Shark Week on the Discovery Channel officially kicks off on Sunday, June 26, 2016.

Over the next eight days, the worlds of sharks will be uncovered in most every way imaginable through 17 of the most intense, shark-centric episodes ever to flood the airwaves.

Famed Director Eli Hoth Part of Cast

"Hostel" director Eli Roth is back for a "Shark After Dark" return engagement and "Game of Thrones" star Lena Headey serves as the voice to an "Air Jaws" special.

The grandson of the legendary Jacque Cousteau, Philippe, and his wife, Ashlan, are on tap to star in the exotic "Nuclear Sharks."

You can see the entire schedule of shows here.

In Sunday's opening episode entitled "Tiger Beach (8 p.m. ET)," shark biologist Dr. Neil Hammerschlag tracks 40 sharks known as "garbage eaters" because of their habit of devouring anything and everything that crosses their path.

"Tiger Beach is a shallow water area in the Bahamas famed for its high number of huge tiger sharks," says Hammerschlag. "The show documents our research team as we use a set of amazing new technologies to investigate why there are so many large tiger sharks at Tiger Beach."

Later in the week (Tuesday, June 28, 9 p.m. ET) in an episode of "Wrath of a Great White Serial Killer," shark experts Ralph Collier and Brandon McMillan dive into the mystery of why great white sharks are now starting to populate the waters of the Pacific Northwest coast.

"A friend of mine was brutally bitten by a white shark off Oregon and I want to know why," said McMillian. "Why would a massive great white shark travel thousands of miles from across the Pacific into the icy-cold waters off Oregon? Why would they migrate to an area where great whites aren't supposed to go?"

On Thursday, June 29, the Cousteaus spring into action in an episode of "Nuclear Sharks" (9 p.m. ET), where they journey to Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands with marine biologist Luke Tipple to study a stretch of sea that was decimated by Cold War-fueled nuclear weapons tests.

The restored ecosystem now serves as home to plenty of reef sharks, which are supposedly non-migratory, begging the question researchers now seek to answer of where on Earth did they come from?

Finally, on Sunday, July 3, in an episode of "The Killing Games," Dr. Jonathan Werry and shark cinematographer Andy Casagrande set sail to South Australia to explore a new hunting strategy used by great white sharks.

The phenomenon finds these sharks swimming up to the coastline and grabbing them on the shore.

"We explore new and remote areas where large white sharks are almost void of human contact," said Werry. "This provides a fantastic, genuine research opportunity and real insight into the 'wild' and untamed behaviors of white sharks."

Longtime Show Still Attracts Viewers

Shark Week is now entering its 29th season on Discovery, but this year the episodes have been moved up to their earliest date ever. Last year's episodes drew an average of nearly 3 million viewers.

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