Tavis Smiley
Tavis Smiley: Season 11

Air Date

December 23, 2013

Episodes

129 episodes

Tavis Smiley

Season 11

Episodes

1. Episode 1

December 23, 2013
30 min

Kenny Loggins.

2. Episode 2

December 24, 2013
30 min

Joshua Bell.

3. Episode 3

January 9, 2014
30 min

Dr. Benjamin Barber; Mary McDonnell.

4. Episode 4

January 13, 2014
30 min

Sociologist Michael Kimmel ("Angry White Men").

5. Episode 5

January 14, 2014
30 min

Barkhad Abdi; Lupita Nyong'o.

6. Episode 6

January 15, 2014
30 min

Bruce Dern.

7. Episode 7

January 16, 2014
30 min

Don Cheadle.

8. Episode 8

January 17, 2014
30 min

Kenneth Branagh.

9. Episode 9

January 20, 2014
30 min

Part 1 of 2. "MLK: A Call to Conscience."

10. Episode 10

January 21, 2014
30 min

Conclusion. "MLK: A Call to Conscience."

11. Episode 11

January 22, 2014
30 min

Julie Delpy; Robert Hilburn.

12. Episode 12

January 23, 2014
30 min

Joseph Gordon-Levitt; Gloria Gaynor.

13. Episode 13

January 24, 2014
30 min

Itzhak Perlman.

14. Episode 14

January 27, 2014
30 min

L.A. mayor Eric Garcetti; Chideo founder Todd Wagner.

15. Episode 15

January 28, 2014
30 min

Chita Rivera.

16. Episode 16

January 29, 2014
30 min

Teller; violinist Hilary Hahn.

17. Episode 17

January 30, 2014
30 min

Writer Samuel G. Freedman and former NFL quarterback James "Shack" Harris.

18. Episode 18

January 31, 2014
30 min

Tavis talks with Grammy Award–winning Beninoise singer-songwriter and activist Angélique Kidjo.

19. Episode 19

February 3, 2014
30 min

Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014) is remembered.

20. Episode 20

February 4, 2014
30 min

International law expert Edwin Smith (USC); Béla Fleck.

21. Episode 21

February 5, 2014
30 min

Dr. Alvaro Huerta; Shelby Lynne.

22. Episode 22

February 6, 2014
30 min

Part 1 of 2 with Darlene Love and Merry Clayton.

23. Episode 23

February 7, 2014
30 min

Conclusion. Darlene Love and Merry Clayton.

24. Episode 24

February 10, 2014
30 min

Jamie Lee Curtis.

25. Episode 25

February 11, 2014
30 min

Disney animator Floyd Norman.

26. Episode 26

February 12, 2014
30 min

David Hyde Pierce.

27. Episode 27

February 13, 2014
30 min

Chiwetel Ejiofor.

28. Episode 28

February 14, 2014
30 min

Tavis talks with Joel Kinnaman and Joy Bryant.

29. Episode 29

February 17, 2014
30 min

Tavis talks with P.J. O'Rourke and Amel Larrieux.

30. Episode 30

February 18, 2014
30 min

Will Forte; Earl Klugh.

31. Episode 31

February 19, 2014
30 min

Robert Greenwald; Dianne Reeves.

32. Episode 32

February 20, 2014
30 min

Toni Braxton and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds.

33. Episode 33

February 21, 2014
30 min

Sam Polk (founder, Groceryships); Rhea Perlman.

34. Episode 34

February 24, 2014
30 min

USC professor Robert English on the crisis in Ukraine. Also: actor and writer Steve Coogan.

35. Episode 35

February 25, 2014
30 min

Harry Lennix.

36. Episode 36

February 26, 2014
30 min

Physician David B. Agus; actress Julianne Nicholson.

37. Episode 37

February 27, 2014
30 min

Forest Whitaker.

38. Episode 38

February 28, 2014
30 min

A 2014 Academy Awards preview, featuring Oscar-nominated guests.

39. Episode 39

March 3, 2014
30 min

Alicia Keys; Herb Alpert.

40. Episode 40

March 4, 2014
30 min

Esa-Pekka Salonen; Wayne Shorter.

41. Episode 41

March 5, 2014
30 min

Gregory Porter; Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite.

42. Episode 42

March 6, 2014
30 min

Emeli Sandé; Robert Randolph.

43. Episode 43

March 7, 2014
30 min

Tavis talks with Lawrence Brownlee and Shemekia Copeland.

44. Episode 44

March 10, 2014
30 min

Scott Adams; Edwidge Danticat.

45. Episode 45

March 11, 2014
30 min

Tavis talks with Eric Schlosser and Brian Jay Jones.

