2004-01-05 7.3/10
Overview
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.
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Seasons List
Season 6
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1. Kristin Scott Thomas, Don Guter
2. Stephen J. Cannell, Janis Kearney
3. Sen. Roland Burris, M.I.A.
4. Mickey Rourke
5. Danny Boyle
6. Dr. Martin Indyk, Viola Davis
7. Garry Shandling
8. Sean Penn
9. Danny Glover, Q-Tip
10. Ashford & Simpson
11. Suze Orman
12. Melissa Leo, Carlos Moore
13. Greg Mortenson, Sen. Robert Menendez
14. Graham Nash
15. Neil deGrasse Tyson, David Denby
16. Former President Jimmy Carter
17. Lamont Dozier, Raphael Saadiq
18. Dr. Palitha Kohona, Ravi Nessman
19. 2009 Oscar nominees
20. Joan Baez
21. T.C. Boyle
22. Esperanza Spalding, Adam Cohen
23. Bill Maher
24. Bryan Cranston, Becky Quick
25. Jeffrey Sachs, T.C. Boyle
26. Neko Case, Rep. Marsha Blackburn
27. Ian McShane, Thomas Ricks
28. Robert Gates
29. Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Noah Wyle
30. Felicity Huffman, Tony Dungy
31. Dan Baum, Bill Paxton
32. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, Bobby Womack
33. Timothy Hutton, Thomas P.M. Barnett
34. Tricia Rose, Zoe Heller
35. Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean
36. Simon Baker, Newt Gingrich
37. Dr. Keith Black, The-Dream
38. A tribute to John Hope Franklin
39. Carla Harris, Bobby Cannavale
40. Judith Jamison, Israel Houghton
41. Judith Jamison
42. Emmanuel Jal, Sen. Kent Conrad
43. Jaime Pressly, William Cohan
44. A tribute to Marvin Gaye
45. Carlos Santana
46. Israel Houghton, Seth Davis
47. Kevin Spacey
48. Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
49. Ray Liotta, Gary Locke
50. James Ingram, Nandan Nilekani
51. Mark Robert Waldman
52. Rep. Henry Waxman, Idris Elba
53. Abraham Verghese, Labelle
54. Anna Paquin, Robert Greenwald
55. Dara Torres, India.Arie
56. Sgt. Juan Luis Alcivar
57. Rep. Barney Frank, Hugh Masekela
58. Wangari Maathai
59. Leslie Gelb, David Brenner
60. Sgt. Juan Luis Alcivar, Anika Noni Rose
61. Tracey Ullman
62. Prince
63. Bria Valente, Prince
64. Kristin Chenoweth, Roger Wilkins
65. Joshua Cooper Ramo, Mike Krzyzewski
66. Mary Higgins Clark
67. Thomas Cahill, Ziggy Marley
68. Sam Haskell, Donald Faison
69. Darryl Strawberry
70. Dr. Walter Earl Fluker, Patti Davis
71. J.J. Abrams
72. Joe Queenan, Dr. William Baker
73. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Baron Davis, Stacy Peralta
