Need to Know
Need to Know
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Overview
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."
Top cast
4 seasons
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Season 1
2010 · 46 episodes
Season 1
2010 · 46 episodes
- 1 1. Pilot
- 2 2. Season 1, Episode 2
- 3 3. Season 1, Episode 3
- 4 4. Season 1, Episode 4
- 5 5. Season 1, Episode 5
- 6 6. Season 1, Episode 6
- 7 7. Season 1, Episode 7
- 8 8. Season 1, Episode 8
- 9 9. Season 1, Episode 9
- 11 11. Season 1, Episode 11
- 12 12. Season 1, Episode 12
- 13 13. Season 1, Episode 13
- 14 14. Season 1, Episode 14
- 15 15. Season 1, Episode 15
- 16 16. Season 1, Episode 16
- 17 17. Season 1, Episode 17
- 18 18. Season 1, Episode 18
- 19 19. Season 1, Episode 19
- 20 20. Season 1, Episode 20
- 21 21. Season 1, Episode 21
- 22 22. Season 1, Episode 22
- 23 23. Season 1, Episode 23
- 24 24. Season 1, Episode 24
- 25 25. Season 1, Episode 25
- 26 26. Season 1, Episode 26
- 27 27. Season 1, Episode 27
- 28 28. Season 1, Episode 28
- 30 30. Season 1, Episode 29
- 31 31. Season 1, Episode 31
- 32 32. Season 1, Episode 32
- 33 33. Season 1, Episode 33
- 34 34. Season 1, Episode 34
- 35 35. Season 1, Episode 35
- 36 36. Season 1, Episode 36
- 37 37. Season 1, Episode 37
- 38 38. Season 1, Episode 38
- 39 39. Season 1, Episode 39
- 40 40. Season 1, Episode 40
- 41 41. Season 1, Episode 41
- 42 42. Season 1, Episode 42
- 43 43. Season 1, Episode 43
- 44 44. Season 1, Episode 44
- 45 45. Season 1, Episode 45
- 46 46. Season 1, Episode 46
- 47 47. Season 1, Episode 47
- 48 48. Season 1, Episode 48
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Season 2010
2010 · 34 episodes
Season 2010
2010 · 34 episodes
- 1 1. Episode 1
- 2 2. Afghanistan, Rewriting History in Texas, Preventing Cancer
- 3 3. Mexico’s drug war, pot clinics
- 4 4. Money laundering and Sandra Day O’Connor
- 5 5. The Gulf Oil Spill and renewable energy.
- 6 6. Episode 6
- 7 7. Episode 7
- 8 8. Episode 8
- 9 9. Episode 9
- 10 10. Episode 10
- 11 11. Episode 11
- 12 12. Episode 12
- 13 13. Episode 13
- 14 14. Episode 14
- 15 15. Episode 15
- 16 16. Episode 16
- 17 17. Episode 17
- 18 18. Episode 18
- 19 19. Episode 19
- 20 20. Episode 20
- 21 21. Episode 21
- 22 22. Episode 22
- 23 23. A special report on the jobs crisis
- 24 24. Alaska native corporations, schools
- 25 25. Benefits in doubt, the latest foreclosure scandal
- 26 26. Election special edition
- 27 27. Episode 27
- 28 28. Episode 28
- 29 29. Episode 29
- 30 30. Episode 30
- 31 31. Episode 31
- 32 32. Episode 32
- 33 33. Episode 33
- 34 34. Episode 34
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Season 2011
2011 · 51 episodes
Season 2011
2011 · 51 episodes
- 1 1. Foster Care, A ‘Lost Boy’ of Sudan
- 2 2. Gun Control, Haiti, High-Speed Rail
- 3 3. Care for Disabled Adults, Michael Vick’s Dogs, China
- 4 4. Aging in the Car-Happy Suburbs, Congo, A New 'New Deal'?