46. Episode 46

March 12, 2014
30 min

Tavis talks with T.C. Boyle and Rick Najera.

47. Episode 47

March 13, 2014
30 min

M. Night Shyamalan; Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

48. Episode 48

March 14, 2014
30 min

Teller; Robert Hilburn.

49. Episode 49

March 17, 2014
30 min

The allegation that the CIA searched Senate computers is discussed. Also: Marlee Matlin.

50. Episode 50

March 18, 2014
30 min

Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman ("Harmony").

51. Episode 51

March 19, 2014
30 min

Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert ("The Sixth Extinction"); comedian Greg Edwards.

52. Episode 52

March 20, 2014
30 min

Author Peniel E. Joseph ("Stokely: A Life"); Martina McBride.

53. Episode 53

March 21, 2014
30 min

Tim Conway.

54. Episode 54

March 24, 2014
30 min

Bruce Jones (Brookings Institution); Dulé Hill and James Roday ("Pysch").

55. Episode 55

March 25, 2014
30 min

Robert Reich; Benmont Tench.

56. Episode 56

March 26, 2014
30 min

Errol Morris; Ledisi.

57. Episode 57

March 27, 2014
30 min

Author Shyima Hall ("Hidden Girl").

58. Episode 58

March 28, 2014
30 min

Author Miriam Pawel ("The Crusades of Cesar Chavez"); Stanley Jordan.

59. Episode 59

March 31, 2014
30 min

Immigration issues are discussed with undocumented activist Erika Andiola and Marielena Hincapié? (National Immigration Law Center). Also: Nathan East.

60. Episode 60

March 31, 2014
30 min

Author Clay Risen ("The Bill of the Century").

61. Episode 61

April 1, 2014
30 min

Author Saladin Ambar ("Malcolm X at Oxford Union"); Zucchero Fornaciari.

62. Episode 62

April 3, 2014
30 min

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.

63. Episode 63

April 7, 2014
30 min

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (Council on Foreign Relations); hip-hop music artist Christylez Bacon.

64. Episode 64

April 8, 2014
30 min

David Crosby.

65. Episode 65

April 9, 2014
30 min

Frank Langella.

66. Episode 66

April 10, 2014
30 min

Sociologist Katherine S. Newman ("The Accordion Family"); composer Hafez Nazeri.

67. Episode 67

April 11, 2014
30 min

Stewart Copeland.

68. Episode 68

April 14, 2014
30 min

Ken Burns.

69. Episode 69

April 15, 2014
30 min

Rosanne Cash.

70. Episode 70

April 16, 2014
30 min

Ed Catmull (Disney and Pixar Animation Studios); Tatiana Maslany.

71. Episode 71

April 17, 2014
30 min

Jackie Collins.

72. Episode 72

April 18, 2014
30 min

Environmental scientist Ken Caldeira (Stanford); author Philip Yancey ("The Jesus I Never Knew").

73. Episode 73

April 21, 2014
30 min

The crisis in Ukraine is discussed with Robert English (USC School of International Relations). Also: Daniel Beaty.

74. Episode 74

April 22, 2014
30 min

Tavis talks with Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Ian Somerhalder.

75. Episode 75

April 23, 2014
30 min

Nas.

76. Episode 76

April 24, 2014
30 min

Author Barbara Ehrenreich ("Living With a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth About Everything"}.

77. Episode 77

April 25, 2014
30 min

Economist William Easterly; L.A. Opera music director James Conlon.

78. Episode 78

April 28, 2014
30 min

Mikhail Baryshnikov.

79. Episode 79

April 29, 2014
30 min

Larry King.

80. Episode 80

April 30, 2014
30 min

Robin Roberts.

81. Episode 81

May 1, 2014
30 min

Author Sylvia Longmire ("Border Insecurity"); Harry Hamlin.

82. Episode 82

May 2, 2014
30 min

Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong.

83. Episode 83

May 5, 2014
30 min

Sen. Bernie Sanders (Ind.-Vt.); Carla Bruni.

85. Episode 85

May 7, 2014
30 min

Vermont governor Peter Shumlin; Ken Cook (Environmental Working Group).

86. Episode 86

May 8, 2014
30 min

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.); Hugh Dancy.

88. Episode 88

May 12, 2014
30 min

Ralph Nader; John Slattery.

89. Episode 89

May 13, 2014
30 min

Journalist Jonathan M. Katz ("The Big Truck That Went By"); Connie Britton.

90. Episode 90

May 14, 2014
30 min

Barbara Walters; Maurice Hines.

