Need to Know (2010)

1h 0m Documentary News

Need to Know is an American public television news program produced by WNET, and broadcast weekly on all Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) affiliate-stations in the United States. It aired from May 2010 until June 2013. PBS stated that the show was intended to fill the public-affairs and "hard"/investigative news void left by both the one-hour Bill Moyers Journal, and the cancelled, half-hour NOW on PBS. Both departing shows had been long-running, highly rated, and critically acclaimed for their journalistic quality, and focus on issues that deeply impacted regular Americans' lives, yet went largely ignored by commercial TV news outlets. "NTK" branded itself the "TV and Web newsmagazine [that] gives you what you need to know." PBS had described the show as “a multi-platform current affairs news magazine, uniting broadcast and web in an innovative approach to news-gathering and reporting."

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Episodes

Season 1Season 2010Season 2011Season 2012
  1. 1 1. Help wanted: New Hampshire
  2. 2 2. Sexual politics
  3. 3 3. Voting, power and South Carolina
  4. 4 4. Florida, seniors and entitlements
  5. 5 5. Foreclosures in Nevada, high-tech jobs
  6. 6 6. Student debt, college and religion
  7. 7 7. Food stamps, poverty in America
  8. 8 8. Main Street, Cairo
  9. 9 9. ‘Help Wanted’ in Ohio
  10. 10 10. Cleaning up the tax mess
  11. 11 11. Revisiting ‘The Corner,’ bridging the racial divide
  12. 12 12. Update on military veterans
  13. 13 13. Texas justice
  14. 14 14. Help Wanted: Philadelphia
  15. 15 15. Power to the people
  16. 16 16. Crossing the line, part 1
  17. 17 17. Sea-level rise, death on the border
  18. 18 18. The view from Main Street, leaving Afghanistan and Dan Savage on ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
  19. 19 19. Legal immigration, entrepreneurship
  20. 20 20. Financial inclusion
  21. 21 21. Green jobs, volunteerism
  22. 22 22. The future of health care
  23. 23 23. International justice
  24. 24 24. America’s immigration policies
  25. 25 25. Homecoming for veterans
  26. 26 26. Solving poverty in America
  27. 27 27. Braking the banks
  28. 28 28. Crossing the line, part 2
  29. 29 29. Living on the financial edge
  30. 30 30. Rahm’s grand plan
  31. 31 31. August 10, 2012
  32. 32 32. August 17, 2012
  33. 33 33. August 24, 2012
  34. 34 34. August 31, 2012
  35. 35 35. September 7, 2012

Cast

Alison Stewart
Jon Meacham

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