Overview of 'Tavis Smiley' Season 11

Tavis Smiley (2004)

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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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Tavis Smiley

Release Date: 2004-01-05
Seasons: 6 7 11

7.3/10

Country: US
Language: English
Runtime: 30

Season 11 Episode List

Episode 1 - Episode 1
Release Date: 2013-12-23
Kenny Loggins.
Episode 2 - Episode 2
Release Date: 2013-12-24
Joshua Bell.
Episode 3 - Episode 3
Release Date: 2014-01-09
Dr. Benjamin Barber; Mary McDonnell.
Episode 4 - Episode 4
Release Date: 2014-01-13
Sociologist Michael Kimmel ("Angry White Men").
Episode 5 - Episode 5
Release Date: 2014-01-14
Barkhad Abdi; Lupita Nyong'o.
Episode 6 - Episode 6
Release Date: 2014-01-15
Bruce Dern.
Episode 7 - Episode 7
Release Date: 2014-01-16
Don Cheadle.
Episode 8 - Episode 8
Release Date: 2014-01-17
Kenneth Branagh.
Episode 9 - Episode 9
Release Date: 2014-01-20
Part 1 of 2. "MLK: A Call to Conscience."
Episode 10 - Episode 10
Release Date: 2014-01-21
Conclusion. "MLK: A Call to Conscience."
Episode 11 - Episode 11
Release Date: 2014-01-22
Julie Delpy; Robert Hilburn.
Episode 12 - Episode 12
Release Date: 2014-01-23
Joseph Gordon-Levitt; Gloria Gaynor.
Episode 13 - Episode 13
Release Date: 2014-01-24
Itzhak Perlman.
Episode 14 - Episode 14
Release Date: 2014-01-27
L.A. mayor Eric Garcetti; Chideo founder Todd Wagner.
Episode 15 - Episode 15
Release Date: 2014-01-28
Chita Rivera.
Episode 16 - Episode 16
Release Date: 2014-01-29
Teller; violinist Hilary Hahn.
Episode 17 - Episode 17
Release Date: 2014-01-30
Writer Samuel G. Freedman and former NFL quarterback James "Shack" Harris.
Episode 18 - Episode 18
Release Date: 2014-01-31
Tavis talks with Grammy Award–winning Beninoise singer-songwriter and activist Angélique Kidjo.
Episode 19 - Episode 19
Release Date: 2014-02-03
Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014) is remembered.
Episode 20 - Episode 20
Release Date: 2014-02-04
International law expert Edwin Smith (USC); Béla Fleck.
Episode 21 - Episode 21
Release Date: 2014-02-05
Dr. Alvaro Huerta; Shelby Lynne.
Episode 22 - Episode 22
Release Date: 2014-02-06
Part 1 of 2 with Darlene Love and Merry Clayton.
Episode 23 - Episode 23
Release Date: 2014-02-07
Conclusion. Darlene Love and Merry Clayton.
Episode 24 - Episode 24
Release Date: 2014-02-10
Jamie Lee Curtis.
Episode 25 - Episode 25
Release Date: 2014-02-11
Disney animator Floyd Norman.
Episode 26 - Episode 26
Release Date: 2014-02-12
David Hyde Pierce.
Episode 27 - Episode 27
Release Date: 2014-02-13
Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Episode 28 - Episode 28
Release Date: 2014-02-14
Tavis talks with Joel Kinnaman and Joy Bryant.
Episode 29 - Episode 29
Release Date: 2014-02-17
Tavis talks with P.J. O'Rourke and Amel Larrieux.
Episode 30 - Episode 30
Release Date: 2014-02-18
Will Forte; Earl Klugh.
Episode 31 - Episode 31
Release Date: 2014-02-19
Robert Greenwald; Dianne Reeves.
Episode 32 - Episode 32
Release Date: 2014-02-20
Toni Braxton and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds.
Episode 33 - Episode 33
Release Date: 2014-02-21
Sam Polk (founder, Groceryships); Rhea Perlman.
Episode 34 - Episode 34
Release Date: 2014-02-24
USC professor Robert English on the crisis in Ukraine. Also: actor and writer Steve Coogan.
Episode 35 - Episode 35
Release Date: 2014-02-25
Harry Lennix.
Episode 36 - Episode 36
Release Date: 2014-02-26
