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Peter Bart: Deals Keep Swirling, But Are There Signs ‘Shark Tank’ Is Losing Its Bite?

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It was a gutsy pitch – OK, call it brazen. The proposed show would have the same blah cast week-to-week, non-stars with star egos.

The storylines would be repetitious, the dialogue argumentative. The winning “entrepreneurs” would be thrilled, but then daunted as they realized how drastically their “asks” would be reduced through confiscatory capitalism.So here’s the bottom line: The pitch worked; so did the cast.

And when the czars of television celebrate one another in two weeks, almost everyone will cite Shark Tank, entering its 13th year, as a perverse stroke of genius — one that may keep collecting Emmys.While the formula still clicks week to week, the ratings still buoyant, insiders now detect seeds of self-destruction.

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