The Tank is turning 10.
“Shark Tank,” ABC’s durable reality series that invites budding entrepreneurs to pitch products to investor “sharks,” celebrates its 10th season – and 200th episode – with Sunday’s season premiere (10 EDT/PDT; moves to 9 on Oct. 14). To celebrate, USA TODAY exclusively ranks the show’s top-selling products, ranging from the Scrub Daddy sponge to on-the-go lobster.
The series has featured a thousand entrepreneurs and brokered deals totaling $125 million in investors’ cash. Along with Barbara Corcoran, Robert Herjavec, Kevin (“Mr. Wonderful”) O’Leary, Daymond John, Mark Cuban and Lori Greiner, this season will feature new guest sharks Charles Barkley and Jamie Siminoff, who pitched the DoorBot home-security system (now known as Ring) in Season 5 but turned down O’Leary’s royalty offer.
Siminoff returns as the show’s first entrepreneur-turned-shark in Sunday’s opener, after selling his business to Amazon for more than $1 billion. “Jamie is Shark Tank’s first unicorn,” executive producer Clay Newbill says. “He represents what the show aspires to be at its best.”
And the Oct. 21 episode features a tear-jerker segment, a trio of siblings fulfilling their late firefighter father’s dream of appearing in the Tank to pitch his kitchen product.
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