Card Sharks (2019)

Card Sharks
Premiere	June 12, 2019
Host	Joel McHale
Network/Provider	ABC
Style	60-minute game show
Company	Entertain The Brutes, Fremantle North America
Seasons	2
Episodes	21 (through season 2)
Status	Currently in limbo, has not yet been renewed or cancelled.
Origin	USA

Card Sharks, a remake of the classic '70s game show, is a game where one turn of a playing card can make you a winner or a loser! The road to glory and riches begins with two players who face off in a head-to-head elimination game with the goal of one player making it to the grand prize winning deck. The anticipation builds as each contestant has to decide if the odds are worth the risk of losing it all and making it to the big game. Ultimately, players can either take their earned cash and quit or continue betting with the hope of reaching the top for a chance to take home a life-changing cash prize.

As before, two contestants answer survey questions with the correct contestant playing a line of playing cards, predicting whether the next card in line is higher or lower in face value. In this edition, each contestant has ten cards to run and up to five survey questions are played.

The winner is staked to $10,000 in the Money Cards, with oversized poker chips representing the stake. The contestant must run seven cards (with the option to quit at any time and leave with what they've won), making wagers on each for the chance to win up to $500,000. Unlike previous editions of the show, the line of cards run consecutively from left to right. The contestant may make one change of a card during play.

The theme music is a reorchestration of the 1978 theme, which was previously the theme for Goodson-Todman's Double Dare in 1976.

Crew

Member	Role
Donna Jay Fulks	Announcer

Seasons

Season	Premiere	Finale				#
ABC
Season One	June 12, 2019	August 14, 2019				8
Season Two	October 18, 2020	July 7, 2021				13

In-Depth

• At a Glance: Additional information about the series

DVD Releases

There are no DVD releases for this show.