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Andy Samberg + Lady Gaga = Greatest Shark Week ever?
Are you aware that Shark Week is cable television's "longest-running programming event?" Do you even know what that means?
It really doesn't matter, because as you will probably agree, Discovery Channel's summer block of shark-related programming is kind of a magical thing. Somehow it still finds ways to reinvent itself, 24 years into its run.
Previously-announced host and Chief Shark Officer Andy Samberg ("Saturday Night Live") will lend his particular brand of comedy to this year's festivities, and though he's only in the first promo for a fraction of a second, it's quite funny.
Pay close attention to Samberg's frightened mug inside a one-man submersible at approximately the 23-second mark -- after a montage of sharks choreograph their chomping to Lady Gaga.
Shark Week 2011 kicks off July 31 at 9:00 p.m. ET on Discovery Channel.
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OK, so Discovery have a long success story with "Shark Week." But while they air programs about shark attacks, or portray sharks as toothy monsters, sharks will never get the same success story. They're MUCH less dangerous than the media portray, yet, due to many people's misunderstanding of them, they've become critically endangered- the public need to know of the real nature of sharks, their important role in ocean ecosystems and the fact that they're cruelly over-fished & finned alive for asiatic soup. Then they'd be more inclined to want to help protect sharks, because the only horrific being who roams the ocean systematically killing creatures, is man.
Julie, you must not have watched it. They actually raise awareness for these sharks that are being killed by getting stuck in nets and by being hunted. The programs are educational, not just clips of shark attacks.