Physician David B. Agus; actress Julianne Nicholson.
Episode 37 - Episode 37
Release Date: 2014-02-27
Forest Whitaker.
Episode 38 - Episode 38
Release Date: 2014-02-28
A 2014 Academy Awards preview, featuring Oscar-nominated guests.
Episode 39 - Episode 39
Release Date: 2014-03-03
Alicia Keys; Herb Alpert.
Episode 40 - Episode 40
Release Date: 2014-03-04
Esa-Pekka Salonen; Wayne Shorter.
Episode 41 - Episode 41
Release Date: 2014-03-05
Gregory Porter; Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite.
Episode 42 - Episode 42
Release Date: 2014-03-06
Emeli Sandé; Robert Randolph.
Episode 43 - Episode 43
Release Date: 2014-03-07
Tavis talks with Lawrence Brownlee and Shemekia Copeland.
Episode 44 - Episode 44
Release Date: 2014-03-10
Scott Adams; Edwidge Danticat.
Episode 45 - Episode 45
Release Date: 2014-03-11
Tavis talks with Eric Schlosser and Brian Jay Jones.
Episode 46 - Episode 46
Release Date: 2014-03-12
Tavis talks with T.C. Boyle and Rick Najera.
Episode 47 - Episode 47
Release Date: 2014-03-13
M. Night Shyamalan; Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Episode 48 - Episode 48
Release Date: 2014-03-14
Teller; Robert Hilburn.
Episode 49 - Episode 49
Release Date: 2014-03-17
The allegation that the CIA searched Senate computers is discussed. Also: Marlee Matlin.
Episode 50 - Episode 50
Release Date: 2014-03-18
Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman ("Harmony").
Episode 51 - Episode 51
Release Date: 2014-03-19
Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert ("The Sixth Extinction"); comedian Greg Edwards.
Episode 52 - Episode 52
Release Date: 2014-03-20
Author Peniel E. Joseph ("Stokely: A Life"); Martina McBride.
Episode 53 - Episode 53
Release Date: 2014-03-21
Tim Conway.
Episode 54 - Episode 54
Release Date: 2014-03-24
Bruce Jones (Brookings Institution); Dulé Hill and James Roday ("Pysch").
Episode 55 - Episode 55
Release Date: 2014-03-25
Robert Reich; Benmont Tench.
Episode 56 - Episode 56
Release Date: 2014-03-26
Errol Morris; Ledisi.
Episode 57 - Episode 57
Release Date: 2014-03-27
Author Shyima Hall ("Hidden Girl").
Episode 58 - Episode 58
Release Date: 2014-03-28
Author Miriam Pawel ("The Crusades of Cesar Chavez"); Stanley Jordan.
Episode 59 - Episode 59
Release Date: 2014-03-31
Immigration issues are discussed with undocumented activist Erika Andiola and Marielena Hincapié? (National Immigration Law Center). Also: Nathan East.
Episode 60 - Episode 60
Release Date: 2014-03-31
Author Clay Risen ("The Bill of the Century").
Episode 61 - Episode 61
Release Date: 2014-04-01
Author Saladin Ambar ("Malcolm X at Oxford Union"); Zucchero Fornaciari.
Episode 62 - Episode 62
Release Date: 2014-04-03
The real-life hero of Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina, reflects on his experience, 20 years ago, during one of the worst mass slaughters in modern history.
Episode 63 - Episode 63
Release Date: 2014-04-07
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (Council on Foreign Relations); hip-hop music artist Christylez Bacon.
Episode 64 - Episode 64
Release Date: 2014-04-08
David Crosby.
Episode 65 - Episode 65
Release Date: 2014-04-09
Frank Langella.
Episode 66 - Episode 66
Release Date: 2014-04-10
Sociologist Katherine S. Newman ("The Accordion Family"); composer Hafez Nazeri.
Episode 67 - Episode 67
Release Date: 2014-04-11
Stewart Copeland.
Episode 68 - Episode 68
Release Date: 2014-04-14
Ken Burns.
Episode 69 - Episode 69
