Following seven days of filming, the Sharks are taking a well deserved break, after finishing filming season 2 of ABC’s Shark Tank. ABC ordered eight episodes of Shark Tank staring Kevin O’Leary, Barbara Corcoran, Robert Herjavec and Daymond John. This season Jeff Foxworth and Mark Cuban both guest stared for three episodes, and Kevin Harrington returned to fill in for the last two episodes.
Shark Tank is produced by Mark Burrnett and is an adaptation of the overseas hit Dragons Den. Ambitious entrepreneurs from across the country will have the opportunity to pitch their businesses to the Sharks, who are titans in their respective industrious. If the entrepreneurs have a good idea then the Sharks might invest their own money in the businesses. Shark Tank is set to return early in 2011.
There is no news yet about a second season of Shark Tank, but if you’re interested in pitching your business to wealthy investors than Dragon’s Den is your show. CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) has started a coast-to-coast search for creative ideas and money-making businesses. Dragon’s Den is the same concept as Shark Tank, it even stars two of the Sharks Robert and Kevin O as Dragons.
In the past Americans have appeared on the show, and I do not see anything in the rules that forbid American citizens from addition.
You can addition in person at one of 40 sites across Canada, or online by filling out this application form.
Here is a partial list of additions locations:
March 6, Toronto and Winnipeg
March 8, Victoria and Windsor
March 13, Vancouver
March 16, and 17, Edmonton
March 19, and 20, Calgary
March 20, Montréal
March 22, Québec City and Waterloo
March 23, Fredericton
March 25, Yellowknife
March 26, Charlottetown
March 28, Halifax
March 30, Whitehorse
March 30, St. John’s
April 1, Hamilton
April 8, Thunder Bay
April 10, Toronto
April 17, Ottawa
Make sure you bring the completed audition consent and release form.
For more information click here.
Good luck and I hope to have more news about the second season of Shark Tank, when it comes available.
Before Kevin O’Leary and Robert Herjavec were Sharks they were Dragons. Dragons’ Den is the show that inspired Shark Tank, it airs in different formats around the world. The 4th season of the Canadian version will premier on September 30th on CBC.
Dragon’s Den (the Canadian version of Shark Tank) is in the middle of a cross country audition tour. They have been stopping in both small and large city’s. Here is an article from the Canadian Press:
TORONTO — The economic downturn has drawn out more entrepreneurial spirit than ever, the producers of CBC-TV’s reality business series “Dragon’s Den” said Thursday as they continued their search for Canada’s next great tycoon.
The show is in the midst of a cross-country audition tour that has brought scouts to such hard-hit regions as the Ontario communities of Windsor and Oshawa, which have borne the brunt of car manufacturing layoffs, and a first-ever stop in Campbell River, B.C., an area hit in recent years by pulp mill closures that threw hundreds of people out of work.
Associate producer Lindsey Neely says turnout has been strong and varied.
“We thought maybe with the recession that people are going to be playing it safe, that they’re not going to want to pitch their own businesses but I think it’s really been the opposite,” Neely said Thursday by phone from a stop in St. Catharines, Ont.
“People are looking for new things to do, where it’s someone who’s worked at a company for 25 years and they’ve been laid off and maybe they’re hurt and they’re upset and they’re thinking: `Why am I spending all this time working for somebody else when I could be working for myself and all this hard work I’m putting in should be going back to me?”‘
“I’d say almost a third of our pitchers are people that have lost their jobs at car manufacturing plants,” associate producer Rich Maerov said of investment seekers from the southern Ontario region.
“From last year, I’d say, there’s probably twice as many people that are unemployed right now. On the one hand, I think it’s sad to see that but on the other hand it’s actually instigating some thinking outside-the-box,” he said from a stop in Quebec City.
Robert Herjavec spoke briefly at the end of the article about Shark Tank
This year, Herjavec and O’Leary will be examining twice as many deals, since they’re both also cast as judges on the U.S. version of the show, “Shark Tank.” Produced by reality TV titan Mark Burnett (“Survivor,” “The Apprentice”), it’s set to debut on ABC in January.
Herjavec said the U.S. show will be a harder-edged take on the franchise, which originated in Japan and has spawned versions in England, Australia and eastern Europe. That tougher stance is clear by the name-change, he notes.
“It’s a typical American versus Canadian thing. The Americans, they don’t just want you to be a shark, they want you to be a shark who’s about to kill and eat something,” he said.
“We’re going to be the American sharks, proving that Canadians, once again, are much better at everything,” he joked.
I am excited to find out that the show will be “harder-edged” then Dragon’s Den. I expect the Sharks to be much more like Simon Cowell, blunt, to the point and at times quite critical. Kevin O’Leary will fit right in, take a look at this clip from the seond season of Dragon’s Den and you will see what I mean.
Get ready to swim with the sharks. The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Mark Burnett and ABC will bring the popular U.K. reality show “Dragon’s Den” to an American audience.
Entrepreneurs will pitch their business to five Multimillionaire investors (Sharks). The Entrepreneurs must then convince the Sharks to invest at least what they have asked for or they go home empty handed.
“People are looking to be entrepreneurs to get ahead, yet there’s no way anybody can go into a bank right now and get a loan,” Burnett said. “For these entrepreneurs, these sharks are their last stop.”
The ABC version will be called Shark Tank and will be bigger than previous shows.
“We have made bigger deals and more deals in our pilot than (other versions) make all season,” Burnett said.
“We’ve been excited about the ‘Dragon’s Den’ format for years, but we didn’t go forward at first because we thought it felt too small,” said Vicki Dummer, co-head of alternative at ABC.
The pilot was going to be shot in a huge auditorium, with the sharks seeing behind a desk. Unlike the U.K. and Canadian version where the space is small and intimate and the “Dragons” are seated in simple chairs. Some of the changes distracted from what made Dragon’s Den great: the interpersonal tension between ambitious entrepreneurs struggling to convince five strangers to part with their money.
“The layers we added for a big huge show we’ve ended up peeling back to make the show more like the original,” Dummer said. “The core essence of the show works, and they’ve done a terrific job with it.”
Although no airdate has been announced I would assume that it will premiere next season.
“What country on earth is more entrepreneurial and risk taking than the United States of America? Here we have businesses and jobs being created, and it’s a great feeling.” Says Burnett
Every wonder what Dragons’ Den looks like around the world?
Well the BBC ran a special episode over Christmas.
In this special episode, we get to see how the show has fared around the world with many international spin offs. Over the years there have been many craxy inventions come in front of the Dragons, some of which are highlighted in this episode. There is also some interviews with Dragons from around the world and also what the UK Dragons think of them.
