To view the full experience of this website, please download and install Adobe Flash Player 9.

Tavis Smiley features a unique mix of news and pop culture to create a thought-provoking and entertaining program. A hybrid of news, issues and entertainment, it features interviews with artists, activists, news makers, politicians and everyday people.

Visit the Tavis Smiley website

Support programming like Tavis Smiley through your local PBS station.

Tavis Smiley
Full episodes
1162 VIDEOS

Actor-musician Steve Martin
24:29 Air Date 02/23/12

Actor Don Cheadle
12:59 Air Date 02/22/12

Writer Thomas Frank
11:31 Air Date 02/22/12

Writer Pico Iyer
24:22 Air Date 02/21/12

Former ad exec Charlotte Beers
24:14 Air Date 02/20/12

Musician-actor Steven Van Zandt
24:35 Air Date 02/17/12

Filmmaker Lucy Walker
13:14 Air Date 02/16/12

Filmmaker Robin Fryday
10:52 Air Date 02/16/12

R&B; artist Anthony Hamilton
12:23 Air Date 02/15/12

Political reporter Jonathan Martin
11:51 Air Date 02/15/12

Journalist Thomas B. Edsall
24:38 Air Date 02/14/12

Personal finance expert Suze Orman
24:39 Air Date 02/13/12
+ MORE FULL EPISODES
Previews
16 VIDEOS

Tavis Smiley Generic :20
0:19 Air Date 12/08/11

Tavis Smiley Generic :30
0:29 Air Date 12/08/11

Too Important to Fail - Preview
0:30 Air Date 09/13/11

Tavis Smiley Reports Too Important to Fail Video Diary on Teachers
6:33 Air Date 09/01/11

Too Important to Fail Promo Clip
0:29 Air Date 08/15/11

Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky - clip
0:58 Air Date 12/06/10 Expires 12/08/13

Tony- and Emmy-winning actor Jeffrey Wright
2:04 Air Date 11/11/10 Expires 11/12/13

Salon's Editor-in-Chief Joan Walsh
1:27 Air Date 11/09/10 Expires 11/09/13

America's favorite TV mom Phylicia Rashad
2:50 Air Date 11/09/10 Expires 11/02/13

Singer Josh Groban on writing a song at age 12
2:34 Air Date 11/08/10

Singer-songwriter Huey Lewis
0:44 Air Date 11/05/10 Expires 11/08/13

Award-winning Haitian American author Edwige Dandicat
1:13 Air Date 11/01/10 Expires 11/01/13
+ MORE PREVIEWS
Shorts
171 VIDEOS

Steven Van Zandt on Whitney Houston
2:15 Air Date 02/16/12

Suze Orman
1:35 Air Date 02/10/12

Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer
2:09 Air Date 02/09/12

Internet activist Wael Ghonim
2:56 Air Date 02/08/12

Seal on His Separation
4:22 Air Date 01/27/12

Seal comments on Super Bowl 2012 - Web Exclusive
6:57 Air Date 01/27/12

Sean Penn
2:34 Air Date 01/20/12

Sean Penn on Haiti
4:21 Air Date 01/19/12

Documentary filmmaker Carl Colby - WEB EXCLUSIVE
6:48 Air Date 12/14/11

Novelist Jackie Collins Clip
1:57 Air Date 10/28/11

NBA legend Jerry West Clip
2:48 Air Date 10/27/11

Musician-producer Nile Rodgers Clip
1:36 Air Date 10/25/11
+ MORE SHORTS