& # 39; Shark Fest & # 39; will represent sharks as outsiders

The great frenzy of summer sharks is about to attack a television near you

. The Nat Geo Wild SharkFest, its sixth annual edition, which will be spread over nearly two weeks of shark documentaries, begins on Sunday, July 27th.

Then there's the big white aperitif: Discovery's shark week, celebrating its 30th anniversary in "chumming the waters" with goodies backwards (including the 50 best snacks of the week sharks Sunday at 20h -22h). Jaws "July 21", leading to his official docu-week July 22-29.

Later comes the pure entertainment game. Sharknado's party of Syfy's Cheese Movies is also in its sixth year. But Syfy promises the premiere of August 19 "The Last Sharknado: It's About Time" will be his last bite.

Where television viewers wait, television provides proliferating sharks. "By choosing moments when the conversation is intense, especially in the summer, when families go to beaches and go on vacation, there is a real opportunity to entertain and enlighten," says Geoff Daniels, executive vice president. Nat Geo Wild World. General Manager, explaining why his chain jumped into the waters filled with sharks already occupied by Discovery's longevity network.

"From our point of view," says Daniels in a telephone interview, "SharkFest is an extraordinary celebration of sharks and the roles they play in the world's oceans." Daniels has spent 20 years in production television for National Geographic, the venerable society dedicated to exploration and education around the world. Rather than highlighting the fearsome image of animals and the supposed danger to humans, Wild wants to show "that they are much more intelligent and strategic than people think", [fr] [19659006] points to "700 Sharks", in first tuesday at 9pm as one of eight new productions of SharkFest. "It's the quintessence of everything we stand for," says Daniels. "We are working with leading scientists, having access to an ongoing study that examines the behavior of sharks in a novel way, with scientists diving in the middle of a shark frenzy in the middle of the night." . "Except it's not a blind scrum," he says. "Sharks work together in a hierarchical way, just like dolphin pods, with individual sharks interacting with each other." the others. "(By the way, these divers" are safe, "he notes," they are not targets. ")

SharkFest extends beyond cable TV with its" "shark catch" from Natgeotv.com, Facebook and other platforms, offering "the opportunity to chat in real time with some of the world's leading experts," says Daniels. "And we will bond with the initiative Planet or Plastic National Geographic, speaking of compromising our oceans and the health of our sharks.We want to make sure that this is not just a week of stunts. to broader, more relevant and engaged conversations about what's happening in the oceans, about climate change, pollution and overfishing, about things that are essential to life on earth.