Animal Planet TV Guide — Friday TV Listings & Schedule

Browse the full Animal Planet TV guide for Friday, 7 August 2026. 24 programmes listed , including 6 tonight. US listings updated daily — scroll down to tonight's highlights or use the day tabs above to browse the weekly schedule.

Early Morning

00:00 1h

Great White Sex Battle

Nature Special

Female and male great white sharks compete in a series of challenges in an effort to determine the inferior sex.

01:00 1h

Alien Sharks: Untamed America

Documentary Special

Forrest Galante embarks on a nationwide quest to find the nation's most bizarre and dangerous alien sharks.

02:00 1h

Invasion of the Mega Sharks

Documentary Special

A shark team attempts to find the elusive Big Rose: a female great white believed to be one of largest predators in the North Atlantic.

03:00 1h

House of Sharks

Documentary Special

In New Zealand's waters, great white houses battle for dominance. Experts risk it all to reveal the bloodlines that determine their allegiances.

04:00 1h

Great White Sex Battle

Nature Special

Female and male great white sharks compete in a series of challenges in an effort to determine the inferior sex.

05:00 1h

Shark Week: Alien Sharks: Close Encounters

Documentary Special

Three different expedition teams dive deep below the ocean's surface to find sharks that glow in the dark because they want a close encounter with alien sharks.

Morning

06:00 1h

6000-LB Shark

Nature Special

Marine biologists Tom Hird and Leigh de Necker make a trip to New Zealand to obtain a stool sample from the fattest Great White Shark to study their diet.

07:00 1h

America's Cutest

S1 · E4 · Dogs: Cutified True

Dogs: Cutified

All the furry cuteness of the canine kingdom is examined and presented as the lovable mutts fall in love with unique friends and show off their cuteness.

08:00 1h

America's Cutest

S1 · E5 · Dogs: Snug-A-Licious True

Dogs: Snug-A-Licious

Footage presented portraying dogs being nanny to human babies and displaying mothering instincts as well as sports prowess and non-stop barking abilities.

09:00 1h

The Aquarium

S1 · E1 · Slimy is the New Fuzzy Nature

Slimy is the New Fuzzy

In South Africa, a team tries to help rehabilitate penguins before releasing them into the wild; a dive team installs a shipwreck feature for their sea turtles.

10:00 1h

The Aquarium

S1 · E2 · Seal the Deal Nature

Seal the Deal

Health issues arise after two African penguins give birth to a new chick; a seal is nervous as his fellow harbor seals are trained to ride an elevator.

11:00 1h

The Aquarium

S1 · E4 · Otter Tale Nature

Otter Tale

The team is curious to figure out why an Asian otter has a bloody nose; a couple of infant American alligators must learn how to eat in an orderly manner.

Daytime

12:00 1h

Tanked

S5 · E6 · Sherri Shepherd on the Rocks True

Sherri Shepherd on the Rocks

Actress and TV host Sherri Sheppard wants a simple but elegant tank for her home, so she contacts Wayde and Brett and asks them to build it for her.

13:00 1h

Tanked

S5 · E7 · Penn & Teller Monkey Magic True

Penn & Teller Monkey Magic

To celebrate their 40th anniversary, magicians Penn and Teller ask Wayde and Brett to build a tank for their backstage "Monkey Room," but a problem occurs.

14:00 1h

Tanked

S5 · E3 · Gabriel Iglesias' Fluffy Tank True

Gabriel Iglesias' Fluffy Tank

Brett and Wayde and the ATM crew must build a tank for comic Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias inspired by his love of vintage buses, but a theft hinders progress.

15:00 1h

Tanked

S5 · E5 · Jeff Dunham's Tank for Dummies True

Jeff Dunham's Tank for Dummies

Brett and Wayde build a theater-themed aquarium for ventriloquist Jeff Dunham that features his dummies as the stars, and that has a working chandelier.

16:00 1h

Dawn of the Monster Mako

Nature Special

Underwater cinematographer Joe Ramiro and his wife, marine biologist Lauren travel to Portugal's Azores region to track down a 14-foot mako shark.

17:00 1h

Great White Serial Killer: Sea of Blood

Nature Special

Shark attack survivor Paul De Gelder teams up with two specialists to investigate two vicious Great White Shark attacks that occurred near Mexico.

Evening

18:00 1h

Great White Assassins

Nature Special

Marine biologist Alison Towner and marine life photographer Dickie Chivell team up in New Zealand to investigate how killer whales hunt great white sharks.

19:00 1h

How to Survive a Shark Attack

Documentary Special

Bull shark attack survivor Paul De Gelder puts his life on the line to capture on camera the ferociousness of a real shark attack to demonstrate how to survive.

20:00 1h

In the Eye of the Storm

S2 · E1 · Shark Storm True

Shark Storm

Along the Gulf Coast in the summer of 2024, cameras captured an unprecedented outbreak of shark attacks that took beachgoers off guard.

21:00 1h

What Shark Attacked?

Information Special

Shark attacks are extremely rare, but when they happen, the first question is always the same: what kind of shark was it?

22:00 1h

Chum Island: Catching a Killer

Documentary Special

Dr. Riley Elliott comes eye-to-eye with massive great whites while on a mission to tag the culprit of a shark attack spree that wrecked an Australian community.

23:00 1h

Secrets of the Great White Kill

Documentary Special

For centuries, great whites were believed to simply stalk their prey.

Early Morning

Morning

Daytime

Evening

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