Shark (American TV series)
- For other uses, see Shark (disambiguation).
| Shark | |
|---|---|
| File:Shark Season1.jpg The Cast of Shark. | |
| Directed by | Spike Lee |
| Starring | James Woods Jeri Ryan Samuel Page Danielle Panabaker Sophina Brown Sarah Carter Henry Simmons |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| No. of episodes | 16 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 Minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | CBS |
| Release | September 21 2006 – present |
Shark is a drama series featuring James Woods and Jeri Ryan, about a notorious Los Angeles defense attorney who becomes a prosecutor. It premiered on CBS in Fall 2006, in the 10 p.m. Eastern timezone Thursday night spot. The pilot was directed by Spike Lee.
On October 20, 2006, it was announced that CBS had renewed the show for a full 22-episode season. [1]
Cast members
The table below summarizes the main cast of Shark.
| Character | Actor/Actress |
|---|---|
| Deputy District Attorney Sebastian Stark | James Woods |
| District Attorney Jessica Devlin | Jeri Ryan |
| Julie Stark | Danielle Panabaker |
| Deputy District Attorney Casey Woodland | Samuel Page |
| Deputy District Attorney Raina Troy | Sophina Brown |
| Deputy District Attorney Martin Allende | Alexis Cruz |
| Deputy District Attorney Madeline Poe | Sarah Carter |
| DA Investigator Isaac Wright | Henry Simmons |
Deputy District Attorney Martin Allende was killed off the show in the January 4, 2007 episode, The Wrath of Khan.
Episodes
Cutthroat Manifesto
Stark has three rules, which he refers to as his "Cutthroat Manifesto:"
- "Trial is War. Second place is death."
- "Truth is relative. Pick one that works."
- "In a jury trial, there are only twelve opinions that matter and yours [speaking to his team] is not one of them."
Foreign broadcasts of Shark
Shark airs in Canada on Global as a simsub as well as airing in the UK on Five and Five US with repeats on UKTV Gold and it has been airing in Iceland on Stöð 2 since January 8th. It will also air in Australia on the Seven Network in 2007 and in Norway on TV3 starting January 4. In the US, this show premiered on September 21, 2006, in The Netherlands Shark premiered on RTL4 on October 30, 2006.
Trivia
- Shark was in jeopardy of getting cancelled before it even started, but James Woods gave the legal drama new life once he signed on to star in the pilot. Both James Woods and Spike Lee have spent most of their careers focusing on feature films, not television.
- In episode four, during an exterior shot of a hotel right before a scene where Casey and Raina question a bartender, a bus with an ad for Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip passes in front of the camera. CBS had previously lost a bidding war to NBC for the rights to Studio 60 in October 2005.
- Shark is slightly inaccurate in implying that the Los Angeles County District Attorney is controlled by the City of Los Angeles. The District Attorney is actually an independently elected official of the county government. If anyone could pressure the D.A. to hire a former criminal defense attorney like Sebastian Stark, it would be the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, who control the county budget. The City of Los Angeles does have a City Attorney, but that official prosecutes only misdemeanors and files a variety of civil lawsuits against criminals, rather than the high-stakes felony prosecutions depicted in the show.
