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 (277)
2. Nicole Lee, Jim Wallis
Aired 19 January 2010 • 30 min
3. Jason Reitman, Walter Isaacson
Aired 20 January 2010 • 30 min
4. Marion Cotillard, Robert Lacey
Aired 21 January 2010 • 30 min
5. Keri Russell, Paul Ingrassia
Aired 22 January 2010 • 30 min
6. Newt Gingrich, Raj Patel
Aired 25 January 2010 • 30 min
7. Peter Fonda, David Sanger
Aired 26 January 2010 • 30 min
8. Corinne Bailey Rae
Aired 27 January 2010 • 30 min
9. Dr. James Forbes
Aired 28 January 2010 • 30 min
10. Eugene Jarecki, Max Siegel
Aired 29 January 2010 • 30 min
11. Ed O'Neill, John Yoo
Aired 1 February 2010 • 30 min
12. Wyclef Jean, Trey Songz
Aired 2 February 2010 • 30 min
13. Pete Docter, Sen. John Cornyn
Aired 3 February 2010 • 30 min
14. Bill Withers
Aired 4 February 2010 • 30 min
16. Richard Schiff, Robert Kaiser
Aired 8 February 2010 • 30 min
17. James Horner, Thomas Ricks
Aired 9 February 2010 • 30 min
18. Garry Marshall, Joel Kotkin
Aired 10 February 2010 • 30 min
19. Daniel Pink, Louie Psihoyos
Aired 11 February 2010 • 30 min
21. Myrlie Evers-Williams
Aired 15 February 2010 • 30 min
22. Tracy Morgan, Fred Swaniker
Aired 16 February 2010 • 30 min
23. Stephen Dubner, Neil Irwin
Aired 17 February 2010 • 30 min
24. Charles Blow
Aired 18 February 2010 • 30 min
25. William Hurt
Aired 19 February 2010 • 30 min
26. Drew Carey, Michael Duffy
Aired 22 February 2010 • 30 min
27. Mark Ruffalo, Gabriel Thompson
Aired 23 February 2010 • 30 min
28. Sen. Sherrod Brown, Sen. Evan Bayh
Aired 24 February 2010 • 30 min
29. Van Jones
Aired 25 February 2010 • 30 min
32. Angelique Kidjo
Aired 2 March 2010 • 30 min
33. Ethan Hawke, Phyllis Bennis
Aired 3 March 2010 • 30 min
34. Oscar Preview
Aired 4 March 2010 • 30 min
37. Sandra Bullock
Aired 9 March 2010 • 30 min
38. James Cameron
Aired 10 March 2010 • 30 min
39. Morgan Freeman
Aired 11 March 2010 • 30 min
40. Quentin Tarantino
Aired 12 March 2010 • 30 min
41. Michael Moore
Aired 15 March 2010 • 30 min
42. Tom Burrell
Aired 16 March 2010 • 30 min
43. Andy Garcia, Rep. Tom Price
Aired 17 March 2010 • 30 min
44. Queen Latifah, Chang-rae Lee
Aired 18 March 2010 • 30 min
45. Michelle Alexander, Michael Sheen
Aired 19 March 2010 • 30 min
46. Mario Van Peebles, Rep. John Dingell
Aired 22 March 2010 • 30 min
47. Shankar Vedantam
Aired 23 March 2010 • 30 min
48. Dee Dee Bridgewater
Aired 24 March 2010 • 30 min
49. Steven Gray, Holly Hunter
Aired 25 March 2010 • 30 min
50. Pierce Brosnan
Aired 26 March 2010 • 30 min
51. Marvin Sapp, David Albright
Aired 29 March 2010 • 30 min
52. Richard Stengel, Elizabeth Mitchell
Aired 30 March 2010 • 30 min
53. Anna Torv, Marc Morial
Aired 31 March 2010 • 30 min
54. Jakob Dylan, David Shenk
Aired 1 April 2010 • 30 min
55. Maria Bartiromo, Bryan Cranston
Aired 2 April 2010 • 30 min
