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Watching: Need to Know

0.02010-05-074 Seasons
Season 2011
Episode 3

Episodes

EP 1
Foster Care, A ‘Lost Boy’ of Sudan
EP 2
Gun Control, Haiti, High-Speed Rail
EP 3
Care for Disabled Adults, Michael Vick’s Dogs, China
EP 4
Aging in the Car-Happy Suburbs, Congo, A New 'New Deal'?
EP 5
Egypt, End-of-Life Care, Alzheimer’s
EP 6
Ahead of the Class
EP 7
The Universe(s), Egypt’s Future, and Fracking
EP 8
Sea level rise, National Guard bonuses, Somali pirates
EP 9
Libya’s uprising, the high cost of college sports, Wisconsin’s unions
EP 10
Public unions and state budgets, blood transfusions
EP 11
Crisis in Japan, stories of academic transformation
EP 12
Wounded in war, Arne Duncan, breast cancer research
EP 13
Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Medicare, Edwidge Danticat
EP 14
The BP oil spill and the Grand Isle one year later, fixing American education
EP 15
Chinese drywall, ‘Capitalism 4.0,’ right-sizing Detroit
EP 16
Joe Nocera on the Charlie Engle story, Tavis Smiley, free music education in Chicago
EP 17
Adoptions in Nepal, Bin Laden economics, the united states of women
EP 18
Detainee abuse, broadband in Europe, crisis mappers
EP 19
Climate change and tropical disease, Upper Big Branch mine disaster, Stuxnet
EP 20
Political storm over tornadoes, Paralympics, shrinking Youngstown
EP 21
Paying for war, medicating foster children, childhood obesity
EP 22
Clinical trials overseas, legacy of nuclear waste, Brian Greene and the multiverse
EP 23
New voter laws, the anti-abortion movement, therapy for Tourette’s syndrome
EP 24
Combating IEDs, the ramifications of the Wal-Mart case, the science of happy marriages
EP 25
Greece’s debt crisis, congressional redistricting, ‘Page One’ and the New York Times
EP 26
Congo’s orchestra, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Sudan, workplace safety
EP 27
California nuclear safety, population control, Gloria Steinem
EP 28
Famine in Somalia, nuclear waste storage, Eric Cantor and the debt ceiling
EP 29
Adult autism, food safety, wealth inequality
EP 30
Breast cancer trials, Rick Perry’s ambitions, cyberweapons
EP 31
The history of debt, detainee abuse, living with Chinese drywall
EP 32
Urban farming in Detroit, consumer finance protection, gold mining in the Amazon
EP 33
Texas textbooks, wild horses, hurricanes and climate change
EP 34
Water contamination at Camp Lejeune, polls and markets, crisis-mapping
EP 35
9-11, Ten Years Later
EP 36
Privatizing infrastructure, government and the private sector
EP 37
Creating ‘green jobs,’ the American garage sale
EP 38
Chemical pollution and the EPA
EP 39
Help wanted
EP 40
The politics of resentment
EP 41
The nuclear question
EP 42
Jobs in the balance
EP 43
Creating opportunity
EP 44
Coming home: The enduring sacrifice
EP 45
The Pentagon: Hard times, hard choices
EP 46
Resisting Alabama’s immigration crackdown
EP 47
Help wanted: Revisiting Ohio
EP 48
Making Congress work
EP 49
Mayor under siege
EP 50
Christian-Muslim relations in Iraq
EP 51
Eye on Iowa

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."