Discovery’s most jaw-dropping week of the yr has arrived within the 2025 TV schedule, with the thirty seventh annual Shark Week kicking off on July 20. Viewers can stay up for an assortment of nice whites, bulls, hammerheads, makos and extra past the standard heavy-hitters, however the week-long celebration of sharks is kicking off with a particular that is the primary of its type: Dancing with Sharks. None apart from former Dancing with the Stars host Tom Bergeron is on board, and returning Shark Week host Kinga Philipps spoke with CinemaBlend about why he was the right choose even when a DWTS mirrorball trophy is not concerned.
Dancing with Sharks is the primary installment of Shark Week 2025, airing on Sunday, July 20 at 8 p.m. ET on Discovery, adopted by the most recent entry within the fan-favorite Air Jaws sequence. Tom Bergeron is on board to host as 5 divers face off with underwater routines with sharks as their companions. Species embody hammerheads, tigers, and nurse sharks with their very own sorts of dance strikes. (In case you’re a Shark Week common, you doubtless have a very good guess about which a kind of three choices might be the least harmful underwater dance accomplice!)
Followers should tune in to see what it takes for a competitor to truly come out on high, however TV journalist and Shark Week returnee Kinga Philipps spoke with CinemaBlend throughout Discovery’s press junket for the seven-day occasion. She shared why Dancing with Sharks is a powerful selection for the very first present of this week’s whole lineup:
That is a terrific present to open up Shark Week as a result of it’s so novel, it’s so uncommon, and it’s so darn cool. I feel additionally why it is so enjoyable is folks do not know what to anticipate. You realize, I preserve getting the query of, ‘Are the sharks truly dancing?’ And the reply is, ‘Yeah, they really are.’ I feel individuals are actually going to be wowed by the sharks, the shark habits. There’s plenty of actually cool details about sharks, but additionally in regards to the expertise of the handlers themselves. I imply, they’re extraordinary.
Apparently, Discovery is not being sensationalist by releasing a present referred to as Dancing with Sharks, and there genuinely will likely be shark dancing! And similar to it was becoming to usher in Olympic nice Michael Phelps for a particular about shark swimming velocity, who higher to look in a present about dancing sharks than Tom Bergeron himself?
Whereas Tom Bergeron has had a protracted and prolific profession, he is doubtless finest identified for his years internet hosting America’s Funniest House Movies and naturally Dancing with the Stars. Now that the controversy surrounding his exit from DWTS has cooled down, he is bringing his dance internet hosting abilities to a program with rather more unruly performers than simply the celebs strutting their stuff. Kinga Philipps, who made historical past as the primary feminine Shark Week host in 33 years, shared what Bergeron brings to Dancing with Sharks:
I imply, Tom is a legend by way of and thru. He’s the nicest, most superior man. And actually, you recognize, he’s like the daddy of internet hosting, and since he’s a grasp of ceremonies for different dance exhibits, he was simply type of the right selection for this. I feel he was not solely good due to his background with Dancing with the Stars, but additionally simply the vitality that he brings to this, and the keenness and the joy and simply being such like a very good high quality human being. He is good.
Bergeron wasn’t solely a very good match for Dancing with Sharks as a result of he earned so many followers through Dancing with the Stars, and I discovered it candy to listen to that he introduced such a terrific vitality to a challenge that is so completely different from what he is labored on earlier than. I have never watched each episode of America’s Funniest House Movies when he was the host, however I am fairly assured that none of them concerned dancing sharks!
After I famous to Kinga Philipps that there is clearly a purpose why Tom Bergeron had a long time’ value of followers earlier than becoming a member of Shark Week, she responded “Precisely!” and confirmed that “it is all tried and true” as a result of he is “a terrific man.” For an early have a look at Bergeron’s return to internet hosting a dancing TV present (of kinds), try the clip beneath:
If nothing else, Tom Bergeron was capable of gown down extra for Dancing with Sharks than his normal swimsuit, tie, and pocket sq. from DWTS. Tune in to Discovery on Sunday, July 20 at 8 p.m. ET to take a look at Dancing with Sharks because the very first particular of Shark Week 2025. Of the species showcased within the clip, I do know I might choose a nurse shark if I needed to ship an underwater dance routine, however I will be happier to observe from the consolation of my land-locked sofa with regards to this manufacturing.
Shark Week will proceed with new specials within the primetime hours by way of Saturday, July 26. It simply stays to be seen if any information will likely be damaged this yr like what Shark Week 2024 with John Cena achieved. You may even have the choice to observe post-primetime with an HBO Max subscription.