As of July 2026, PBS News Hour Season 41 aired in 2015 with 261 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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PBS News Hour Season 41

2015 261 Episodes News ⭐ 6/10

PBS News Hour Season 41 is currently streaming on major platforms, and it rewards the patience it asks of you. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. A 6/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Watch it for Gwen Ifill — one of the stronger performances out there right now. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

PBS News Hour Season 41 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. The writing in PBS News Hour Season 41 treats its characters as people first, plot devices second. Season 41 of PBS News Hour includes 261 episodes. It aired from January 2016 to December 2016. This season stars Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff. Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2015. The performances in PBS News Hour Season 41 do a lot of work in the silences between the dialogue. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

PBS News Hour Season 41 is what you recommend to people who say they do not really watch much. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. Gwen Ifill is the centre of it, and it is one of their strongest performances on record. The patience it asks of you early on is paid back with interest.

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🎬 PBS News Hour Season 41 — Episode Guide

E1
January 1, 2016
2016-01-01
Friday on the NewsHour, Iran vows to expand its missile production despite possible new U.S. sanctions. Also: What civilians who remain in the Syrian city of Aleppo face, Mark Shields and Michael Gerson on a year of political news and the National Book Award winner for fiction.
E2
Bill Clinton returns to the trail to campaign for Hillary
2016-01-04
Former President Bill Clinton made his first solo appearances on the campaign trail in New Hampshire to support his wife Hillary's 2016 campaign. Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report and Tamara Keith of NPR join Judy Woodruff to discuss the strategy behind Donald Trump’s first television ad, plus...
E3
January 5, 2016
2016-01-05
Tuesday on the NewsHour, President Obama makes an emotional appeal for background checks and outlines other actions to curb gun violence. Also: A view from Tehran over tensions with Saudi Arabia, New Hampshire grapples with a heroin epidemic, a historic graduation for young Afghan women and MacArthu...
E4
January 6, 2016
2016-01-06
Wednesday on the NewsHour, North Korea claims it has successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. Also: Why Americans are buying more and bigger cars, efforts to cap sky-high interest rates, a look at life in Mexico after deportation and using cardboard to help children with disabilities.
E5
January 7, 2016
2016-01-07
Thursday on the NewsHour, China's market makes a great fall, routing stocks around the world. Also: How the 2016 election is playing out in advertisements, new guidelines for how to eat, getting happiness by giving to others, the lifelong consequences of segregated schools, a new true crime document...
E6
January 8, 2016
2016-01-08
Friday on the NewsHour, the last jobs report of 2015 shows signs of sustained growth in the U.S. economy despite global turmoil. Also: Mexican drug lord El Chapo recaptured, sexual assault stoke tensions over migrants in Germany, rising interest in personal health technology and David Brooks and Dav...
E7
January 11, 2016
2016-01-11
Monday on the NewsHour, with weeks to go until the Iowa Caucuses, the race between Democrats Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders tightens. Also: A campaign to bridge the partisan divide, the legacy of David Bowie, the Supreme Court considers mandatory union dues, the ethics of interviewing.
E8
January 12, 2016
2016-01-12
Tuesday on the NewsHour, President Obama prepares to set the tone for his final year in office with his last State of the Union address. Also: A deadly suicide bombing rips through Istanbul, the UN delivers aid to a besieged Syrian city, college graduates help first-generation students with applicat...
E9
January 13, 2016
2016-01-13
Wednesday on the NewsHour, 10 U.S. sailors are released after their boats were seized for entering Iranian waters. Also, President Obama uses his State of the Union address to critique the 2016 race, a former NRA chief talks gun policy, Germany’s migrant stance draws local backlash, the St. Louis Ra...
E10
January 14, 2016
2016-01-14
Thursday on the NewsHour, Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for a terror attack that killed seven in Jakarta. Also, the story beyond the tragic image of a dead Syrian refugee that went viral, the White House’s vow to end cancer in America, the Academy Awards struggle with diversity, old...
E11
January 15, 2016
2016-01-15
Friday on the NewsHour, Chinese market struggles and plummeting oil prices lead to big losses on Wall Street. Also: Donald Trump and Ted Cruz dominate the Republican debate, Shields and Brooks discuss the 2016 presidential race, Silicon Valley tries to fix its diversity problem and Civil War trauma ...
E12
January 18, 2016
2016-01-18
Monday on the NewsHour, sanctions are lifted and prisoners are freed in what could be a new era of relations with Iran. Also: Democratic presidential candidates meet up for their final debate before voting, a massive natural gas leak displaces families in California and the words of Martin Luther Ki...
E13
January 19, 2016
2016-01-19
Tuesday on the NewsHour, the Supreme Court will hear the case against President Obama’s executive action allowing 4 million undocumented immigrants to stay in the U.S. Also: U.S. Envoy Brett McGurk reflects on the prisoner exchange with Iran, China’s economy grows at its slowest rate in decades, an ...
E14
January 20, 2016
2016-01-20
Wednesday on the NewsHour, a water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has the governor on the defensive and residents outraged. Also: A warning for pregnant women about the Zika virus, rethinking what’s important on the college application, reporters on the campaign trail to go beyond the polls in Iowa and ...
E15
January 21, 2016
2016-01-21
Thursday on the NewsHour, a British inquiry concludes that Russian President Vladimir Putin likely approved the killing of Alexander Litvinenko. Also: Sen. Rand Paul shares his secret to winning Iowa, the Buffalo Bills hire the NFL’s first female coach, an author examines the ingredients for genius,...
E16
January 22, 2016
2016-01-22
Friday on the NewsHour, Washington joined other parts of the East Coast in declaring a state of emergency ahead of a massive snowstorm. Also: Presidential candidates sharpen their attacks as voting draws closer, Brooks and Marcus discuss the week in politics, a possible new ninth planet, schools add...
E17
January 25, 2016
2016-01-25
Monday on the NewsHour, a look at recovery efforts as the East Coast digs out from a deadly blizzard. Also: The race for caucus support as the Iowa contest nears, Egypt five years after a political uprising, gold wars in Washington state, calls for accountability in the Flint water crisis, ancient s...
E18
January 26, 2016
2016-01-26
Tuesday on the NewsHour, President Obama announces plans to ban solitary confinement for youth in federal prisons. Also: Campaigning intensifies as Iowa draws near, how presidential candidates tap into fear, high school vocational training as an alternative to college, the government battles postpar...
E19
January 27, 2016
2016-01-27
Wednesday on the NewsHour, a confrontation between law enforcement and an anti-government militia in Oregon ends with arrests and one death. Also: Donald Trump opts out of the next debate, Kenya’s war against poachers, Google develops the latest in A.I. technology, a freed reporter works to reclaim ...
E20
January 28, 2016
2016-01-28
Thursday on the NewsHour, the World Health Organization considers issuing an emergency over the fast-spreading Zika virus. Also: An American freed from Iranian prison describes his ordeal, a Republican debate without Trump, how ethanol may fuel Iowa voters, why the U.S. economy’s best days may be ov...

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Gwen Ifill
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Judy Woodruff
Judy Woodruff
Self - Anchor

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