56. David Simon, Rep. Sandy Levin
Aired 5 April 2010 • 30 min
57. Benjamin Barber
Aired 6 April 2010 • 30 min
58. Father Greg Boyle, Kim Raver
Aired 7 April 2010 • 30 min
59. Annie Leonard, David Frum
Aired 8 April 2010 • 30 min
60. Mark Harmon, Harry Markopolos
Aired 9 April 2010 • 30 min
61. Ian McEwan, Timothy Olyphant
Aired 12 April 2010 • 30 min
62. Diane Ravitch, Rodney & Holly Robinson Peete
Aired 13 April 2010 • 30 min
63. Anne Lamott, Elizabeth Warren
Aired 14 April 2010 • 30 min
64. Chris Rock
Aired 15 April 2010 • 30 min
65. Andie MacDowell, Raheem DeVaughn
Aired 16 April 2010 • 30 min
66. Raquel Welch
Aired 19 April 2010 • 30 min
67. Jerry Weintraub
Aired 20 April 2010 • 30 min
69. Lisa Kudrow, Steven Solomon
Aired 22 April 2010 • 30 min
71. Sonia Sanchez, Mitch Landrieu
Aired 26 April 2010 • 30 min
72. Judy Collins, Richard Clarke
Aired 27 April 2010 • 30 min
75. Carol Burnett
Aired 30 April 2010 • 30 min
77. Gov. Bill Richardson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Aired 4 May 2010 • 30 min
78. Dana Delaney, Ceci Connolly
Aired 5 May 2010 • 30 min
80. Richard Dreyfuss
Aired 7 May 2010 • 30 min
82. Mavis Leno, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Aired 11 May 2010 • 30 min
83. Nouriel Roubini, Isabel Allende
Aired 12 May 2010 • 30 min
84. Pam Grier
Aired 13 May 2010 • 30 min
85. Rebecca Skloot, Arturo Sandoval
Aired 14 May 2010 • 30 min
86. Damon Wayans, Chuck Palahniuk
Aired 17 May 2010 • 30 min
87. Ben Kingsley, Trombone Shorty
Aired 18 May 2010 • 30 min
88. Garry Shandling
Aired 19 May 2010 • 30 min
89. Bruce Feiler, Isobel Coleman
Aired 20 May 2010 • 30 min
90. Michael Douglas
Aired 21 May 2010 • 30 min
91. Dennis Quaid, Damian Marley with Nas
Aired 24 May 2010 • 30 min
92. David Gregory, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Aired 25 May 2010 • 30 min
93. Allison Moorer, Robert Kuttner
Aired 26 May 2010 • 30 min
94. Wes Moore, Alfredo Gutierrez
Aired 27 May 2010 • 30 min
95. Sebastian Junger, Chuck Palahniuk
Aired 28 May 2010 • 30 min
96. Rep. Joe Sestak
Aired 7 June 2010 • 30 min
97. Diane Warren, Michael Hiltzik
Aired 8 June 2010 • 30 min
98. Wendie Malick, Sen. Russ Feingold
Aired 9 June 2010 • 30 min
99. Ralph Ziman, Andy Gray
Aired 11 June 2010 • 30 min
100. John Hofmeister, Tilda Swinton
Aired 14 June 2010 • 30 min
101. Tom Petty
Aired 15 June 2010 • 30 min
102. Kevin Eubanks, Isobel Coleman
Aired 16 June 2010 • 30 min
103. Phil Angelides, Brando Skyhorse
Aired 17 June 2010 • 30 min
105. Sebastian Mallaby, Herbie Hancock
Aired 21 June 2010 • 30 min
106. Peter Beinart, Molly Ringwald
Aired 22 June 2010 • 30 min
107. Louis Gossett Jr., Mayor Tony Kennon
Aired 23 June 2010 • 30 min
108. Spencer Wells, Bradley Whitford
Aired 24 June 2010 • 30 min
109. Helen Mirren, Taylor Hackford
Aired 25 June 2010 • 30 min