- 5 5. Egypt, End-of-Life Care, Alzheimer’s
- 6 6. Ahead of the Class
- 7 7. The Universe(s), Egypt’s Future, and Fracking
- 8 8. Sea level rise, National Guard bonuses, Somali pirates
- 9 9. Libya’s uprising, the high cost of college sports, Wisconsin’s unions
- 10 10. Public unions and state budgets, blood transfusions
- 11 11. Crisis in Japan, stories of academic transformation
- 12 12. Wounded in war, Arne Duncan, breast cancer research
- 13 13. Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Medicare, Edwidge Danticat
- 14 14. The BP oil spill and the Grand Isle one year later, fixing American education
- 15 15. Chinese drywall, ‘Capitalism 4.0,’ right-sizing Detroit
- 16 16. Joe Nocera on the Charlie Engle story, Tavis Smiley, free music education in Chicago
- 17 17. Adoptions in Nepal, Bin Laden economics, the united states of women
- 18 18. Detainee abuse, broadband in Europe, crisis mappers
- 19 19. Climate change and tropical disease, Upper Big Branch mine disaster, Stuxnet
- 20 20. Political storm over tornadoes, Paralympics, shrinking Youngstown
- 21 21. Paying for war, medicating foster children, childhood obesity
- 22 22. Clinical trials overseas, legacy of nuclear waste, Brian Greene and the multiverse
- 23 23. New voter laws, the anti-abortion movement, therapy for Tourette’s syndrome
- 24 24. Combating IEDs, the ramifications of the Wal-Mart case, the science of happy marriages
- 25 25. Greece’s debt crisis, congressional redistricting, ‘Page One’ and the New York Times
- 26 26. Congo’s orchestra, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Sudan, workplace safety
- 27 27. California nuclear safety, population control, Gloria Steinem
- 28 28. Famine in Somalia, nuclear waste storage, Eric Cantor and the debt ceiling
- 29 29. Adult autism, food safety, wealth inequality
- 30 30. Breast cancer trials, Rick Perry’s ambitions, cyberweapons
- 31 31. The history of debt, detainee abuse, living with Chinese drywall
- 32 32. Urban farming in Detroit, consumer finance protection, gold mining in the Amazon
- 33 33. Texas textbooks, wild horses, hurricanes and climate change
- 34 34. Water contamination at Camp Lejeune, polls and markets, crisis-mapping
- 35 35. 9-11, Ten Years Later
- 36 36. Privatizing infrastructure, government and the private sector
- 37 37. Creating ‘green jobs,’ the American garage sale
- 38 38. Chemical pollution and the EPA
- 39 39. Help wanted
- 40 40. The politics of resentment
- 41 41. The nuclear question
- 42 42. Jobs in the balance
- 43 43. Creating opportunity
- 44 44. Coming home: The enduring sacrifice
- 45 45. The Pentagon: Hard times, hard choices
- 46 46. Resisting Alabama’s immigration crackdown
- 47 47. Help wanted: Revisiting Ohio
- 48 48. Making Congress work
- 49 49. Mayor under siege
- 50 50. Christian-Muslim relations in Iraq
- 51 51. Eye on Iowa
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Season 2012
· 35 episodes
Season 2012
· 35 episodes
- 1 1. Help wanted: New Hampshire
- 2 2. Sexual politics
- 3 3. Voting, power and South Carolina
- 4 4. Florida, seniors and entitlements
- 5 5. Foreclosures in Nevada, high-tech jobs
- 6 6. Student debt, college and religion
- 7 7. Food stamps, poverty in America
- 8 8. Main Street, Cairo
- 9 9. ‘Help Wanted’ in Ohio
- 10 10. Cleaning up the tax mess
- 11 11. Revisiting ‘The Corner,’ bridging the racial divide
- 12 12. Update on military veterans
- 13 13. Texas justice
- 14 14. Help Wanted: Philadelphia
- 15 15. Power to the people
- 16 16. Crossing the line, part 1
- 17 17. Sea-level rise, death on the border
- 18 18. The view from Main Street, leaving Afghanistan and Dan Savage on ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
- 19 19. Legal immigration, entrepreneurship
- 20 20. Financial inclusion
- 21 21. Green jobs, volunteerism
- 22 22. The future of health care
- 23 23. International justice
- 24 24. America’s immigration policies
- 25 25. Homecoming for veterans
- 26 26. Solving poverty in America
- 27 27. Braking the banks
- 28 28. Crossing the line, part 2
- 29 29. Living on the financial edge
- 30 30. Rahm’s grand plan
- 31 31. August 10, 2012
- 32 32. August 17, 2012
- 33 33. August 24, 2012
- 34 34. August 31, 2012
- 35 35. September 7, 2012
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