Every episode of Now We Know TV! takes viewers inside one organization to answer a question worth asking. Here is how an episode works and where to start in the Season 1 catalog.
Inside an episode
Thirty minutes, three ingredients. Each one is produced with broadcast-grade craft and a genuine respect for the viewer's curiosity.
Host Steve Guttenberg frames the question of the week and why it matters to the way we live.
Correspondent Will Barnes goes on location, inside the farm, factory, or clinic, with the people who do the work.
Every segment lands on something you can actually use: how it works, why it matters, what we know now.
Browse the catalog
Season 1 covers a lot of ground. Pick the subject that pulls at you and follow it to the case study behind the segment.
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From certified forests to mountains of recycled aluminum, these segments follow the people making "sustainable" a measurable practice instead of a marketing word.
Segments Responsible Forest Management with the Forest Stewardship Council · The circular economy with Schupan
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Century-old manufacturers building self-driving machines. Print shops that turn files into products in hours. Innovation on this show is hands-on, practical, and already at work.
Segments Autonomous cleaning machines at Tennant Company · On-demand production at Monster Digital
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What does better access to care look like, and what should we know about what we eat and drink? These segments bring health innovation down to human scale.
Segments Care, Reimagined with OnMed · The a2 protein story with the a2 Milk Company
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Some of our favorite segments simply explain something everyone wonders about and nobody explains. Plain-language answers from the experts who live the subject.
Segments How executive pay gets set with F.W. Cook · Who checks "responsibly managed" with the Forest Stewardship Council
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Ships the length of city blocks, working steam locomotives, and the transit systems that move whole regions. These segments celebrate the machinery of motion and its crews.
Segments American shipbuilding at Austal USA · Heritage rail at Strasburg Rail Road and Cape Cod Railroad
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Machinists keeping century-old locomotives alive. Designers agonizing over the inside of a shoe. Gear built to survive a whole season of youth sports. Craft is where the show slows down and looks closely.
Segments Made to Last at Strasburg Rail Road · Comfort by design at Taos Footwear · Built for the season at Champro Sports
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Institutions earn their place in a community over generations. These segments look at what that trust is built on, from a 19th-century savings bank to a family farm shipping fruit to strangers who become regulars.
Segments Community banking at Apple Bank · Farm to front door with Miami Fruit
Beyond the broadcast
When a single segment is not enough, our production team creates long-form documentary films that capture the full arc of a company, a founder, or a mission. Cinema-grade productions built for boardrooms, trade shows, websites, and the screen.
Recent corporate docs
11 AM Eastern on CNBC, streaming on demand after broadcast.