110. Tim Wise
Aired 28 June 2010 • 30 min
111. Bret Easton Ellis, Mindi Abair
Aired 29 June 2010 • 30 min
112. Tony Hsieh, Molly Shannon
Aired 30 June 2010 • 30 min
113. Laurence Fishburne
Aired 1 July 2010 • 30 min
114. Oliver Stone
Aired 2 July 2010 • 30 min
115. Dr. Ian Smith, Stanley Greene
Aired 5 July 2010 • 30 min
116. Nicholas Carr, Carolina Chocolate Drops
Aired 6 July 2010 • 30 min
117. Robert David Hall, Rep. Henry Waxman
Aired 7 July 2010 • 30 min
118. Joe Morton, Thomas Saenz
Aired 8 July 2010 • 30 min
120. Kelli Williams, John Yearwood
Aired 12 July 2010 • 30 min
121. Sean Payton
Aired 13 July 2010 • 30 min
122. LeVar Burton, Sam Nunn
Aired 14 July 2010 • 30 min
123. David Kilcullen, Paul Greenberg
Aired 15 July 2010 • 30 min
124. Venus Williams
Aired 16 July 2010 • 30 min
125. Oliver Stone
Aired 19 July 2010 • 30 min
126. Taylor Hackford, Helen Mirren
Aired 20 July 2010 • 30 min
127. Alice Walker, Otis Williams, Terry Weeks, the Temptations
Aired 21 July 2010 • 30 min
128. Tom Petty
Aired 22 July 2010 • 30 min
129. Mark Harmon, Harry Markopolos
Aired 23 July 2010 • 30 min
130. Michael Douglas
Aired 26 July 2010 • 30 min
131. Laurence Fishburne
Aired 27 July 2010 • 30 min
132. Patrick Stewart
Aired 28 July 2010 • 30 min
133. Pam Grier
Aired 29 July 2010 • 30 min
134. Richard Dreyfuss
Aired 30 July 2010 • 30 min
135. Melissa Etheridge, Dr. Vincent Tuohy
Aired 2 August 2010 • 30 min
136. Tony Hsieh, Molly Shannon
Aired 3 August 2010 • 30 min
137. Angelique Kidjo
Aired 4 August 2010 • 30 min
138. Garry Shandling
Aired 5 August 2010 • 30 min
139. Jakob Dylan, David Shenk
Aired 6 August 2010 • 30 min
140. Rebecca Skloot, Arturo Sandoval
Aired 9 August 2010 • 30 min
141. Ian McEwan, Timothy Olyphant
Aired 10 August 2010 • 30 min
142. Nicholas Carr, Carolina Chocolate Drops
Aired 11 August 2010 • 30 min
143. Tim Wise
Aired 12 August 2010 • 30 min
144. Kelis, Anthony Bourdain
Aired 13 August 2010 • 30 min
145. John Mellencamp
Aired 16 August 2010 • 30 min
146. Ken Follett, John Mellencamp
Aired 17 August 2010 • 30 min
147. Gov. Charlie Crist, John Mellencamp
Aired 18 August 2010 • 30 min
148. Max Lucado, John Mellencamp
Aired 19 August 2010 • 30 min
149. John Mellencamp
Aired 20 August 2010 • 30 min
150. Jeff Zeleny, Rufus Wainwright
Aired 23 August 2010 • 30 min
151. David Finkel, Jon Landau
Aired 24 August 2010 • 30 min
152. Alfonso Aguilar, Dave Walker
Aired 25 August 2010 • 30 min
153. Dr. Norman Francis
Aired 26 August 2010 • 30 min
154. Adbulrahman & Kathy Zeitoun
Aired 27 August 2010 • 30 min
155. Gen. Wesley Clark, Rob Reiner
Aired 30 August 2010 • 30 min
156. Norah Jones
Aired 31 August 2010 • 30 min
157. John Burns, Laura Lippman
Aired 1 September 2010 • 30 min
158. Dr. John, Rep. Kendrick Meek
Aired 2 September 2010 • 30 min
159. 2010 Emmy Winners
