Posted on 10/02/2017 10:51:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Tonight marks the 2-hour season premiere of one of television’s top-rated, most critically acclaimed shows — one that curiously gets little media attention.
For nine seasons, “Shark Tank” — a competitive reality program in which inventors pitch to a panel of multi-millionaires (and one billionaire) — has been a consistent ratings winner despite ABC airing it in a Friday night graveyard slot. It’s won four Emmys for Outstanding Structured Reality Program. Last August, the show retained its audience against NFL pre-season games.
The success of “Shark Tank” has surprised even some sharks. “I thought it was going to be a failure,” Daymond John told CNBC earlier this year. “Nobody wants to listen to five businessmen and women talk! Who wants to watch that?”
Turns out about 10 million people do, eager to learn about margins, franchising, licensing, intellectual property and utility patents, amortization and customer acquisition, all of which somehow make edge-of-your-seat viewing.
Most compelling: “Shark Tank” is the American Dream in your living room week after week, a potent counterweight to our ongoing economic trauma. It’s hard to think of a more resonant-yet-aspirational reality show. So why doesn’t it garner as much media coverage as, say, “The Bachelor,” which equals and sometimes lags behind “Shark Tank” in viewers?
This disconnect seems another example of our two Americas: coastal elites forensically recapping and analyzing esoteric ratings losers (most recently “Twin Peaks”) while the heartland’s tastes go ignored. The scant coverage “Shark Tank” does get isn’t in People or Us Weekly but Forbes and Business Insider.
And that’s ridiculous, because it’s the most populist show on the air.
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Mark Cuban is a never Trumper and a kneeler. No thanks.
That’s exactly why I stopped watching Shark Tank.
Because these people really did build that - nobody else built it for them, and the MSM doesn't want to admit that.
-PJ
“Don’t wave your hand down on me,” Corcoran said to Cuban one episode. “I don’t like it. Cut it out.”
Cuban said nothing. Such moments are small yet bracing reminders that even self-made female multimillionaires still encounter sexism in the boardroom.
Nonsense.
If these people are truly "sharks," as they are billed, then they are expected to knock elbows with the rest of them. A female shark shouldn't expect a male shark to open the doors for her, and she should be expected to muscle into the discussion as forcibly as anyone else.
-PJ
There’s an under current of guilt for being a capitalist show. They’re constantly trying to throw in liberal nuggets to offset the fact the show is based on entrepreneurial and capital investment. Kevin is a hoot but l can understand those who dismiss him as an a-hole.
Stopped watching because of Cuban’s idiotic political rantings before last year. Years earlier he funded some of those anti-US Iraq movies that bombed. I eventually forgave him for that and tuned in but his constant Trump bashing got to me.
This is exactly what we were talking about yesterday:
"This disconnect seems another example of our two Americas: coastal elites forensically recapping and analyzing esoteric ratings losers (most recently “Twin Peaks”) while the heartland’s tastes go ignored."
I hate all of these scumbags except the little guy. The rest a snotty pukes who think it is funny to belittle people trying climb the ladder. Only watched on youtube when inventors turn the tables on these assholes and they whine about being “had” for free advertisement time by the “little guy.” Those episodes I enjoy.
new sharks include virgin air guy and the vita water guy...
cuban is being more vocal.
as per last night.
I have only seen Shark Tank broadcast on CNBC.
To be honest, I can't watch it because it has so many of the often bogus, hyper-emotional gimmicks you see on other reality programs.
Anyway, the link says this show is broadcast on ABC.
Are the episodes I see on CNBC just re-runs from ABC?
I use to watch when it first came out. I don’t watch anymore when Mark Cuban is on the panel. He’s insufferable to watch.
Strangely, besides some of the terrible shows my 12 year daughter watches, she actually watches Shark Tank. Only have caught bits of the show, but happy she is at least watching something not promoting collectivism.
Yes.
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