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The panel the show would keep for years.
Six sharks, five seats a night — the rotation the show would keep running for years.
A rhythm worth tracking.
Season five widens the panel from two rotating fifth-seat guests into a full six-person bench: Barbara Corcoran, Mark Cuban, Daymond John, Kevin O'Leary, Lori Greiner, and Robert Herjavec are all now credited main sharks, five of them appearing per episode on rotation. It is the lineup fans still call the classic six. Guest sharks John Paul DeJoria and Steve Tisch drop in for select episodes across a 29-episode season, the show's longest run yet.
The #02 slot.
Slot #02 of 6 in the Shark Tank Editor's Canon. Season five is where Shark Tank stops tinkering with its panel and settles on the version that would define it for years. Barbara Corcoran, Mark Cuban, Daymond John, Kevin O'Leary, Lori Greiner, and Robert Herjavec are all credited as main sharks now, with five of the six appearing on any given night — the six-person bench fans still call the classic six. After four seasons of guest slots and ad hoc fill-ins, the show finally commits to a full roster instead of rotating through candidates. Twenty-nine episodes, the longest run yet, give the new lineup room to prove the format works at this scale. Nothing about the panel would need major fixing again for a long stretch.