About this season
Tavis Smiley features a unique mix of news and pop culture to combine for one thought-provoking and entertaining program. A hybrid of news, issues and entertainment, it features interviews with artists, activists, newsmakers, politicians and everyday people. Since its first season, the show has won four NAACP Image Awards for "Outstanding Television, News, Talk, or Information (Series or Special)." Taped at KCET studios, Tavis Smiley is the first West Coast talk show for PBS and is produced by The Smiley Group Inc./TS Media Inc. in association with KCET/Hollywood.
Episodes (199)
1. Kristin Scott Thomas, Don Guter
Aired 26 January 2009 • 30 min
2. Stephen J. Cannell, Janis Kearney
Aired 27 January 2009 • 30 min
3. Sen. Roland Burris, M.I.A.
Aired 28 January 2009 • 30 min
4. Mickey Rourke
Aired 29 January 2009 • 30 min
5. Danny Boyle
Aired 30 January 2009 • 30 min
6. Dr. Martin Indyk, Viola Davis
Aired 2 February 2009 • 30 min
7. Garry Shandling
Aired 3 February 2009 • 30 min
8. Sean Penn
Aired 4 February 2009 • 30 min
9. Danny Glover, Q-Tip
Aired 5 February 2009 • 30 min
10. Ashford & Simpson
Aired 6 February 2009 • 30 min
11. Suze Orman
Aired 9 February 2009 • 30 min
12. Melissa Leo, Carlos Moore
Aired 10 February 2009 • 30 min
13. Greg Mortenson, Sen. Robert Menendez
Aired 11 February 2009 • 30 min
14. Graham Nash
Aired 12 February 2009 • 30 min
15. Neil deGrasse Tyson, David Denby
Aired 13 February 2009 • 30 min
16. Former President Jimmy Carter
Aired 16 February 2009 • 30 min
17. Lamont Dozier, Raphael Saadiq
Aired 17 February 2009 • 30 min
18. Dr. Palitha Kohona, Ravi Nessman
Aired 18 February 2009 • 30 min
19. 2009 Oscar nominees
Aired 19 February 2009 • 30 min
20. Joan Baez
Aired 20 February 2009 • 30 min
21. T.C. Boyle
Aired 23 February 2009 • 30 min
22. Esperanza Spalding, Adam Cohen
Aired 24 February 2009 • 30 min
23. Bill Maher
Aired 25 February 2009 • 30 min
24. Bryan Cranston, Becky Quick
Aired 26 February 2009 • 30 min
25. Jeffrey Sachs, T.C. Boyle
Aired 27 February 2009 • 30 min
26. Neko Case, Rep. Marsha Blackburn
Aired 9 March 2009 • 30 min
27. Ian McShane, Thomas Ricks
Aired 10 March 2009 • 30 min
28. Robert Gates
Aired 11 March 2009 • 30 min
29. Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Noah Wyle
Aired 12 March 2009 • 30 min
30. Felicity Huffman, Tony Dungy
Aired 13 March 2009 • 30 min
31. Dan Baum, Bill Paxton
Aired 16 March 2009 • 30 min
32. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, Bobby Womack