Aired 3 September 2010 • 30 min
160. Martin Landau, Susan Page
Aired 6 September 2010 • 30 min
161. Andrew Ross Sorkin, John Boyd Jr.
Aired 7 September 2010 • 30 min
162. Andre Agassi
Aired 8 September 2010 • 30 min
163. Sheryl Crow
Aired 9 September 2010 • 30 min
164. Donal Logue, Frank Luntz
Aired 10 September 2010 • 30 min
165. Sean Payton
Aired 13 September 2010 • 30 min
166. Bettye LaVette
Aired 14 September 2010 • 30 min
167. Venus Williams
Aired 15 September 2010 • 30 min
168. Max Lucado, John Mellencamp
Aired 16 September 2010 • 30 min
169. Norah Jones
Aired 17 September 2010 • 30 min
170. Sec. Kathleen Sebelius, Arianna Huffington
Aired 20 September 2010 • 30 min
171. Tim Robbins
Aired 21 September 2010 • 30 min
172. Philip Seymour Hoffman
Aired 22 September 2010 • 30 min
173. Hugh Laurie
Aired 23 September 2010 • 30 min
174. Ken Burns, Rebecca Traister
Aired 24 September 2010 • 30 min
175. Adam Levine, Harold Ford Jr.
Aired 27 September 2010 • 30 min
176. Geoffrey Canada, Davis Guggenheim
Aired 28 September 2010 • 30 min
178. Robert Reich, Seal
Aired 30 September 2010 • 30 min
179. Michael Hirsh, Nancy Brinker
Aired 1 October 2010 • 30 min
180. Amy Walter, Sam Rockwell
Aired 4 October 2010 • 30 min
181. Eugene Robinson, Jonathan Butler
Aired 5 October 2010 • 30 min
183. Jamie Lee Curtis
Aired 7 October 2010 • 30 min
184. Stephen Dubner, Edward Norton
Aired 8 October 2010 • 30 min
185. Serj Tankian, Adam Nagourney
Aired 11 October 2010 • 30 min
186. Ron Chernow, Liz Murray
Aired 12 October 2010 • 30 min
187. Condoleezza Rice
Aired 13 October 2010 • 30 min
188. Tony Danza
Aired 14 October 2010 • 30 min
189. Peter Singer, Neil Sedaka
Aired 15 October 2010 • 30 min
190. Olivia Newton-John, Steve Bellamy
Aired 18 October 2010 • 30 min
191. Eddie Levert, David Beckmann
Aired 19 October 2010 • 30 min
192. James Burrows
Aired 20 October 2010 • 30 min
193. Johnny Mathis
Aired 21 October 2010 • 30 min
194. Dave Koz, Toni Yancey
Aired 22 October 2010 • 30 min
195. Jimmy Carter
Aired 25 October 2010 • 30 min
196. Valerie Plame Wilson, Joseph Wilson
Aired 26 October 2010 • 30 min
197. Paul Reiser, Gov. Ed Rendell
Aired 27 October 2010 • 30 min
198. Ingrid Betancourt, Mayor Julian Castro
Aired 28 October 2010 • 30 min
199. Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey
Aired 29 October 2010 • 30 min
200. Ron Brownstein, Edwidge Danticat
Aired 1 November 2010 • 30 min
201. Phylicia Rashad
Aired 2 November 2010 • 30 min
202. Michael Duffy
Aired 3 November 2010 • 30 min
203. K'naan, Lucy Walker
Aired 4 November 2010 • 30 min
204. Huey Lewis, Ted Sorensen tribute
Aired 5 November 2010 • 30 min
205. Josh Groban, Joan Walsh
Aired 8 November 2010 • 30 min
206. Rev. Andrew Young, George Dohrmann
Aired 9 November 2010 • 30 min
207. Carey Mulligan, Paul Kane
