Dwayne Johnson goes deeper with “Shark Week.”
The thirty fourth version of Discovery’s famed summertime TV competition dedicated to the apex predator, airing July 24 to 30, may have its fierce nice white shark moments, hail hammerheads and unveil “monster” mako sharks.
However The Rock, 50, says he’ll shine a lightweight on his Polynesian heritage – and its cultural reverence for sharks – as the primary ever grasp of ceremonies for “Discovery: Shark Week.”
“I am half-Black and half-Samoan, so we’re utilizing this second to light up my tradition,” says Johnson. “I needed to tie within the significance we maintain for sharks. Let me present you what they imply to us.”
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Sharks are thought of “aumakua,” a private god that Hawaiian households consider derived from a deified ancestor that provides safety. Johnson will want a tank high to indicate off this respect, because it’s tattooed on his physique.
“Sharks are throughout my tattoos, and there are shark enamel defending the story of my tattoos,” says Johnson, who will interject colourful discussions to open and shut every night time of prime-time programming. “So this 12 months, there’s the cachet, the pomp and circumstance of ‘Shark Week.’ However we go deeper.”
Johnson traveled to his dwelling state of Hawaii to movie his segments in Oahu introducing 25 hours of recent “Shark Week” programming (Sunday, 8 p.m. EDT/PDT). “I needed to make it genuine,” he says.
The cultural second will steadiness out the extra outrageous superstar “Shark Week” segments. The OG of shark TV celebrations steps up the adrenaline-filled programming in a aggressive enviornment as predatory rivals have entered the massive fish competitors. Nat Geo’s “SharkFest” knockoff celebration started July 10 and runs for a whole month.
“Shark Week 2022” prime-time highlights on Discovery and Discovery+ (all instances EDT/PDT):
“Jackass” returns: Johnny Knoxville despatched the “Jackass” crew on a “Shark Week” final 12 months to assist Sean “Poopies” McInerney overcome his worry of sharks. They failed. So Knoxville is coming alongside to supervise operations with Wee Man, Chris Pontius and, naturally, Poopsies in “Jackass Shark Week 2.0” (Sunday, 9 p.m.).
“Impractical” shark schooling: “Impractical Jokers” stars Sal Vulcano, James Murray and Brian Quinn hit the waters of the Bahamas’ Blue Lagoon, rip off their Hawaiian shirts and get into the water in “Impractical Jokers Shark Week Spectacular” (Tuesday, 8). The excessive jinks kings goal to dispel the parable of man-eating sharks utilizing the solely instructional type they know: mortifying challenges and dares.
Tracy Morgan fandom: “30 Rock” star Tracy Morgan loves sharks a lot that he put his identify twice within the title for “Tracy Morgan Presents: Sharks! with Tracy Morgan” (July 28, 8). Morgan will get exclamatory teaming up with shark consultants to determine and admire the ocean’s craziest, most ferocious sharks.
Sharks (type of) strolling: These aren’t precisely landsharks. Nevertheless, wildlife conservationist and biologist Forrest Galante travels to Papua New Guinea to show that epaulette sharks (also called bamboo sharks) are evolving to stroll on land in “Island of the Strolling Sharks” (July 27, 8). Galante paperwork an epaulette shark utilizing its fins to stroll over moist and partially submerged rock. It is progress. “That is spectacular. How wonderful is that to see a shark go away the water and are available onto land,” Galante says.
“High Gun” returns: It would not be summer season 2022 with no “High Gun” spinoff. “Air Jaws: High Weapons” (Monday, 8) extends the annual quest to search out the best flying sharks. Filmmakers Dickie Chivell and Andy Casagrande use the newest high-tech cameras, hoping to seize the biggest breaching nice white ever seen.
The lineup has Johnson, who final went into the water as a lifeguard within the doomed 2017 comedy remake “Baywatch,” predicting that “Shark Week 2022” will dwell as much as previous years’ glory.
“‘Shark Week’ is beloved all over the world; it is the very best week of the 12 months,” he says. “And this 12 months, we nailed it. Individuals are going to get pleasure from it.”