Aired 17 March 2009 • 30 min
33. Timothy Hutton, Thomas P.M. Barnett
Aired 18 March 2009 • 30 min
34. Tricia Rose, Zoe Heller
Aired 19 March 2009 • 30 min
35. Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean
Aired 20 March 2009 • 30 min
36. Simon Baker, Newt Gingrich
Aired 23 March 2009 • 30 min
37. Dr. Keith Black, The-Dream
Aired 24 March 2009 • 30 min
38. A tribute to John Hope Franklin
Aired 25 March 2009 • 30 min
39. Carla Harris, Bobby Cannavale
Aired 26 March 2009 • 30 min
40. Judith Jamison, Israel Houghton
Aired 28 March 2009 • 30 min
41. Judith Jamison
Aired 27 March 2009 • 30 min
42. Emmanuel Jal, Sen. Kent Conrad
Aired 30 March 2009 • 30 min
43. Jaime Pressly, William Cohan
Aired 31 March 2009 • 30 min
44. A tribute to Marvin Gaye
Aired 1 April 2009 • 30 min
45. Carlos Santana
Aired 2 April 2009 • 30 min
46. Israel Houghton, Seth Davis
Aired 3 April 2009 • 30 min
47. Kevin Spacey
Aired 6 April 2009 • 30 min
48. Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Aired 7 April 2009 • 30 min
49. Ray Liotta, Gary Locke
Aired 8 April 2009 • 30 min
50. James Ingram, Nandan Nilekani
Aired 9 April 2009 • 30 min
51. Mark Robert Waldman
Aired 10 April 2009 • 30 min
52. Rep. Henry Waxman, Idris Elba
Aired 13 April 2009 • 30 min
53. Abraham Verghese, Labelle
Aired 14 April 2009 • 30 min
54. Anna Paquin, Robert Greenwald
Aired 15 April 2009 • 30 min
55. Dara Torres, India.Arie
Aired 16 April 2009 • 30 min
56. Sgt. Juan Luis Alcivar
Aired 17 April 2009 • 30 min
57. Rep. Barney Frank, Hugh Masekela
Aired 20 April 2009 • 30 min
58. Wangari Maathai
Aired 21 April 2009 • 30 min
59. Leslie Gelb, David Brenner
Aired 22 April 2009 • 30 min
60. Sgt. Juan Luis Alcivar, Anika Noni Rose
Aired 23 April 2009 • 30 min
61. Tracey Ullman
Aired 24 April 2009 • 30 min
62. Prince
Aired 27 April 2009 • 30 min
63. Bria Valente, Prince
Aired 28 April 2009 • 30 min
64. Kristin Chenoweth, Roger Wilkins
Aired 29 April 2009 • 30 min
65. Joshua Cooper Ramo, Mike Krzyzewski
Aired 30 April 2009 • 30 min
66. Mary Higgins Clark
Aired 1 May 2009 • 30 min
67. Thomas Cahill, Ziggy Marley
Aired 4 May 2009 • 30 min
68. Sam Haskell, Donald Faison
Aired 5 May 2009 • 30 min
69. Darryl Strawberry
Aired 6 May 2009 • 30 min
70. Dr. Walter Earl Fluker, Patti Davis
Aired 7 May 2009 • 30 min
71. J.J. Abrams
Aired 8 May 2009 • 30 min
72. Joe Queenan, Dr. William Baker
Aired 11 May 2009 • 30 min
73. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Baron Davis, Stacy Peralta
