Zombie Shark is a docufiction program by Discovery Channel for the 2014 Shark Week. The premise of the program is that sharks can be brought into a state of tonic immobility (a kind of trance) by flipping them on their back, and that this characteristic might explain how a supposed series of Great white shark killings occurred: the suggestion is that Orcas have developed that skill and are thus able to kill large numbers of sharks.[1] Zombie Shark, indeed much of Discovery's 2014 programming, was panned by critics,[2] with the Houston Press claiming that Discovery had jumped the shark.[3]