Shark Week 2012: TV Shows to Watch

by Emily Sutherlin | August 8, 2012 at 07:55 am

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Shark Week 2012 Begins August 12, 2012 at 9 p.m. ET on The Discovery Channel.

The much anticipated Shark Week begins Sunday. Launched in 1988, this year's event is celebrating its 25th year anniversary, with new specials such as "Shark Week's 25 Best Bites," which will "look back at the greatest breaches, brushes, and bites with the ocean's apex predator."
"Philip DeFranco, of 'The Philip DeFranco Show' on Revision3 will host the nightly event.

TV Premieres for Shark Week

AIR JAWS APOCALYPSE
Premiering Sunday, August 12, 9 p.m. ET
Picking up where 2011's Emmy®-nominated "Ultimate Air Jaws" left off, photographer, author and shark expert Chris Fallows and legendary natural history producer Jeff Kurr embark on a quest to learn more about the great white sharks of Seal Island, South Africa

SHARK WEEK'S IMPOSSIBLE SHOTS
Premiering Sunday, August 12, 10 p.m. ET
A team of wildlife cameramen head to Gansbaai, South Africa to try to secure a shot of a great white shark that no one has been able to get... yet. Their mission is to capture a previously unseen, and some say impossible, angle of a great white shark's Polaris breach.

SHARKZILLA
Premiering Monday, August 13, 9 p.m. ET
To celebrate the monumental 25th anniversary of Shark Week, Discovery is resurrecting the largest shark to ever swim in our oceans, a predator so fierce he could have bitten a T. rex in two: the mighty Megalodon, enlisting the help of MythBusters Kari Byron, Grant Imahara and Tori Belleci, the team puts these chilling chompers to the test.

MYTHBUSTERS' JAWSOME SHARK SPECIAL
Premiering Monday, August 13, 10 p.m. ET
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman have put themselves in some pretty hair-raising scenarios to bust the biggest shark myths over the years, and now they count down their top 25 of all time. The duo also takes on new myths, shows never-seen-before footage and reveals the #1 shark myth that will quite literally blow people away.

HOW JAWS CHANGED THE WORLD
Premiering Tuesday, August 14, 9 p.m. ET
This documentary takes a look at how one of the biggest blockbusters of all time, Jaws changed the cinema, blockbuster, and even the aftermath created a shark killing frenzy that almost wiped the sharks off the eastern seaboard. At the same time, public fascination with sharks led to a golden age of shark science that completely changed our view of the ocean and how it works

ADRIFT: 47 DAYS WITH SHARKS
Premiering Tuesday, August 14, 10 p.m. ET
During a routine search and rescue mission over the Pacific in WWII, an American plane crashed into shark-infested waters. This is the inspiring true story of two war heroes — one an Olympian, one a pastor's son — who managed to survive a record-breaking 47 days at sea in a life raft.

SHARK FIGHT
Premiering Wednesday, August 15, 9 p.m. ET
Dozens of shark attack victims around the world have devoted their lives to saving their attackers. They have turned what could have been tragedy into their life's mission, becoming some of the most powerful shark advocates on the planet. Meet the Shark Survivors and hear their stories of resilience and triumph as they fight what they consider the ultimate battle: saving sharks and our oceans.

GREAT WHITE HIGHWAY
Premiering Thursday, August 16, 9 p.m. ET
Right outside the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is home to some of the biggest great white sharks in the world... but only for part of the year. Teams of scientists from Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey Bay have spent years tagging and tracking these sharks to find out why they come here, why they leave and where they go when they do — out into the Pacific on the Great White Highway.

SHARK WEEK'S 25 BEST BITES
Premiering Thursday, August 16, 10 p.m. ET
Shark Week celebrates its 25th anniversary with a jaw-dropping look back at the greatest breaches, brushes, and bites with the ocean's apex predator. YouTube celebrity Philip DeFranco hosts.