91. Episode 91

May 15, 2014
30 min

Part 1 of 2. Mel Brooks.

92. Episode 92

May 16, 2014
30 min

Conclusion. Mel Brooks.

93. Episode 93

May 19, 2014
30 min

The abducted girls in Nigeria are discussed with journalist Omoyele Sowore and Amber Khan (Women for Women International).

94. Episode 94

May 20, 2014
30 min

Renée Fleming.

95. Episode 95

May 21, 2014
30 min

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.); Jim Parsons.

96. Episode 96

May 22, 2014
30 min

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.); Jon Favreau.

97. Episode 97

May 23, 2014
30 min

"Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner.

98. Episode 98

May 26, 2014
30 min

David Goodman (Andrew Goodman Foundation).

99. Episode 99

May 27, 2014
30 min

Author Nell Bernstein ("Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison"); Ed O'Neill.

100. Episode 100

May 28, 2014
30 min

A tribute to Maya Angelou (1928-2014). Also: Ziggy Marley.

101. Episode 101

May 29, 2014
30 min

A tribute to Maya Angelou (1928-2014).

102. Episode 102

May 30, 2014
30 min

Arianna Huffington; Brian Culbertson.

103. Episode 103

June 2, 2014
30 min

Elizabeth Kolbert ("The Sixth Extinction"); Daniel Beaty.

104. Episode 104

June 3, 2014
30 min

Ed Catmull (Pixar Animation Studios); Marlee Matlin.

105. Episode 105

June 4, 2014
30 min

Ken Cook (Environmental Working Group); Earl Klugh.

106. Episode 106

June 5, 2014
30 min

Peniel E. Joseph ("Stokely: A Life"); Tatiana Maslany.

107. Episode 107

June 6, 2014
30 min

James Conlon; Ledisi.

108. Episode 108

June 9, 2014
30 min

Immigration reform is discussed with Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Cal.) and Jersey Vargas, a 10-year-old California girl whose father faces deportation.

109. Episode 109

June 10, 2014
30 min

Allison Janney.

110. Episode 110

June 11, 2014
30 min

Dr. David B. Agus; Clark Gregg.

111. Episode 111

June 12, 2014
30 min

A tribute to Ruby Dee (1922-2014).

112. Episode 112

June 13, 2014
30 min

Rob and Carl Reiner.

113. Episode 113

June 16, 2014
30 min

Former senator Joseph Lieberman; Toni Braxton.

114. Episode 114

June 17, 2014
30 min

Tavis talks with Sebastian Junger and Carol Leifer.

115. Episode 115

June 18, 2014
30 min

Author Nomi Prins ("All the Presidents' Bankers"); Noah Wyle.

116. Episode 116

June 19, 2014
30 min

Educator-civil rights activist Bob Moses; documentarian Stanley Nelson ("Freedom Summer").

117. Episode 117

June 20, 2014
30 min

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.

118. Episode 118

June 23, 2014
30 min

Sociologist Jennifer Lee (UC Irvine); John Lloyd Young.

119. Episode 119

June 24, 2014
30 min

Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers.

120. Episode 120

June 25, 2014
30 min

C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb.

121. Episode 121

June 26, 2014
30 min

Paul Rieckhoff (Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America); bluesman Robert Cray.

122. Episode 122

June 27, 2014
30 min

Dancer Charles "Lil Buck" Riley.

123. Episode 123

June 30, 2014
30 min

Tavis talks with Ron Capps, founder of the Veterans Writing Project, and with 10-time Grammy-winning trumpet legend Arturo Sandoval.

124. Episode 124

July 1, 2014
30 min

Tavis talks with six-time Emmy-nominated British actor and musician Hugh Laurie.

125. Episode 125

July 2, 2014
30 min

Tavis talks with best-selling authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner and with an original Dreamgirl, Jennifer Holliday.

126. Episode 126

July 3, 2014
30 min

Tavis talks with former astronaut Buzz Aldrin and with Chaz Ebert about the documentary on her late husband, entitled Life Itself.

127. Episode 127

July 4, 2014
30 min

Tavis talks with Michael Levi and Elizabeth Economy about their text on China and with award-winning singer-songwriter Yuna.

128. Episode 128

July 7, 2014
30 min

Law professor Melissa Murray; Jason Biggs.

129. Episode 129

July 8, 2014
30 min

Beau Bridges.

131. Episode 131

July 10, 2014
30 min

Journalist Alex Tizon ("Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self"); Sister Simone Campbell, the executive director of NETWORK.

132. Episode 132

July 11, 2014
30 min

Neurologist Stanley B. Prusiner ("Madness and Memory"); Demián Bichir.