>On average, a season of a show that makes it into the Top 10 spends 4.3 weeks that and has 30.1 million hours watched per week. > >A show that makes it into the Top 5 spends 2.6 weeks there and has 46.4 million hours watched.

Where did you get these figures from out of interest?

I would recommend a rewatch. It gets better every time.

Start breaking bricks wet nips

Read it again. The white guys named Mike aren't scientists.

Discovery hired more white non-scientists specifically named Mike than they hired female and ethnic actual shark scientists despite their abundance.

Maybe read the article before commenting.

>Nor does Shark Week accurately represent experts in this field. One issue is ethnicity: Three of the five most-featured locations on Shark Week are Mexico, South Africa and the Bahamas, but we could count on one hand the number of non-white scientists who we saw featured in shows about their own countries. It was far more common for Discovery to fly a white male halfway around the world than to feature a local scientist.

>Moreover, while more than half of U.S. shark scientists are female, you wouldn’t know this from watching Shark Week. Among people who we saw featured in more than one episode, there were more white male non-scientists named Mike than women of any profession or name.