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Planet America

Season 2 2013

  • 2013-01-22T11:00:00Z on ABC
  • 40m
  • 12h (18 episodes)
  • Australia
  • English
  • News, Comedy
Chas Licciardello and John Barron set out to discover the real America - its politics and its people - with US and Australian experts coming along for the ride.

18 episodes

Season Premiere

2013-01-22T11:00:00Z

2x01 Episode 1

Season Premiere

2x01 Episode 1

  • 2013-01-22T11:00:00Z40m

A special edition of Planet America with John Barron and Chas Licciardello. They discuss US President Barack Obama's inauguration with Brendan O'Connor and Sarah James.

2013-02-01T11:00:00Z

2x02 Episode 2

2x02 Episode 2

  • 2013-02-01T11:00:00Z40m

Planet America is back for 2013. On tonight's episode, Republican Tom Tancredo says neither party wants to fix immigration, and Nate Silver on polls and poker.

2013-02-08T11:00:00Z

2x03 Episode 3

2x03 Episode 3

  • 2013-02-08T11:00:00Z40m

In this episode, gun violence claims the life of America's most famous sniper and the US drone program faces renewed scrutiny.

2013-02-15T11:00:00Z

2x04 Episode 4

2x04 Episode 4

  • 2013-02-15T11:00:00Z40m

In this episode, former presidential speechwriter James Fallows on the State of the Union and Barack Obama's second term agenda.

2013-02-22T11:00:00Z

2x05 Episode 5

2x05 Episode 5

  • 2013-02-22T11:00:00Z40m

On this week's episode of Planet America, an anti-gun lawyer who's also anti-gun control laws, and the inability of the states to reach a deal on deficit reduction.

2013-03-01T11:00:00Z

2x06 Episode 6

2x06 Episode 6

  • 2013-03-01T11:00:00Z40m

This week, Barack Obama's internet advertising guru Andrew Bleeker on how the web helped win the White House and Chas and John attempt to explain the sequester using a plate of french fries.

2013-03-08T11:00:00Z

2x07 Episode 7

2x07 Episode 7

  • 2013-03-08T11:00:00Z40m

In this episode, calls for a halt to drilling for new gas wells in the US as new research casts doubt over its environmental benefits, and Senator Rand Paul filibusters the confirmation of John Brennan as the next head of the CIA.

2013-03-15T11:00:00Z

2x08 Episode 8

2x08 Episode 8

  • 2013-03-15T11:00:00Z40m

On this episode of Planet America, we preview Barack Obama’s first trip to Israel as US president and ten years on from the Iraq War.

2013-03-22T11:00:00Z

2x09 Episode 9

2x09 Episode 9

  • 2013-03-22T11:00:00Z40m

The Chaser's Chas Licciardello and the ABC's John Barron set out to discover the real America – its politics and its people – with US and Australian experts coming along for the ride!

2013-03-29T11:00:00Z

2x10 Episode 10

2x10 Episode 10

  • 2013-03-29T11:00:00Z40m

In this episode of Planet America, we take a look at the gay marriage case before the US Supreme Court, and discuss religion in America ahead of Easter.

2013-04-05T11:00:00Z

2x11 Episode 11

2x11 Episode 11

  • 2013-04-05T11:00:00Z40m

On Planet America, what the 2012 presidential campaign revealed about the state of the news media and the BBC's Nick Bryant talks immigration reform.

2013-04-12T11:30:00Z

2x12 Episode 12

2x12 Episode 12

  • 2013-04-12T11:30:00Z40m

On this episode of Planet America, Chas and John talk to a former FBI agent who went undercover in American Neo-Nazi gangs and they take a look at the limits on presidential power.

2013-04-19T11:30:00Z

2x13 Episode 13

2x13 Episode 13

  • 2013-04-19T11:30:00Z40m

On Planet America, Chas and John speak to the former presidential counter-terrorism adviser, Richard Clarke.

2013-04-26T11:30:00Z

2x14 Episode 14

2x14 Episode 14

  • 2013-04-26T11:30:00Z40m

On this episode of Planet America, the lessons learnt from the Boston bombings and the view from America’s police about gun laws.

2013-05-03T11:30:00Z

2x15 Episode 15

2x15 Episode 15

  • 2013-05-03T11:30:00Z40m

On this episode of Planet America, John Barron is joined by political scientist and expert number cruncher Simon Jackman and we meet the Las Vegas man heading the push to have a mountain named after Ronald Reagan.

2013-05-10T11:30:00Z

2x16 Episode 16

2x16 Episode 16

  • 2013-05-10T11:30:00Z40m

A look at the influence of lobbyists over American politics; from healthcare to gun control, who really pulls the strings?

2013-05-17T11:30:00Z

2x17 Episode 17

2x17 Episode 17

  • 2013-05-17T11:30:00Z40m

On this episode of Planet America, Bill Clinton’s former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on whether Hillary is running in 2016 and former Labor Senator Stephen Loosley joins John and Chas at the roundish table.

2013-05-24T11:30:00Z

2x18 Episode 18

2x18 Episode 18

  • 2013-05-24T11:30:00Z40m

On this episode of Planet America, Professor Ed Blakely on the recovery effort following the Oklahoma tornado and Barack Obama’s Chief Digital Strategist Joe Rospars.

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