Aired 12 May 2009 • 30 min
74. Steve Earle, John Harwood
Aired 13 May 2009 • 30 min
75. Maxwell, Michael Fauntroy
Aired 14 May 2009 • 30 min
76. Steve Zahn, Brendan Gleeson
Aired 15 May 2009 • 30 min
77. Earth, Wind & Fire, Richard Haass
Aired 18 May 2009 • 30 min
78. Steve Martin
Aired 19 May 2009 • 30 min
79. Reza Aslan, Common
Aired 20 May 2009 • 30 min
80. Ed Asner
Aired 21 May 2009 • 30 min
81. Bill Russell
Aired 22 May 2009 • 30 min
82. Mandy Moore, Cesar Perales
Aired 1 June 2009 • 30 min
83. Norman Lear
Aired 2 June 2009 • 30 min
84. Edie Falco, Paul Ingrassia
Aired 3 June 2009 • 30 min
85. Vernon Jordan
Aired 4 June 2009 • 30 min
86. Nia Vardalos, Azadeh Moaveni
Aired 5 June 2009 • 30 min
87. Kevin Bacon, Dave Bing
Aired 8 June 2009 • 30 min
88. Nanci Griffith, Mary Frances Berry
Aired 9 June 2009 • 30 min
89. Joe Scarborough, Sharon Jones
Aired 10 June 2009 • 30 min
90. Larry King
Aired 11 June 2009 • 30 min
91. Colson Whitehead, Della Reese
Aired 12 June 2009 • 30 min
92. Karen Bass, Mary McCormack
Aired 15 June 2009 • 30 min
93. Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Marina Nemat
Aired 16 June 2009 • 30 min
94. Chris Noth, Ali Sethi
Aired 17 June 2009 • 30 min
95. Roseanne Barr
Aired 18 June 2009 • 30 min
96. Luma Mufleh, Rick Steves
Aired 19 June 2009 • 30 min
97. Trita Parsi, Hilda Solis
Aired 22 June 2009 • 30 min
98. Francis Ford Coppola
Aired 23 June 2009 • 30 min
99. Francis Ford Coppola, Femi Kuti
Aired 24 June 2009 • 30 min
100. Mary Mary
Aired 25 June 2009 • 30 min
101. Katty Kay, Paul Giamatti
Aired 26 June 2009 • 30 min
102. A tribute to Michael Jackson, Berry Gordy
Aired 29 June 2009 • 30 min
103. Michael Eric Dyson, Dr. Cornel West
Aired 30 June 2009 • 30 min
104. Shohreh Aghdashloo, Roger Cohen
Aired 1 July 2009 • 30 min
105. Bill Pullman, Debo Adegbile
Aired 2 July 2009 • 30 min
106. Jane Mayer, Malina Saval
Aired 3 July 2009 • 30 min
107. Jeremy Renner, David Ignatius
Aired 6 July 2009 • 30 min
108. Berry Gordy, the Homemade Jamz Blues Band
Aired 7 July 2009 • 30 min
109. Lisa Kudrow, Mayor James Young
Aired 8 July 2009 • 30 min
110. Peter Peterson, Dr. Michael Roizen
Aired 9 July 2009 • 30 min
111. Dr. Olufunmilayo Olopade, Jessica Queller, Diahann Carroll
Aired 10 July 2009 • 30 min
112. Jay Leno
Aired 10 August 2009 • 30 min
113. Mark Johnson, Jay Leno
Aired 11 August 2009 • 30 min
114. Corneille, Rep. Baron Hill
Aired 12 August 2009 • 30 min
115. Biz Stone, Gloria Reuben
Aired 13 August 2009 • 30 min
116. Davis Guggenheim, David Faber
Aired 14 August 2009 • 30 min
117. Dylan McDermott, Warren Moon
Aired 17 August 2009 • 30 min
118. Smokey Robinson
Aired 18 August 2009 • 30 min
119. Howard Dean, a tribute to Don Hewitt
Aired 19 August 2009 • 30 min
120. Arne Duncan, Benjamin Barber
Aired 20 August 2009 • 30 min
121. Alexis Bledel, Stan Brock
Aired 21 August 2009 • 30 min
122. Quentin Tarantino
Aired 24 August 2009 • 30 min
123. Reba McEntire, Dean Koontz
Aired 25 August 2009 • 30 min
124. Rep. John Lewis, Vernon Jordan
Aired 26 August 2009 • 30 min
125. Ron Williams, Eric Sundquist
Aired 27 August 2009 • 30 min
126. Josh Charles, Douglas Brinkley
Aired 28 August 2009 • 30 min
127. Doug Pray, Robert Baer
Aired 31 August 2009 • 30 min
128. Alex S. Jones, Mekhi Phifer
Aired 1 September 2009 • 30 min
129. Ledisi, Peter Baker
Aired 2 September 2009 • 30 min
130. George Foreman, Fred Kaplan
Aired 3 September 2009 • 30 min
131. Terence Blanchard
Aired 4 September 2009 • 30 min
132. Smokey Robinson
Aired 7 September 2009 • 30 min
134. Ken Burns
Aired 15 September 2009 • 30 min
135. Ted Kennedy Jr.
Aired 16 September 2009 • 30 min
136. R. Dwayne Betts
Aired 17 September 2009 • 30 min
137. Jenna Elfman, Matthew Weiner
Aired 18 September 2009 • 30 min
139. Herb Alpert, Lani Hall
Aired 22 September 2009 • 30 min
140. David Duchovny, Rep. Mike Pence
Aired 23 September 2009 • 30 min
141. Dr. Yvonne Sanders-Butler, Michael Strahan, Daryl Mitchell
