
Before hosting Discovery's "Dirty Jobs," Mike Rowe had a program in San Francisco about folks on a mission -- mad scientists, eccentric collectors, devoted do-gooders -- called "Somebody's Gotta Do It." Now, CNN gives Rowe free rein to scour the country for people who, he says, "do what they do because of a weird mix of love, compulsion, obsession, dedication -- whatever it is. Those people have always interested me." The former series focused on the task, but this version spotlights the personality. Or, as he puts it: "More mission, less poop."

Mike becomes a bicycle cabbie for Ali Horuz, a Turkish immigrant who turned $500 into a bike-taxi, moving billboard, fabrication and advertising agency company; Mike tours the Lunchbox Museum and learns everything about the collectible metal boxes.

Mike Rowe goes to New York to meet a man who risks his life to sell a lucrative commodity; a peek into a side of the restaurant market that no one probably knows about.

Mike Rowe travels to Oakland, Calif., to join the Bandaloop troop in a dance routine on the side of the Great Wall.

Mike Rowe joins the carpentry masters of Lamon Luther to build a table, all in the name of pulling lumber and people out of the scrap heap and into a more fulfilling life.