Release Date: 2014-04-15
Rosanne Cash.
Episode 70 - Episode 70
Release Date: 2014-04-16
Ed Catmull (Disney and Pixar Animation Studios); Tatiana Maslany.
Episode 71 - Episode 71
Release Date: 2014-04-17
Jackie Collins.
Episode 72 - Episode 72
Release Date: 2014-04-18
Environmental scientist Ken Caldeira (Stanford); author Philip Yancey ("The Jesus I Never Knew").
Episode 73 - Episode 73
Release Date: 2014-04-21
The crisis in Ukraine is discussed with Robert English (USC School of International Relations). Also: Daniel Beaty.
Episode 74 - Episode 74
Release Date: 2014-04-22
Tavis talks with Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Ian Somerhalder.
Episode 75 - Episode 75
Release Date: 2014-04-23
Nas.
Episode 76 - Episode 76
Release Date: 2014-04-24
Author Barbara Ehrenreich ("Living With a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth About Everything"}.
Episode 77 - Episode 77
Release Date: 2014-04-25
Economist William Easterly; L.A. Opera music director James Conlon.
Episode 78 - Episode 78
Release Date: 2014-04-28
Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Episode 79 - Episode 79
Release Date: 2014-04-29
Larry King.
Episode 80 - Episode 80
Release Date: 2014-04-30
Robin Roberts.
Episode 81 - Episode 81
Release Date: 2014-05-01
Author Sylvia Longmire ("Border Insecurity"); Harry Hamlin.
Episode 82 - Episode 82
Release Date: 2014-05-02
Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong.
Episode 83 - Episode 83
Release Date: 2014-05-05
Sen. Bernie Sanders (Ind.-Vt.); Carla Bruni.
Episode 85 - Episode 85
Release Date: 2014-05-07
Vermont governor Peter Shumlin; Ken Cook (Environmental Working Group).
Episode 86 - Episode 86
Release Date: 2014-05-08
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.); Hugh Dancy.
Episode 88 - Episode 88
Release Date: 2014-05-12
Ralph Nader; John Slattery.
Episode 89 - Episode 89
Release Date: 2014-05-13
Journalist Jonathan M. Katz ("The Big Truck That Went By"); Connie Britton.
Episode 90 - Episode 90
Release Date: 2014-05-14
Barbara Walters; Maurice Hines.
Episode 91 - Episode 91
Release Date: 2014-05-15
Part 1 of 2. Mel Brooks.
Episode 92 - Episode 92
Release Date: 2014-05-16
Conclusion. Mel Brooks.
Episode 93 - Episode 93
Release Date: 2014-05-19
The abducted girls in Nigeria are discussed with journalist Omoyele Sowore and Amber Khan (Women for Women International).
Episode 94 - Episode 94
Release Date: 2014-05-20
Renée Fleming.
Episode 95 - Episode 95
Release Date: 2014-05-21
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.); Jim Parsons.
Episode 96 - Episode 96
Release Date: 2014-05-22
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.); Jon Favreau.
Episode 97 - Episode 97
Release Date: 2014-05-23
"Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner.
Episode 98 - Episode 98
Release Date: 2014-05-26
David Goodman (Andrew Goodman Foundation).
Episode 99 - Episode 99
Release Date: 2014-05-27
Author Nell Bernstein ("Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison"); Ed O'Neill.
Episode 100 - Episode 100
Release Date: 2014-05-28
A tribute to Maya Angelou (1928-2014). Also: Ziggy Marley.
Episode 101 - Episode 101
Release Date: 2014-05-29
A tribute to Maya Angelou (1928-2014).
Episode 102 - Episode 102
Release Date: 2014-05-30
Arianna Huffington; Brian Culbertson.
Episode 103 - Episode 103
Release Date: 2014-06-02
Elizabeth Kolbert ("The Sixth Extinction"); Daniel Beaty.
Episode 104 - Episode 104
