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The format gets a full season to work with.
A full season order, a settled fifth seat, and a format confident enough to look backward.
A rhythm worth tracking.
Season four is Shark Tank's first fall premiere and its biggest order yet — 26 episodes, more than any season before it. Mark Cuban, Daymond John, Kevin O'Leary, and Robert Herjavec now appear in every episode, while Barbara Corcoran and Lori Greiner formalize an alternating arrangement for the fifth seat instead of trading it ad hoc. The season also introduces "where are they now" update segments. The finale's air date shifted late, pushed by breaking news coverage that spring.
The #04 slot.
Slot #04 of 6 in the Shark Tank Editor's Canon. Season four is where the network stops treating Shark Tank like a mid-season experiment and starts treating it like a real show. Moving to a fall premiere for the first time, and ordering 26 episodes — nearly double the season before it — signals confidence the format hadn't earned yet. Mark Cuban, Daymond John, Kevin O'Leary, and Robert Herjavec are locked in as full-time regulars, and Barbara Corcoran and Lori Greiner formalize their alternating arrangement for the fifth seat rather than trading it ad hoc. The season also starts folding in update segments on past entrepreneurs, a small addition that signals a format finally mature enough to look backward as well as forward.