Aired 10 November 2010 • 30 min
208. Matt Taibbi, Jeffrey Wright
Aired 11 November 2010 • 30 min
209. Rebecca Costa, Cassandra Wilson
Aired 12 November 2010 • 30 min
210. Iyanla VanZant
Aired 15 November 2010 • 30 min
211. Dennis Miller
Aired 16 November 2010 • 30 min
212. Rainn Wilson, Sen. Mark Warner
Aired 17 November 2010 • 30 min
213. Apolo Anton Ohno, Stacy Schiff
Aired 18 November 2010 • 30 min
214. Robert Duvall
Aired 19 November 2010 • 30 min
215. Tavis Smiley Season 7 Episode 215
Aired 24 November 2010 • 30 min
216. Ron Isley
Aired 29 November 2010 • 30 min
217. Natalie Cole, Darren Aronofsky
Aired 30 November 2010 • 30 min
218. Gary Hart, Sen. Dick Durbin
Aired 1 December 2010 • 30 min
219. Hilary Swank
Aired 2 December 2010 • 30 min
220. Quincy Jones
Aired 3 December 2010 • 30 min
221. Darren Aronofsky, Tom Brokaw
Aired 6 December 2010 • 30 min
222. Keri Hilson, Noah Feldman
Aired 7 December 2010 • 30 min
223. Sen. Bernie Sanders, Edmund Morris
Aired 8 December 2010 • 30 min
224. Dick Cavett, Clarence B. Jones
Aired 9 December 2010 • 30 min
225. Reza Aslan, Danny Boyle
Aired 10 December 2010 • 30 min
226. Gordon Brown
Aired 13 December 2010 • 30 min
227. Trent Reznor, Sally Hawkins
Aired 14 December 2010 • 30 min
228. Kevin Spacey, Amy Adams
Aired 15 December 2010 • 30 min
229. Stevie Wonder
Aired 16 December 2010 • 30 min
230. Stevie Wonder
Aired 17 December 2010 • 30 min
231. Robert Putnam, Nassim Taleb
Aired 20 December 2010 • 30 min
232. Patti Smith
Aired 21 December 2010 • 30 min
233. Wendell Potter, El DeBarge
Aired 22 December 2010 • 30 min
234. Rebecca Skloot, Isabel Wilkerson
Aired 23 December 2010 • 30 min
235. Lyle Lovett, Johnny Mathis
Aired 24 December 2010 • 30 min
236. Jeff Bridges
Aired 10 January 2011 • 30 min
237. Nichelle Nichols, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Aired 11 January 2011 • 30 min
238. Elizabeth Warren, Javier Bardem
Aired 12 January 2011 • 30 min
239. Roseanne Barr, Siddhartha Mukherjee
Aired 13 January 2011 • 30 min
240. Graham Nash, David Duchovny
Aired 14 January 2011 • 30 min
241. Clarence B. Jones, Stevie Wonder
Aired 17 January 2011 • 30 min
242. America's Next Chapter panel discussion, part 1
Aired 18 January 2011 • 30 min
243. America's Next Chapter panel discussion, part 2
Aired 19 January 2011 • 30 min
244. America's Next Chapter panel discussion, part 3
Aired 20 January 2011 • 30 min
245. Douglas Frantz, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Aired 21 January 2011 • 30 min
246. Bill Bradley, Douglas Brinkley
Aired 24 January 2011 • 30 min
247. Peter Bergen, Kim Edwards
Aired 25 January 2011 • 30 min
248. Paul Clemens, Charlie Crist
Aired 26 January 2011 • 30 min
249. Anthony Hopkins
Aired 27 January 2011 • 30 min
250. Tom Hooper
Aired 28 January 2011 • 30 min