Release Date: 2014-06-03
Ed Catmull (Pixar Animation Studios); Marlee Matlin.
Episode 105 - Episode 105
Release Date: 2014-06-04
Ken Cook (Environmental Working Group); Earl Klugh.
Episode 106 - Episode 106
Release Date: 2014-06-05
Peniel E. Joseph ("Stokely: A Life"); Tatiana Maslany.
Episode 107 - Episode 107
Release Date: 2014-06-06
James Conlon; Ledisi.
Episode 108 - Episode 108
Release Date: 2014-06-09
Immigration reform is discussed with Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Cal.) and Jersey Vargas, a 10-year-old California girl whose father faces deportation.
Episode 109 - Episode 109
Release Date: 2014-06-10
Allison Janney.
Episode 110 - Episode 110
Release Date: 2014-06-11
Dr. David B. Agus; Clark Gregg.
Episode 111 - Episode 111
Release Date: 2014-06-12
A tribute to Ruby Dee (1922-2014).
Episode 112 - Episode 112
Release Date: 2014-06-13
Rob and Carl Reiner.
Episode 113 - Episode 113
Release Date: 2014-06-16
Former senator Joseph Lieberman; Toni Braxton.
Episode 114 - Episode 114
Release Date: 2014-06-17
Tavis talks with Sebastian Junger and Carol Leifer.
Episode 115 - Episode 115
Release Date: 2014-06-18
Author Nomi Prins ("All the Presidents' Bankers"); Noah Wyle.
Episode 116 - Episode 116
Release Date: 2014-06-19
Educator-civil rights activist Bob Moses; documentarian Stanley Nelson ("Freedom Summer").
Episode 117 - Episode 117
Release Date: 2014-06-20
One of the most famous chefs in the world, whose innovations have come to define modern American cooking, offers tips for losing weight and feeling energetic.
Episode 118 - Episode 118
Release Date: 2014-06-23
Sociologist Jennifer Lee (UC Irvine); John Lloyd Young.
Episode 119 - Episode 119
Release Date: 2014-06-24
Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers.
Episode 120 - Episode 120
Release Date: 2014-06-25
C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb.
Episode 121 - Episode 121
Release Date: 2014-06-26
Paul Rieckhoff (Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America); bluesman Robert Cray.
Episode 122 - Episode 122
Release Date: 2014-06-27
Dancer Charles "Lil Buck" Riley.
Episode 123 - Episode 123
Release Date: 2014-06-30
Tavis talks with Ron Capps, founder of the Veterans Writing Project, and with 10-time Grammy-winning trumpet legend Arturo Sandoval.
Episode 124 - Episode 124
Release Date: 2014-07-01
Tavis talks with six-time Emmy-nominated British actor and musician Hugh Laurie.
Episode 125 - Episode 125
Release Date: 2014-07-02
Tavis talks with best-selling authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner and with an original Dreamgirl, Jennifer Holliday.
Episode 126 - Episode 126
Release Date: 2014-07-03
Tavis talks with former astronaut Buzz Aldrin and with Chaz Ebert about the documentary on her late husband, entitled Life Itself.
Episode 127 - Episode 127
Release Date: 2014-07-04
Tavis talks with Michael Levi and Elizabeth Economy about their text on China and with award-winning singer-songwriter Yuna.
Episode 128 - Episode 128
Release Date: 2014-07-07
Law professor Melissa Murray; Jason Biggs.
Episode 129 - Episode 129
Release Date: 2014-07-08
Beau Bridges.
Episode 131 - Episode 131
Release Date: 2014-07-10
Journalist Alex Tizon ("Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self"); Sister Simone Campbell, the executive director of NETWORK.
Episode 132 - Episode 132
Release Date: 2014-07-11
Neurologist Stanley B. Prusiner ("Madness and Memory"); Demián Bichir.