Yeah I think they’ll refresh the Sharks, Janine is now tied to the new 9 series with Gordon Ramsay for a similar premise with food so would be too similar concept even if she wasn’t on a network contract.
Could see Sarah possibly returning though as host / narrator.
Interesting also that Curio Pictures (formerly Playmaker Media) is taking over production of the series from Endemol Shine here, given the company has all but been a Drama producer.
News Corp reports Canadian businessman Robert Herjavec, who has appeared on 14 seasons of Shark Tank US, will join the new panel of the revived Australian version. He is married to Kym Johnson (formerly of Dancing with the Stars).
The rest of the panel consists of: Sabri Suby (founder and Head of Growth of digital marketing agency King Kong), Dr Catriona Wallace (AI expert), Davie Fogarty (founder of The Oodie), and Jane Lu (CEO of Showpo).
I think Curio is now making the show as a representative of its parent company Sony Pictures which currently distributes the format. It follows the trend of Australian version of shows being made by subsidiaries of original rights holders or distributors (e.g. Mastermind by BBC Studios Australia, The Bachelor franchise and Who Do You Think You Are? by Warner Bros International Television Production).
Interesting if that lineup is true - personally I don’t really know much about any of them (compared to the previous lineup where I did).
Let’s Get Down To Business: Meet The Five New Sharks.
All New Shark Tank Australia. Coming To 10 And 10 Play.
Australia, let’s get down to business.
It’s time to meet the five new Sharks, set to help budding Aussie entrepreneurs boost their businesses, when all new Shark Tank Australia returns to 10 and 10 Play later this year.
Putting their own hard-earned cash on the line to turn the next big Aussie idea into a profitable venture are: Sabri Suby, the confident and relevant founder of King Kong Digital Marketing Agency and author of Sell Like Crazy; Dr. Catriona Wallace, expert in the field of artificial intelligence and founder of the Responsible Metaverse Alliance; Davie Fogarty, an E-commerce whizkid and founder of Davie Group, running 10 consumer brands including The Oodie; and Jane Lu, the energetic and fiercely independent CEO of online fashion boutique, Showpo.
Rounding out the feeding frenzy, is the incredibly popular and generous OG Shark Tank US Shark, Robert Herjavec, who has invested over $23 million AU across his 14 seasons of the show.
Daniel Monaghan, SVP Content and Programming, Paramount Australia and New Zealand, said: “We’re so excited to bring the world’s number one business show back to Aussie screens. Our five new Sharks come from diverse sectors of business, and their backgrounds and journeys to success are nothing short of inspirational. We can’t wait for them to share their knowledge and provide invaluable take aways to the entrepreneurs who enter the Tank.”
Our five business superstars are looking for the best products and businesses Australia has to offer. So, if you’re a budding entrepreneur with a great business idea and want to take a chance to change your life, click here to enter the Tank. You have no -fin to lose.
Shark Tank Australia is based on the Dragons’ Den format owned by Japan’s Nippon TV and distributed by Sony Pictures Television. It will be produced for Network 10 by SPT’s Curio Pictures.
So, will all five appear together or will they take turns in different episodes?
The format has always had the five sharks on every episode, so I wouldn’t expect that to change.
Is Sarah Harris hosting again?
Didn’t know any of the originals before it started either so this looks good. Jane is a good get as she shows alot of personality in her company’s socials.
I’m sure they have all been selected for a reason and have screentested well so I am looong forward to this
From Sony - interesting BTS info
Unique look and workflow by exclusively shooting the series with 16 full frame Sony PXW-FX9, ILME-FX6V and ILME-FR7 cameras
In the upcoming Network 10 and Paramount+ series Shark Tank Australia, the smart entertainment television show - made by production company Curio Pictures - that highlights everyday Australians and their exceptional ideas, DoP Tim Hawkins has created a unique look and workflow by exclusively shooting the series with 16 full frame Sony PXW-FX9, ILME-FX6V and ILME-FR7 cameras - all using Sony lenses.
Hawkins explained, “Shooting Shark Tank Australia has been an amazing experience and it’s been one of the trickiest shoots of my 30-year career. We had a bunch of full frame challenges in preproduction and whilst it’s not been easy, I’ve proved it can be done. I have received huge support from our EP - Jemma Carlton, Line Producer- Jo Cadman and Director - Peter Lawler, as they also wanted to have a full frame look for the series and by using the Sony FX9, FX6 and FR7 cameras the end results are spectacular.”
Shark Tank Australia is Hawkins’ first large format series after shifting his focus to documentary films four years ago.
He added, “I have been a long-term user of Sony cameras and products. In fact, this year for me celebrates 30 years of continuous Sony camera use. I’ve owned a few other cameras over the years but there’s always been a professional Sony camera in my bag. In truth, shooting Shark Tank Australia is actually two FF stories that include the Sony FR7 PTZ camera, how it filled a gap and solved a huge problem for me as a DoP when shooting a large format studio show on full frame (FF) sensors.”
