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ShowsShark TankSeason 13
Premiered October 2021 · ABC

Season 13

Season thirteen returns Shark Tank to Culver City and to normal, closing the door on the prior year's distanced set. The classic six and the rotating guest chair pick up exactly where they left off — no roster changes, no format wrinkles, just the tank back to itself.

Filmed
Culver City, California
Culver City · back on the show's home set
Premiered
Oct 8, 2021
ABC · October 2021
Episodes
24
24-episode run, business as usual
Format
A return to pre-pandemic normalcy after last year's bubble
Same panel, same set, no wrinkles to speak of
Cast size
6 cast members
The classic six, unchanged, back in their usual seats
On this page6 sections
  1. 01The take
  2. 02The shape of the season
  3. 03Where it sits in the canon
  4. 04What to watch for
  5. 05Adjacent in the canon
  6. 06In this canon
01The take

Season 13.

The bubble season ends; the format picks up right where it left off.
02The shape of the season

A rhythm worth tracking.

Season thirteen brings Shark Tank back to Culver City and back to normal, closing the door on the prior year's distanced set. The classic six and the rotating guest chair return to business as usual, with no roster or format changes to speak of. Twenty-four episodes settle into the show's most familiar rhythm yet, proof the bubble season was a detour and not a new direction.

03Where it sits in the canon

The #12 slot.

Slot #12 of 17 in the Shark Tank Editor's Canon. Season thirteen's whole job is to prove season twelve's Las Vegas bubble was a detour and not a new direction, and it does that job well. Production returns to Culver City, the classic six and the rotating guest chair pick up exactly where they left off, and there's no roster or format news to speak of. That's a modest kind of achievement compared to the seasons that introduce something the show keeps — this is stability for its own sake, a season whose real accomplishment is simply looking normal again. It's competent, comfortable, and forgettable in the way steady middle seasons in this canon tend to be.

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04What to watch for

3 moments, no spoilers.

  • Premiere · back to Culver City

    Watch for the familiar set again after a year away — no more distancing, no more improvised greetings, just the tank looking like itself.

  • Full run · nothing new to report

    There's no roster shakeup or format tweak to track this year — watch instead for how comfortably the panel settles back into its old rhythm.

  • Guest chair · steady as ever

    The rotating guest seat keeps humming along exactly as it has for several seasons now — watch for how unremarkable that consistency has become.

06In this canon

Its Editor's Canon entry.

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