Tavis Smiley, who has brought rare diversity to late-night TV for a decade on PBS, will add another two years to his run.
The Tavis Smiley show has been renewed through 2015, PBS said Thursday.
“The highlight for me is surviving,” Smiley said, noting the growing competitiveness in the late-night talk show realm.
He said he’s unfazed by the coming shake-up that will see Jay Leno step down (again) as host of NBC’s Tonight, with the venerable show heading east as Jimmy Fallon takes over in February.
“For us, it’s the same old, same old – another white guy joins the line up,...
The Tavis Smiley show has been renewed through 2015, PBS said Thursday.
“The highlight for me is surviving,” Smiley said, noting the growing competitiveness in the late-night talk show realm.
He said he’s unfazed by the coming shake-up that will see Jay Leno step down (again) as host of NBC’s Tonight, with the venerable show heading east as Jimmy Fallon takes over in February.
“For us, it’s the same old, same old – another white guy joins the line up,...
- 11/14/2013
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside TV
Through a combination of radio and television programming, Tavis Smiley has become one of the most powerful African American political figures of our times. Some sources even rank him second only to Oprah Winfrey, so when Mr. Smiley made the Tavis Smiley Reports episode Too Important to Fail and decides to tackle an issue like the statistically significant dropout rates of African American teenage males, his input on the subject matter ought to be taken as a serious voice in the conversation. However, you also have to account for his tendency to drag cries of racism into arguments about social, governmental, and cultural failings. Tavis Smileys hour-long look into how certain schools have addressed and succeeded in overcoming the high dropout rate of African American teenage males has some great points, but Smiley’s highly biased approach sees him leading conversations in directions that don’t serve the topic as...
- 1/5/2012
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
For his third Tavis Smiley Reports primetime special, Tavis Smiley will travel to New Orleans to capture the mood and spirit of the city’s courageous residents five years after the levees failed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
This special comes out of a ongoing collaboration between Tavis Smiley and Academy-Award-winning director Jonathan Demme that began in 2006 when Smiley aired Demme’s documentary “Right to Return: New Home Movies from the Lower 9th Ward” as a weeklong series on PBS. Demme has spent the past five years chronicling the people of New Orleans as they struggle to recover and rebuild their city. Smiley now returns to interview some of the city’s most resilient residents who share their rich cultural heritage as they rebuild schools, churches and homes against enormous odds.
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This special comes out of a ongoing collaboration between Tavis Smiley and Academy-Award-winning director Jonathan Demme that began in 2006 when Smiley aired Demme’s documentary “Right to Return: New Home Movies from the Lower 9th Ward” as a weeklong series on PBS. Demme has spent the past five years chronicling the people of New Orleans as they struggle to recover and rebuild their city. Smiley now returns to interview some of the city’s most resilient residents who share their rich cultural heritage as they rebuild schools, churches and homes against enormous odds.
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- 5/7/2010
- Look to the Stars
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