Aired 24 September 2009 • 30 min
143. Ken Burns
Aired 28 September 2009 • 30 min
144. Michael Moore
Aired 29 September 2009 • 30 min
145. Tom Ridge, Adam Arkin
Aired 30 September 2009 • 30 min
146. Rodrigo y Gabriela, James Brown
Aired 1 October 2009 • 30 min
148. Max Blumenthal, Michael C. Hall
Aired 5 October 2009 • 30 min
149. Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., George Benson
Aired 6 October 2009 • 30 min
151. Dr. Cornel West
Aired 8 October 2009 • 30 min
152. Karen Armstrong, Nick Hornby
Aired 9 October 2009 • 30 min
153. Michael Sheen, Aaron S. Williams
Aired 12 October 2009 • 30 min
154. James Ellroy, Sen. Bill Nelson
Aired 13 October 2009 • 30 min
156. Pete Escovedo, Sheila E.
Aired 15 October 2009 • 30 min
157. Dr. Terrence Roberts, Joshua Bell
Aired 16 October 2009 • 30 min
158. Amb. Michael Oren, Michael Chabon
Aired 19 October 2009 • 30 min
159. Michelle Monaghan, Vali Nasr
Aired 20 October 2009 • 30 min
160. Rep. Ron Paul, Bob Herbert
Aired 21 October 2009 • 30 min
161. Anthony Edwards, The RZA
Aired 22 October 2009 • 30 min
162. Andy Williams
Aired 23 October 2009 • 30 min
163. Malcolm Gladwell, Robin D.G. Kelley
Aired 26 October 2009 • 30 min
164. Haleh Esfandiari, Nicholas Kristof
Aired 27 October 2009 • 30 min
166. Dr. Ruth Simmons
Aired 29 October 2009 • 30 min
167. Marcus Roberts, Edward Norton
Aired 30 October 2009 • 30 min
168. Kris Kristofferson
Aired 2 November 2009 • 30 min
169. Nomi Prins, the Swell Season
Aired 3 November 2009 • 30 min
171. Lee Eisenberg, Susie Essman
Aired 5 November 2009 • 30 min
172. Mitch Albom, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Aired 6 November 2009 • 30 min
173. Andrew Ross Sorkin, Lang Lang
Aired 9 November 2009 • 30 min
174. Max Cleland, Amerie
Aired 10 November 2009 • 30 min
176. Bruce Feiler
Aired 12 November 2009 • 30 min
177. Lance Reddick, Jason Zweig
Aired 13 November 2009 • 30 min
178. Dan Senor, Gail Collins
Aired 16 November 2009 • 30 min
179. Harry Connick Jr.
Aired 17 November 2009 • 30 min
180. Paul Mooney
Aired 18 November 2009 • 30 min
181. Andre Agassi
Aired 19 November 2009 • 30 min
182. 50 Cent
Aired 20 November 2009 • 30 min
183. Dave Matthews
Aired 25 November 2009 • 30 min
184. Viggo Mortensen
Aired 30 November 2009 • 30 min
185. Ali Eteraz, Angie Stone
Aired 1 December 2009 • 30 min
186. Amy Goodman, Jason Schwartzman
Aired 2 December 2009 • 30 min
187. Malcolm Gladwell, Robin D.G. Kelley
Aired 3 December 2009 • 30 min
188. Dr. Ruth Simmons
Aired 4 December 2009 • 30 min
189. Ann Louise Bardach, Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.
Aired 7 December 2009 • 30 min
190. Yo-Yo Ma
Aired 8 December 2009 • 30 min
191. Gov. David Paterson, Fred Willard
Aired 9 December 2009 • 30 min
192. Morgan Freeman
Aired 10 December 2009 • 30 min
194. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeff Bridges, Sen. Bernie Sanders
Aired 14 December 2009 • 30 min
195. Boyz II Men, Ann Louise Bardach
Aired 15 December 2009 • 30 min
196. Gov. Ed Rendell, Shirley Caesar
Aired 16 December 2009 • 30 min
197. James Cameron
Aired 17 December 2009 • 30 min
198. Kenneth Wade, James Bradley
Aired 18 December 2009 • 30 min
199. Mary J. Blige
Aired 21 December 2009 • 30 min
200. Youth Leadership Panel with Eduardo Campos, Kate Sim, Cortlan Wickliff, Kimberly Anyadike, Galen Dodd & Rocio Ortega
Aired 22 December 2009 • 30 min
201. Alan Alda, Tobey Maguire
Aired 11 January 2010 • 30 min
202. Sandra Bullock
Aired 12 January 2010 • 30 min
203. Joe Torre
Aired 13 January 2010 • 30 min
204. Rosanne Cash
Aired 14 January 2010 • 30 min
205. Bob Newhart, Dan Balz
Aired 15 January 2010 • 30 min
207. Nicole Lee, Jim Wallis
Aired 19 January 2010 • 30 min
208. Jason Reitman, Walter Isaacson
Aired 20 January 2010 • 30 min
209. Marion Cotillard, Robert Lacey
Aired 21 January 2010 • 30 min
210. Keri Russell, Paul Ingrassia
Aired 22 January 2010 • 30 min