74. Steve Earle, John Harwood
75. Maxwell, Michael Fauntroy
76. Steve Zahn, Brendan Gleeson
77. Earth, Wind & Fire, Richard Haass
78. Steve Martin
79. Reza Aslan, Common
80. Ed Asner
81. Bill Russell
82. Mandy Moore, Cesar Perales
83. Norman Lear
84. Edie Falco, Paul Ingrassia
85. Vernon Jordan
86. Nia Vardalos, Azadeh Moaveni
87. Kevin Bacon, Dave Bing
88. Nanci Griffith, Mary Frances Berry
89. Joe Scarborough, Sharon Jones
90. Larry King
91. Colson Whitehead, Della Reese
92. Karen Bass, Mary McCormack
93. Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Marina Nemat
94. Chris Noth, Ali Sethi
95. Roseanne Barr
96. Luma Mufleh, Rick Steves
97. Trita Parsi, Hilda Solis
98. Francis Ford Coppola
99. Francis Ford Coppola, Femi Kuti
100. Mary Mary
101. Katty Kay, Paul Giamatti
102. A tribute to Michael Jackson, Berry Gordy
103. Michael Eric Dyson, Dr. Cornel West
104. Shohreh Aghdashloo, Roger Cohen
105. Bill Pullman, Debo Adegbile
106. Jane Mayer, Malina Saval
107. Jeremy Renner, David Ignatius
108. Berry Gordy, the Homemade Jamz Blues Band
109. Lisa Kudrow, Mayor James Young
110. Peter Peterson, Dr. Michael Roizen
111. Dr. Olufunmilayo Olopade, Jessica Queller, Diahann Carroll
112. Jay Leno
113. Mark Johnson, Jay Leno
114. Corneille, Rep. Baron Hill
115. Biz Stone, Gloria Reuben
116. Davis Guggenheim, David Faber
117. Dylan McDermott, Warren Moon
118. Smokey Robinson
119. Howard Dean, a tribute to Don Hewitt
120. Arne Duncan, Benjamin Barber
121. Alexis Bledel, Stan Brock
122. Quentin Tarantino
123. Reba McEntire, Dean Koontz
124. Rep. John Lewis, Vernon Jordan
125. Ron Williams, Eric Sundquist
126. Josh Charles, Douglas Brinkley
127. Doug Pray, Robert Baer
128. Alex S. Jones, Mekhi Phifer
129. Ledisi, Peter Baker
130. George Foreman, Fred Kaplan
131. Terence Blanchard
132. Smokey Robinson
133. Ken Burns
134. Ted Kennedy Jr.
135. R. Dwayne Betts
136. Jenna Elfman, Matthew Weiner
137. Herb Alpert, Lani Hall
138. David Duchovny, Rep. Mike Pence
139. Dr. Yvonne Sanders-Butler, Michael Strahan, Daryl Mitchell
140. Ken Burns
141. Michael Moore
142. Tom Ridge, Adam Arkin
143. Rodrigo y Gabriela, James Brown
144. Max Blumenthal, Michael C. Hall
145. Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., George Benson
146. Dr. Cornel West
147. Karen Armstrong, Nick Hornby
148. Michael Sheen, Aaron S. Williams
149. James Ellroy, Sen. Bill Nelson
150. Pete Escovedo, Sheila E.
151. Dr. Terrence Roberts, Joshua Bell
152. Amb. Michael Oren, Michael Chabon
153. Michelle Monaghan, Vali Nasr
154. Rep. Ron Paul, Bob Herbert
155. Anthony Edwards, The RZA
156. Andy Williams
157. Malcolm Gladwell, Robin D.G. Kelley
158. Haleh Esfandiari, Nicholas Kristof
159. Dr. Ruth Simmons
160. Marcus Roberts, Edward Norton
161. Kris Kristofferson
162. Nomi Prins, the Swell Season
163. Lee Eisenberg, Susie Essman
164. Mitch Albom, Chiwetel Ejiofor
165. Andrew Ross Sorkin, Lang Lang
166. Max Cleland, Amerie
167. Bruce Feiler
168. Lance Reddick, Jason Zweig
169. Dan Senor, Gail Collins
170. Harry Connick Jr.
171. Paul Mooney
172. Andre Agassi
173. 50 Cent
174. Dave Matthews
175. Viggo Mortensen
176. Ali Eteraz, Angie Stone
177. Amy Goodman, Jason Schwartzman
178. Malcolm Gladwell, Robin D.G. Kelley
179. Dr. Ruth Simmons
180. Ann Louise Bardach, Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.
181. Yo-Yo Ma
182. Gov. David Paterson, Fred Willard
183. Morgan Freeman
184. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeff Bridges, Sen. Bernie Sanders
185. Boyz II Men, Ann Louise Bardach
186. Gov. Ed Rendell, Shirley Caesar
187. James Cameron
188. Kenneth Wade, James Bradley
189. Mary J. Blige
190. Youth Leadership Panel with Eduardo Campos, Kate Sim, Cortlan Wickliff, Kimberly Anyadike, Galen Dodd & Rocio Ortega