Hawkins is a big believer in Sony FF cameras. He was an early adopter of the FX series cameras and loves the versatility and tech in them. He continued, “As a DOP, my problem has been that until now there wasn’t a Pan Tilt Zoom (PTZ) camera that used a FF sensor. Often the only practical option on a TV series is to use PTZ cameras. It’s not ideal but practically using PTZ cameras is often a good solution to capturing content in tricky locations. My problem has always been matching the PTZ cameras with my large sensor FF cine cameras. Often the better solution when having PTZ cameras on set is to lower the quality of the main ENG cameras to more closely match the PTZ cameras, so the viewer isn’t visually jolted when cutting between them. The announcement of the Sony FR7 gave me hope we could have a large multi-camera TV series shot entirely on FF cameras and it proved to be 100% the case on Shark Tank Australia.”
Once green lit, Hawkins and his crew took some brand new FR7 cameras and began unboxing, stickering and integrating them with his FX9 and FX6s on the Shark Tank Australia set at Disney Studios in Sydney adding, “Ideally, I wouldn’t have had three different cameras on set as a single camera model makes life simple. For me, the FX9 and FX6 are different cameras. I own them both and love them equally. I interchange them on set all the time and was very confident if I played my cards right I could have them look the same. Further to that, I believed that having both FX9s and FX6’s together would help and be an asset to the series.”
Hawkins ended up using a full Sony G Master solution for lenses explaining, Preproduction was hectic, there was a flurry of lens changes with us all trying to make the most of those FF sensors as well as giving the coverage asked for.” Shark Tank Australia is shot on a massive studio set and the series’ director, Pete Lawler, wanted close ups from some of the floor cameras while a Techno Jib and Steady Cam was shooting wides on the fly. Hawkins said, “This required our floor cameras to be way at the back of the studio. I tried a bunch of long zoom lenses but wasn’t keen with the look of those at the long end. Some were slow and others didn’t look cinematic enough whilst others physically couldn’t be manually zoomed on-air and were ruled out. So, for the hard cameras, I landed back at our trusty Sony 70-200mm GM2s with 1.4 times teleconverter behind the lens. I placed the FX6s in the positions that required the tightest shots and got them to use clear image zoom when required. I reckon using that combo gave us close to +400mm on the FX6s and +300mm on the FX9s in S35.”
Three of the FR7s used the Sony 28-135mm lens, one FR7 had a Sony FE 16-35mm T3.1 G and another ran a 14mm prime. All had clear image zoom engaged and gave Hawkins a great cinematic look while still being able to remotely pan, tilt and zoom the lenses.
The Techno Jib had a 17-120mm CNE lens and the Steady Cam used a combination of Fujinon Cabrio 19-90mm, Sigma 50mm and Sony 85mm and 50mm lenses.
Hawkins also had eight FX9 and FX6 hard cameras on tripods, placed an FX6 on the Steady Cam and an FX9 on the Techno Jib. The FR7 PTZ cameras were then integrated into the set to obtain shots in areas the hard cameras couldn’t get to.The full frame element of the Sony cameras was critical but not without its challenges on Shark Tank Australia as Hawkins explained, “Being able to bring a beautiful cinematic look to a series is most modern DoPs’ goal and it’s certainly mine. To be honest, it can be problematic having FF cameras on large multi-camera shoot. On Shark Tank Australia we ended up with 16 FF cameras. That gave us beautiful looking images and made preproduction far more interesting than usual. Having FF cameras on a studio show like Shark Tank Australia is a game changer look-wise so, yeah, it was very important but challenging. Luckily both the EP and director were very supportive and backed me.”
Shark Tank Australia is essentially a static show. The “Sharks” are seated while the entrepreneur pitches often in a static standing position. The floor hard cameras capture the main content with a Techno Jib, Steady Cam and 6m cine slider bringing movement to the coverage. To add in additional movement Hawkins made sure the back of stage shots - before and after the pitch - were shot handheld.
Other challenges presented themselves around the fact that all three cameras have different base ISOs and all three of them have different noise ratios in their base ISOs. Hawkins added, “I solved one of our biggest workflow issues by adopting S-Cinetone to the base look of all cameras. Shark Tank Australia is a completely controlled studio show and shooting in S-Cinetone gave me back full control of the cameras. I love the look of S-Cinetone and use it often. Usually S-Log 3 is my go-to look for the Sony cameras, but in this situation S-Cinetone allowed me to solve some of our pre-production challenges in-camera. S-Cinetone gave me power to decide in-studio not only the look of the show but base-ISO, noise levels and ISO levels. We were also able to fine tune the colour of the cameras and match the colour balance and exposure perfectly. An impossible task if we’d chosen a Log solution. Everyone knew S-Cinetone was placing control back in my hands and again, I could not have felt more trusted and supported in that decision by our EP and director.”
