{"id":15192,"date":"2025-07-14T08:50:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/worldscreen.com\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T10:55:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:55:41","slug":"plimsolls-karen-plumb-andrea-jackson-on-shark-celebrity-infested-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/plimsolls-karen-plumb-andrea-jackson-on-shark-celebrity-infested-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Plumb &amp; Andrea Jackson on\u00a0Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As National Geographic\u2019s SharkFest gets underway and Discovery\u2019s Shark Week is set to begin next week, ITV tapped into the shark hype with the new reality format <em>Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters<\/em>. 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