191. Alan Alda, Tobey Maguire
192. Sandra Bullock
193. Joe Torre
194. Rosanne Cash
195. Bob Newhart, Dan Balz
196. Nicole Lee, Jim Wallis
197. Jason Reitman, Walter Isaacson
198. Marion Cotillard, Robert Lacey
199. Keri Russell, Paul Ingrassia
Season 7
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1. Nicole Lee, Jim Wallis
2. Jason Reitman, Walter Isaacson
3. Marion Cotillard, Robert Lacey
4. Keri Russell, Paul Ingrassia
5. Newt Gingrich, Raj Patel
6. Peter Fonda, David Sanger
7. Corinne Bailey Rae
8. Dr. James Forbes
9. Eugene Jarecki, Max Siegel
10. Ed O'Neill, John Yoo
11. Wyclef Jean, Trey Songz
12. Pete Docter, Sen. John Cornyn
13. Bill Withers
14. Richard Schiff, Robert Kaiser
15. James Horner, Thomas Ricks
16. Garry Marshall, Joel Kotkin
17. Daniel Pink, Louie Psihoyos
18. Myrlie Evers-Williams
19. Tracy Morgan, Fred Swaniker
20. Stephen Dubner, Neil Irwin
21. Charles Blow
22. William Hurt
23. Drew Carey, Michael Duffy
24. Mark Ruffalo, Gabriel Thompson
25. Sen. Sherrod Brown, Sen. Evan Bayh
26. Van Jones
27. Angelique Kidjo
28. Ethan Hawke, Phyllis Bennis
29. Oscar Preview
30. Sandra Bullock
31. James Cameron
32. Morgan Freeman
33. Quentin Tarantino
34. Michael Moore
35. Tom Burrell
36. Andy Garcia, Rep. Tom Price
37. Queen Latifah, Chang-rae Lee
38. Michelle Alexander, Michael Sheen
39. Mario Van Peebles, Rep. John Dingell
40. Shankar Vedantam
41. Dee Dee Bridgewater
42. Steven Gray, Holly Hunter
43. Pierce Brosnan
44. Marvin Sapp, David Albright
45. Richard Stengel, Elizabeth Mitchell
46. Anna Torv, Marc Morial
47. Jakob Dylan, David Shenk
48. Maria Bartiromo, Bryan Cranston
49. David Simon, Rep. Sandy Levin
50. Benjamin Barber
51. Father Greg Boyle, Kim Raver
52. Annie Leonard, David Frum
53. Mark Harmon, Harry Markopolos
54. Ian McEwan, Timothy Olyphant
55. Diane Ravitch, Rodney & Holly Robinson Peete
56. Anne Lamott, Elizabeth Warren
57. Chris Rock
58. Andie MacDowell, Raheem DeVaughn
59. Raquel Welch
60. Jerry Weintraub
61. Lisa Kudrow, Steven Solomon
62. Sonia Sanchez, Mitch Landrieu
63. Judy Collins, Richard Clarke
64. Carol Burnett
65. Gov. Bill Richardson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
66. Dana Delaney, Ceci Connolly
67. Richard Dreyfuss
68. Mavis Leno, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
69. Nouriel Roubini, Isabel Allende
70. Pam Grier
71. Rebecca Skloot, Arturo Sandoval
72. Damon Wayans, Chuck Palahniuk
73. Ben Kingsley, Trombone Shorty
74. Garry Shandling
75. Bruce Feiler, Isobel Coleman
76. Michael Douglas
77. Dennis Quaid, Damian Marley with Nas
78. David Gregory, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
79. Allison Moorer, Robert Kuttner
80. Wes Moore, Alfredo Gutierrez
81. Sebastian Junger, Chuck Palahniuk
82. Rep. Joe Sestak
83. Diane Warren, Michael Hiltzik
84. Wendie Malick, Sen. Russ Feingold
85. Ralph Ziman, Andy Gray
86. John Hofmeister, Tilda Swinton
87. Tom Petty
88. Kevin Eubanks, Isobel Coleman
89. Phil Angelides, Brando Skyhorse
90. Sebastian Mallaby, Herbie Hancock
91. Peter Beinart, Molly Ringwald
92. Louis Gossett Jr., Mayor Tony Kennon
93. Spencer Wells, Bradley Whitford
94. Helen Mirren, Taylor Hackford
95. Tim Wise
96. Bret Easton Ellis, Mindi Abair
97. Tony Hsieh, Molly Shannon
98. Laurence Fishburne
99. Oliver Stone
100. Dr. Ian Smith, Stanley Greene
101. Nicholas Carr, Carolina Chocolate Drops
102. Robert David Hall, Rep. Henry Waxman
103. Joe Morton, Thomas Saenz
104. Kelli Williams, John Yearwood
105. Sean Payton
106. LeVar Burton, Sam Nunn
107. David Kilcullen, Paul Greenberg
108. Venus Williams
109. Oliver Stone
110. Taylor Hackford, Helen Mirren