251. Ed O'Neill, Meghan Linsey, Joshua Scott Jones
Aired 31 January 2011 • 30 min
252. Amos Lee, Rod Woodson
Aired 1 February 2011 • 30 min
253. Atul Gawande, Blythe Danner
Aired 2 February 2011 • 30 min
254. Gary Shapiro, David Pogue
Aired 3 February 2011 • 30 min
255. Vusi Mahlasela, Melissa Leo
Aired 4 February 2011 • 30 min
256. Jennifer Beals, Daniel Kurtzer
Aired 7 February 2011 • 30 min
257. Clive Davis, Lawrence Goldstone
Aired 8 February 2011 • 30 min
258. John Legend, Gideon Rachman
Aired 9 February 2011 • 30 min
259. Amy Chua, Amos Lee
Aired 10 February 2011 • 30 min
260. Randy Newman, Maria Bello
Aired 11 February 2011 • 30 min
261. Phil Angelides, Tarek Masoud
Aired 14 February 2011 • 30 min
262. Wynton Marsalis
Aired 15 February 2011 • 30 min
263. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Ne-Yo
Aired 16 February 2011 • 30 min
264. Jeff Henderson, Benjamin Barber
Aired 17 February 2011 • 30 min
265. Kenneth Cole, Esperanza Spalding
Aired 18 February 2011 • 30 min
266. Academy Award preview
Aired 21 February 2011 • 30 min
267. Forest Whitaker, Dambisa Moyo
Aired 22 February 2011 • 30 min
268. Misty Copeland, Sen. Michael Bennet
Aired 23 February 2011 • 30 min
269. Mike Huckabee, George Schlatter
Aired 24 February 2011 • 30 min
270. Annette Gordon-Reed, Kem
Aired 25 February 2011 • 30 min
271. Charles Ferguson, Mary Bell
Aired 28 February 2011 • 30 min
272. Smokey Robinson
Aired 1 March 2011 • 30 min
273. Bing West
Aired 2 March 2011 • 30 min
274. Anthony Mackie, Sherry Turkle
Aired 3 March 2011 • 30 min
275. Susan Jacoby
Aired 4 March 2011 • 30 min
276. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mansour El-Kikhia
Aired 7 March 2011 • 30 min
277. Mark Richard
Aired 8 March 2011 • 30 min
278. Lupe Fiasco
Aired 9 March 2011 • 30 min
279. Aaron Eckhart, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Aired 10 March 2011 • 30 min
280. David Brooks, Blair Underwood
Aired 11 March 2011 • 30 min
281. Sir Anthony Hopkins
Aired 14 March 2011 • 30 min
282. Wynton Marsalis
Aired 15 March 2011 • 30 min
283. Meghan Linsey, Joshua Scott Jones, Ed O'Neill
Aired 16 March 2011 • 30 min
284. Clive Davis, Lawrence Goldstone
Aired 17 March 2011 • 30 min
285. Smokey Robinson
Aired 18 March 2011 • 30 min
286. Hisham Matar
Aired 21 March 2011 • 30 min
287. Eve Ensler, Hitoshi Abe
Aired 22 March 2011 • 30 min
288. Biz Stone
Aired 23 March 2011 • 30 min
289. Julian Schnabel, Richard Haass
Aired 24 March 2011 • 30 min
290. T.C. Boyle, Anne Heche
Aired 25 March 2011 • 30 min
291. Gov. Mitch Daniels, Ted Danson
Aired 28 March 2011 • 30 min
292. Michelle Rhee
Aired 29 March 2011 • 30 min
293. Jeffrey Tambor
Aired 30 March 2011 • 30 min
294. Bethany Hamilton, AnnaSophia Robb
Aired 31 March 2011 • 30 min
295. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Aired 1 April 2011 • 30 min