY UNCAGED
4 p.m. — PHELPS VS. SHARK: GREAT GOLD VS. GREAT WHITE
5 p.m. — SHAQ DOES SHARK WEEK
6 p.m. — GUY FIERI’S FEEDING FRENZY
7 p.m. — BEAR VS. SHARK
8 p.m. — EXPEDITION UNKNOWN: MEGALODON
9 p.m. — CAPSIZED: BLOOD IN THE WATER
11 p.m. — THE SHARKS OF HEADSTONE HELL
Midnight — AIR JAWS: THE HUNTED
1 a.m. — SHARK WEEK’S ISLE OF JAWS
3 a.m. — SHARKWRECKED: CRASH LANDING
Sunday, April 5
9 a.m. — MONSTER HAMMERHEAD
10 a.m. — SHARK-CROC SHOWDOWN
11 a.m. — MONSTER MAKO: PERFECT PREDATOR
Noon — SHARK CAM STAKEOUT
1 p.m. — TIGER SHARK INVASION
2 p.m. — CUBA’S SECRET SHARK LAIR
3 p.m. — AIR JAWS: FIN OF FURY
4 p.m. — EXTINCT OR ALIVE: THE LOST SHARK
5 p.m. — LEGEND OF DEEP BLUE
6 p.m. — NAKED AND AFRAID OF SHARKS
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