111. Alice Walker, Otis Williams, Terry Weeks, the Temptations
112. Tom Petty
113. Mark Harmon, Harry Markopolos
114. Michael Douglas
115. Laurence Fishburne
116. Patrick Stewart
117. Pam Grier
118. Richard Dreyfuss
119. Melissa Etheridge, Dr. Vincent Tuohy
120. Tony Hsieh, Molly Shannon
121. Angelique Kidjo
122. Garry Shandling
123. Jakob Dylan, David Shenk
124. Rebecca Skloot, Arturo Sandoval
125. Ian McEwan, Timothy Olyphant
126. Nicholas Carr, Carolina Chocolate Drops
127. Tim Wise
128. Kelis, Anthony Bourdain
129. John Mellencamp
130. Ken Follett, John Mellencamp
131. Gov. Charlie Crist, John Mellencamp
132. Max Lucado, John Mellencamp
133. John Mellencamp
134. Jeff Zeleny, Rufus Wainwright
135. David Finkel, Jon Landau
136. Alfonso Aguilar, Dave Walker
137. Dr. Norman Francis
138. Adbulrahman & Kathy Zeitoun
139. Gen. Wesley Clark, Rob Reiner
140. Norah Jones
141. John Burns, Laura Lippman
142. Dr. John, Rep. Kendrick Meek
143. 2010 Emmy Winners
144. Martin Landau, Susan Page
145. Andrew Ross Sorkin, John Boyd Jr.
146. Andre Agassi
147. Sheryl Crow
148. Donal Logue, Frank Luntz
149. Sean Payton
150. Bettye LaVette
151. Venus Williams
152. Max Lucado, John Mellencamp
153. Norah Jones
154. Sec. Kathleen Sebelius, Arianna Huffington
155. Tim Robbins
156. Philip Seymour Hoffman
157. Hugh Laurie
158. Ken Burns, Rebecca Traister
159. Adam Levine, Harold Ford Jr.
160. Geoffrey Canada, Davis Guggenheim
161. Robert Reich, Seal
162. Michael Hirsh, Nancy Brinker
163. Amy Walter, Sam Rockwell
164. Eugene Robinson, Jonathan Butler
165. Jamie Lee Curtis
166. Stephen Dubner, Edward Norton
167. Serj Tankian, Adam Nagourney
168. Ron Chernow, Liz Murray
169. Condoleezza Rice
170. Tony Danza
171. Peter Singer, Neil Sedaka
172. Olivia Newton-John, Steve Bellamy
173. Eddie Levert, David Beckmann
174. James Burrows
175. Johnny Mathis
176. Dave Koz, Toni Yancey
177. Jimmy Carter
178. Valerie Plame Wilson, Joseph Wilson
179. Paul Reiser, Gov. Ed Rendell
180. Ingrid Betancourt, Mayor Julian Castro
181. Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey
182. Ron Brownstein, Edwidge Danticat
183. Phylicia Rashad
184. Michael Duffy
185. K'naan, Lucy Walker
186. Huey Lewis, Ted Sorensen tribute
187. Josh Groban, Joan Walsh
188. Rev. Andrew Young, George Dohrmann
189. Carey Mulligan, Paul Kane
190. Matt Taibbi, Jeffrey Wright
191. Rebecca Costa, Cassandra Wilson
192. Iyanla VanZant
193. Dennis Miller
194. Rainn Wilson, Sen. Mark Warner
195. Apolo Anton Ohno, Stacy Schiff
196. Robert Duvall
197. Tavis Smiley Season 7 Episode 215
198. Ron Isley
199. Natalie Cole, Darren Aronofsky
200. Gary Hart, Sen. Dick Durbin
201. Hilary Swank
202. Quincy Jones
203. Darren Aronofsky, Tom Brokaw
204. Keri Hilson, Noah Feldman
205. Sen. Bernie Sanders, Edmund Morris
206. Dick Cavett, Clarence B. Jones
207. Reza Aslan, Danny Boyle
208. Gordon Brown
209. Trent Reznor, Sally Hawkins
210. Kevin Spacey, Amy Adams
211. Stevie Wonder
212. Stevie Wonder
213. Robert Putnam, Nassim Taleb
214. Patti Smith
215. Wendell Potter, El DeBarge
216. Rebecca Skloot, Isabel Wilkerson
217. Lyle Lovett, Johnny Mathis
218. Jeff Bridges
219. Nichelle Nichols, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
220. Elizabeth Warren, Javier Bardem
221. Roseanne Barr, Siddhartha Mukherjee
222. Graham Nash, David Duchovny
223. Clarence B. Jones, Stevie Wonder
224. America's Next Chapter panel discussion, part 1
225. America's Next Chapter panel discussion, part 2
226. America's Next Chapter panel discussion, part 3
227. Douglas Frantz, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
228. Bill Bradley, Douglas Brinkley
