• Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 9, 2009
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 11 Critics What's this?

User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 43 Ratings

  • Summary: Based on the Japanese reality show (also adapted in the UK as Dragon's Den, currently on BBC America), five successful businessmen and women judge budding entrepreneurs to determine whether to invest in their ideas or not.
  • Genre(s): Game Show
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 11
  2. Negative: 2 out of 11
  1. Reviewed by: Josh Wolk
    83
    The moneymen ask informed questions and make shrewd decisions, a welcome relief from Donald Trump's capricious calls on Burnett's "Celebrity Apprentice."
  2. 80
    ABC's Shark Tank is easily the best new reality TV show to air this summer (which, admittedly, isn't saying much).
  3. Once you get past its somewhat misleading title, Mark Burnett's new Shark Tank is a well-paced hour that offers entertainment without humiliation.
  4. Reviewed by: Laura Bennett
    30
    The show is like watching fish getting shot in a barrel. It offers up poor souls with harebrained schemes and makes merry sport of eviscerating them.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 26
  3. Negative: 9 out of 26
  1. carolyng
    10
    Loved this show!!! Sorry to see it off the air. I hope it will return soon. Fun and exciting to watch the 5 sharks interact as well as listening to how they make a decision on what is or is not a good investment. I found the show entertaining as well as educational. Expand
  2. TomE
    10
    As an Entrepeneur I look forward to watch this show every week. This is the closes thing to the real world situations for people with good ideas that are after funding. There are alot more to it but you can't put all of that in an hour show without boring people. I think they should bring guest investors to spice it up and follow up not only on those who got shark money and became successful but also on those who didn't get shark money but still found a way to become successful just because they got the exposure they needed to get their idea in front of many non-shark potential investors that they couldn't do other wise. I look forward to what next season will bring and will be happy to give more ideas to spice it up even more. Expand
  3. JeffreyE
    6
    Decent inventor show but fast forward through the filler crap about the backstories. I just want to see what they invented and whether the sharks will go for it. I don't care about where they are form or how many kids, etc. So for that reason alone, I can only give it a six. Expand
  4. RonV
    3
    Burnett didn't invent this show or concept!!! It's been going on up here in Canada for 2 years - in fact Kevin O and Robert are both on the CBC show up here in Canada!! Expand

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