One of Hawkins’ non-negotiable criteria for Shark Tank Australia was shooting with his lenses wide open. All cameras had to be wide open at all times. Ultimately, in order to achieve this, he used a large range of solutions that involved internal and external ND filters, ISO changes and lighting solutions. Hawkins said, “We lit the studio somewhere close to F2.8 and I had a bunch of F4 lenses on some cameras, some F2.8 lenses and one variable aperture zoom lens. It was fairly low light, so I needed to push the sensitivity of the sensors without introducing too much noise. I knew the FX6 had noise in its high base ISO while the FX9 is clean as a whistle in high base ISO. I had no idea on the Sony FR7 noise levels as they were brand new into the country and I had no reference points, as I didn’t know anyone else who had used the FR7s in this way in Australia.”
He continued, “Initially it was a real juggle and at times we had many balls in the air but ultimately, thinking broadly and trusting the Sony cameras gave us the look we were after without compromising. No camera is perfect, but you have to hand it to the Sony FX series cameras for their versatility. When understood correctly, they are very powerful cameras and the FR7 is a great inclusion to their family. The FX series cameras enable me to deliver different looking content with the same camera for various clients on any given day.”
When reflecting on the size, scale and sheer sense of achievement within the production of Shark Tank Australia Tim Hawkins concluded, “As I said at the beginning, shooting Shark Tank Australia has been an amazing and challenging experience. That said we have much to thank the Sony FX6, FR7 and FX9 cameras for, as they helped us achieve such a great result. I love of the tech in the Sony FX series cameras and I’m always talking about it. Whether it’s the auto focus, variable ND, hi/low base ISO, sensor crop functions, frame rates, codecs or the low light capabilities the tech has changed my life and I’m a better DOP for it. Finally, being able to integrate Sony full frame PTZ cameras into a full frame studio show is still very new. One thing is for certain, having those FR7s gave us a great edge and an amazing look."
Picture credits
All image courtesy of Tim Keith at @tckvision
Tim Hawkins and his crew shooting Shark Tank Australia with Sony FX6, FR7 and FX9 cameras
Follow Tim Hawkins on Instagram @timothyhawkins
First promo for the new season aired tonight during Hunted finale.
The set this time around doesn’t nearly look as big or elaborate as the previous version.
Keen to see this on-air again soon, though knowing our networks it’ll inevitably go up against Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars on 9.
All New Shark Tank Australia. Coming Soon To 10 And 10 Play.
Coming soon to 10 and 10 Play, get ready to dive into all-new thrilling business battles, when a new breed of Shark Tank Australia hits our screens.
Armed with persuasive tactics, business acumen and unwavering passion, aspiring Aussie entrepreneurs step into the iconic Shark Tank to pitch their innovative ideas. Laying everything on the line, they’re hoping to strike a deal with one of our five new powerhouse Sharks, that can catapult their dreams into reality.
With unique backgrounds, expertise and impressive net worth, our new Sharks who have taken over the Tank include: Sabri Suby, the confident founder of King Kong Digital Marketing Agency and author of Sell Like Crazy; Dr. Catriona Wallace, an expert in the field of Artificial Intelligence the Metaverse; Davie Fogarty, founder of Davie Group and 10 consumer brands including the bestselling The Oodie; Jane Lu, the energetic and fiercely independent CEO of online fashion boutique Showpo; and the wildly popular and generous OG Shark from Shark Tank US, Robert Herjavec, who has invested over $23 million AUD across 14 seasons of the show.
Who will deliver the perfect pitch and propel their business to new heights with a big cash investment from our Sharks? One thing’s for sure, lives are about to be transformed.
I think 10 is making a big mistake if it plans to show the reboot on multiple nights after The Traitors finishes its new season.
This would be the perfect Thursday 7.30pm or Sunday 8.40pm show. Once per week for 10.
100% agree. This show is more suited to a once a week format, rather than airing it on multiple nights. Hope 10 dont overdo this.
The show returns Tuesday night, August 29, according to watermark shown during The Traitors tonight.
All New Shark Tank Australia. Premieres Tuesday, 29 August At 7.30pm On 10 And 10 Play.
Commencing Tuesday, 29 August at 7.30pm on 10 and 10 Play, all-new Shark Tank Australia will see five new self-made, multi-millionaire and billionaire tycoons, search for the next great Aussie invention to invest their own hard-earned cash into.
So what are our financially-blessed friends looking for?
Straight-shooting, marketing royalty Sabri Suby, is expecting his ‘money soldiers’ to come back with more.
Dr. Catriona Wallace may be susceptible to having her heartstrings pulled, but this A.I guru still has bite when it comes to a sharky offer.
With millions on the line, the creator of the world-famous The Oodie, Davie Fogarty, is looking for clever inventions.
CEO of fashion phenomenon Showpo, Jane Lu, isn’t just backing a great idea, she’s also backing a great personality.
With many a Tank under his diving belt, and a direct line to the rich and famous, Robert Herjavec is our OG Shark.
Which Aussie budding entrepreneurs will be given the chance to secure business deals that could make them millionaires? Find out soon, when all-new Shark Tank Australia premieres Tuesday, 29 August at 7.30pm on 10 and 10 Play.
