Shark was in jeopardy of getting canceled before it even started, but James Woods gave the legal drama new life once he signed on to star in the pilot. Woods has spent most of his career focusing on feature films, not television. He said about the decision though he had nothing against TV as most people assumed, as he had done TV movies. There were simply no characters he was willing to commit to full time until the part of Sebastian Stark came along. The creator was looking for somebody like him to play the part anyway
Stark has three rules, which he refers to as his "Cutthroat Manifesto:" * "Trial is War. Second place is death." * "Truth is relative. Pick one that works." * "In a jury trial, there are only twelve opinions that matter and yours [speaking to his team] is not one of them."
When actor Sam Page decided not to come back to the series as Casey Woodland, the departure of his character was explained by saying that Casey was helping his father, who is a US Senator, work on his election campaign though it's not explained what his father is running for.
The absence of Jeri Ryan's character, Jessica Devlin, from the Season 2 episodes that were shot and aired after the 2007-2008 Writer's Strike is explained by saying that she is in Chicago caring for her ailing father.
In the pilot, Claire Stark was portrayed by Lindsay Frost - when the character returned for a more permanent role in season 2, she was replaced by actress Orla Brady. In the process her character went from being American to an Irish-born U.S. citizen
An opening theme song and main title sequence were developed for for Season One. CBS instead decided to save that time to air commercials and listed the main cast members while the episode played. The theme song, entitled "Open Water" by the band Suicide Celebrity, was aired during overseas broadcasts of the program, but wasn't heard in America until the 2010 reruns aired on the ION network. The Season Two theme was an instrumental version of the song.
In the episodes "Fall From Grace" and "Strange Bedfellows", Jessica's opponent in the D.A. race is referred to as Brian Cutler. When the character first appears on screen in the Season 2 premiere "Gangster Movies", as played by Kevin Pollak, he is named Leo Cutler.
Shark was in jeopardy of getting canceled before it even started, but James Woods gave the legal drama new life once he signed on to star in the pilot.
When James Woods appeared as a guest in the hit US show Entourage, he says the words "5 seconds" and uses a hand gesture when referring to getting his tickets back from Turtle...Woods says this same sentence and uses the same hand gesture on 2 occasions in his new show, Shark.
During an exterior shot of a hotel right before a scene where Casey and Raina question a bartender, a bus with an ad for Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip passes in front of the camera. CBS had previously lost a bidding war to NBC for the rights to Studio 60 in October 2005.
There's a scene where Stark (James Woods) and D.A. Devlin (Jeri Ryan) have a meeting in a stairwell about the repercussions, Stark says "...Dean Gorman's death becomes another unsolved L.A. murder, James Ellroy writes another book and we move on." James Woods starred in Cop, which is based upon James Ellroy's novel "Blood on the Moon".
Riddick's businesses are named after classic Hollywood "tough guys": (Clint) Eastwood, (Robert) Mitchum and (Steve) McQueen.
{Wayne's World 3: Killer Shark (#2.16)}
On May 14th, 2008, before this episode aired, CBS announced that "Shark" would not return for a third season. Thus this acted as the series finale, and was advertised as so.
Despite this being the final episode, Jeri Ryan did not appear. The Writer's Strike had shortened the number of episodes from 22 to 16 and her maternity leave was not yet over when it was being filmed.
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