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The panel starts to shift.
The founding panel starts to shift — a fifth seat that rotates instead of staying put.
A rhythm worth tracking.
Season two runs nine episodes and marks the first real shake-up to Shark Tank's original panel: Kevin Harrington appears in fewer than half the episodes, while Mark Cuban makes his first guest appearances, a preview of a bigger shift to come. The show also starts rotating its fifth seat rather than keeping one fixed panelist, an experiment it would keep refining for years. The tank stays in Culver City, steadier than season one's rougher debut.
The #06 slot.
Slot #06 of 6 in the Shark Tank Editor's Canon. Season two sits at the bottom of the canon not because anything here fails, but because it's the show's most visibly unsettled stretch. Kevin Harrington, a fixture in season one, appears in fewer than half of the nine episodes, and the show fills his seat with a rotating cast of guests rather than a single replacement — including Mark Cuban's first-ever appearances on the show, three episodes that read in hindsight as an audition nobody announced as one. Comedian Jeff Foxworthy guests twice more. The result is a season that plays like a format mid-adjustment, still confident in its pitches and its panel's chemistry, but visibly less settled than what the show would become just one season later.