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For those of you already familiar with the Discovery Channel’s programming, what I’m about to say will be no surprise for you.  Coming up on the order of soon is the newest iteration of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, a week of shows devoted almost exclusively to those misunderstood terrors of the deep blue, sharks.  For those of you not familiar with this, it’s an absolutely amazing block of shows–some are purely shark-oriented, and others are special episodes of current Discovery Channel shows like Mythbusters that deal with shark facts and other shark phenomenon.

Thus, I’m all sorts of happy to offer up for you, ahead of the newest iteration of Shark Week, Discovery Channel’s Shark Week: 20th Anniversary Collection.

Shark Week: 20th Anniversary Collection is a monster four-disc compendium of episodes of Shark Week.  Containing three to four episodes of various Discovery Channel programs per disc, each covering any of a number of shark-related issues, the whole set is contained inside a box with a holographic cover that basically looks a lot like a shark attack.  Seriously–the shark essentially “swims in” from the left side of the box art and grows larger as it moves toward the right side of the box.

I’ll be honest with you up front–if you have even the VAGUEST interest in sharks, this is just the box set for you.  Prehistoric sharks, shark attack survivors, the shark attack rescue squads…pretty much everything you could ever want to know, or ever imagined you could know about sharks is right here.

It also serves as an excellent introductory guide to the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week.  If you want to learn, before you go in, just what this week is like, lay your hands on a copy of this fantastic box set.  We’re talking about approximately ELEVEN HOURS of footage.  That’s right.  Nearly half a day of footage comes in this tiny little box set.  Can you imagine that?  Sit around for half a day watching footage about sharks!

But it’s not just sharks, though.  It’s also some absolutely incredible visuals.  Let me put it this way:  sharks don’t live in the Arctic.  You’re probably not going to see a lot of sharks in Maine, or bombing around Boston Harbor.  So what you’ll get is an offhand look at some really fantastic beaches from all around the world.  Australian, Floridian, Hawaiian…you’ll see it in grand style and often with incredible overhead views.  Even better, you’ll get to go underwater, swimming with those sharks and the assorted other fish that live around them.

It’s downright spectacular, shot in a grand documentary style that feels so real and authentic that it can’t be easily ignored.  It’s great TV, packaged for easy use on DVD, and whether you already enjoy Shark Week or have never seen it, you’re going to fall in love with this DVD package.

Discovery Channel’s Shark Week: 20th Anniversary Collection nets a seven out of ten from the Screenhead Ten Scale for being a magnificently in-depth package about something not everyone may be interested in, despite the fact that it tries its best to capture everyone’s attention.

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