229. Peter Bergen, Kim Edwards
230. Paul Clemens, Charlie Crist
231. Anthony Hopkins
232. Tom Hooper
233. Ed O'Neill, Meghan Linsey, Joshua Scott Jones
234. Amos Lee, Rod Woodson
235. Atul Gawande, Blythe Danner
236. Gary Shapiro, David Pogue
237. Vusi Mahlasela, Melissa Leo
238. Jennifer Beals, Daniel Kurtzer
239. Clive Davis, Lawrence Goldstone
240. John Legend, Gideon Rachman
241. Amy Chua, Amos Lee
242. Randy Newman, Maria Bello
243. Phil Angelides, Tarek Masoud
244. Wynton Marsalis
245. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Ne-Yo
246. Jeff Henderson, Benjamin Barber
247. Kenneth Cole, Esperanza Spalding
248. Academy Award preview
249. Forest Whitaker, Dambisa Moyo
250. Misty Copeland, Sen. Michael Bennet
251. Mike Huckabee, George Schlatter
252. Annette Gordon-Reed, Kem
253. Charles Ferguson, Mary Bell
254. Smokey Robinson
255. Bing West
256. Anthony Mackie, Sherry Turkle
257. Susan Jacoby
258. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mansour El-Kikhia
259. Mark Richard
260. Lupe Fiasco
261. Aaron Eckhart, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
262. David Brooks, Blair Underwood
263. Sir Anthony Hopkins
264. Wynton Marsalis
265. Meghan Linsey, Joshua Scott Jones, Ed O'Neill
266. Clive Davis, Lawrence Goldstone
267. Smokey Robinson
268. Hisham Matar
269. Eve Ensler, Hitoshi Abe
270. Biz Stone
271. Julian Schnabel, Richard Haass
272. T.C. Boyle, Anne Heche
273. Gov. Mitch Daniels, Ted Danson
274. Michelle Rhee
275. Jeffrey Tambor
276. Bethany Hamilton, AnnaSophia Robb
277. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Season 11
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1. Episode 1
2. Episode 2
3. Episode 3
4. Episode 4
5. Episode 5
6. Episode 6
7. Episode 7
8. Episode 8
9. Episode 9
10. Episode 10
11. Episode 11
12. Episode 12
13. Episode 13
14. Episode 14
15. Episode 15
16. Episode 16
17. Episode 17
18. Episode 18
19. Episode 19
20. Episode 20
21. Episode 21
22. Episode 22
23. Episode 23
24. Episode 24
25. Episode 25
26. Episode 26
27. Episode 27
28. Episode 28
29. Episode 29
30. Episode 30
31. Episode 31
32. Episode 32
33. Episode 33
34. Episode 34
35. Episode 35
36. Episode 36
37. Episode 37
38. Episode 38
39. Episode 39
40. Episode 40
41. Episode 41
42. Episode 42
43. Episode 43
44. Episode 44
45. Episode 45
46. Episode 46
47. Episode 47
48. Episode 48
49. Episode 49
50. Episode 50
51. Episode 51
52. Episode 52
53. Episode 53
54. Episode 54
55. Episode 55
56. Episode 56
57. Episode 57
58. Episode 58
59. Episode 59
60. Episode 60
61. Episode 61
62. Episode 62
63. Episode 63
64. Episode 64
65. Episode 65
66. Episode 66
67. Episode 67
68. Episode 68
69. Episode 69
70. Episode 70
71. Episode 71
72. Episode 72
73. Episode 73
74. Episode 74
75. Episode 75
76. Episode 76
77. Episode 77
78. Episode 78
79. Episode 79
80. Episode 80
81. Episode 81
82. Episode 82
83. Episode 83
84. Episode 85
85. Episode 86
86. Episode 88
87. Episode 89
88. Episode 90
89. Episode 91
90. Episode 92
91. Episode 93
92. Episode 94
93. Episode 95
94. Episode 96
95. Episode 97
96. Episode 98
97. Episode 99
98. Episode 100
99. Episode 101
100. Episode 102
101. Episode 103
102. Episode 104
103. Episode 105
104. Episode 106
105. Episode 107
106. Episode 108
107. Episode 109
108. Episode 110
109. Episode 111
110. Episode 112
111. Episode 113
112. Episode 114
113. Episode 115
114. Episode 116
115. Episode 117
116. Episode 118
117. Episode 119
118. Episode 120
119. Episode 121
120. Episode 122
121. Episode 123
122. Episode 124
123. Episode 125
124. Episode 126
125. Episode 127
126. Episode 128
127. Episode 129
128. Episode 131
129. Episode 132