Stream On with Jim Williams

My guest is Jason Watkins who many of you will remember from his crucially acclaimed roles in The Crown and Hold the Sunset with the legendary comedy icon John Cleese returns for series 2 of McDonald and Dodds. He talks with me about some new twists in series 2 of the show and how in many ways he brought a little bit of the United States television detective Colombo played by Peter Faulk to DS Dod...

My guests are the cast of the new Bounce and Brown Sugar show Johnson. Deji LaRay, Philip Smithey, Thomas Q. Jones, and Derrex Brady. Johnson has a wonderful ensemble cast that includes some pretty powerful women who are happy to share their thoughts with the men in a real way that pulls no punches. The old saying timing is everything is I think the best way to describe the new Bounce–Brown Sugar...

This week my guest is Mike Gamboa, Director of Partner Growth at Roku he ran point on the partnership deal with NBC Universal creating the 2020 Tokyo Olympic experience. For the first time ever, Roku has created an easy-to-access way to watch all of NBCU’s 5,500 hours of streaming coverage of the Summer Games directly from the home screen. Additionally, Roku users will be able to access in-depth c...

My guest is Wallet Hub analyst Jill Gonzalez who did a great job along with her team in crunching the numbers for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. This Olympics will be the most streamed sporting event in history with over 7,000 hours of content seen worldwide. Join us as we do a deep dive into all of the Olympic costs from the what NBC paid to broadcast the games to how the Japanese people help to make t...

My guests this week are Lauren DeVillier and Paul Pastor, two founding members of a new streaming service called Struum. If you have not yet heard of Struum I can assure you that you will and you are going to want to give it a try. Struum allows using credits to access shows and movies from a growing number of services with one monthly subscription. You can unlock 1000s of stories that match your...

My guest this week is Michael Wayne the CEO of KIN one of the most creative and innovative programming sources in the streaming world. One of the many things that set Kin apart from other programmers is that they develop Lifestyle Franchises that work across platforms. Kin specializes in creating programs that they get to profitability first on social platforms like YouTube and Facebook Watch as t...

This week our guests are Bonnie Comley and Stewart Lane, the founders and driving forces behind the outstanding streaming service BroadwayHD. They over 200 play that ranges from Tony Award winners to some gems that will become your favorites. Six years ago they started BroadwayHD and in the process, they are pioneers who perfected the concept of digital capturing plays from Broadway with camera sh...

My guest is Adam Dylewski, Director of Programming, PBS Digital Studios and he talks about their big summer of “PBS Short Docs,” a curated collection of short documentaries to showcase the work of independent and diverse filmmakers on PBS Voices, a documentary-focused YouTube channel. They kick off Pride Month with several outstanding docs including one that I recommend called “Prom of Their Dream...

We chat with the charming and talented Genevieve O’Reilly who stars with Eric Bana in The Dry that opens today worldwide as well being available streaming on-demand, This is an old school murder mystery with a wonderful twist and turns that will keep you guessing till the very end. The film is set in the Australian outback and is based on a best-selling book penned by Jane Harper. It is a well-act...

My guest is Jed Mercurio the creative force behind the epic police drama Line of Duty. Series six of the wildly successful show will debut on May 18th here in the U.S. exclusively on Britbox. ( https://www.britbox.com/us/ ) Last year when we spoke to Jed Series five had just come off of rave reviews for the BBC 1 and massive ratings but that was just the start of things to come for Line of Duty. T...

No matter where you get your news from in 2021 and there are over 100,000 so-called media outlets from traditional outlets to social media outlets there is one question we all have. Is the information I read daily really true or am I being fed disinformation to manipulate the way I think? Our guest Adam Ostrow is TEGNA’s Chief Digital Officer and he is on the frontlines of the battle over disinfor...

For my guest best-selling author, Peter James getting Grace from the pages of his best-selling novel to an ITV/Britbox hit did not come easy. He tells me that it took almost a decade to find the right people to make Grace come alive but when it did he knew it the instant that it happened. James met someone he trusted to make Grace become a reality and that was the very talented Russell Lewis. He i...

This week my guest is the very talented and versatile Jimmy Akingbola who shows us his comedy chops in the new ITV hit from the U.K. Kate and Koji, which drops Tuesday on Britbox. Joining Akingbola in this sitcom that has taken Britain by storm is another gifted actor none other than Vera herself the brilliant Brenda Blethyn. Kate and Koji is a comedy that is centered on a relationship between Ble...

Our guest is Stephen Espinoza the President of Sports and Event Programming for Showtime Networks Inc. We talk about tonight’s big MMA fight plus more about the commitment by Showtime to remain the leader in high-quality combat sports, plus we talk about the deep portfolio of other non-combat sports content that they offer. Tonight Showtime will offer MMA’s fans a super card of fights BELLATOR MMA...

This week’s guest is Lois Vossen is the Executive Producer of Independent Lens one of the most important shows on PBS. She has been with the show since its inception as a primetime series on PBS. Lois is responsible for commissioning new films, programming the series, and working with filmmakers on editorial and broadcast issues. Independent Lens films have received 25 Emmy Awards, 23 George Foste...

Our guest is Elie Ben-David the driving force behind the new internationally acclaimed Acorn TV drama The Attaché. Ben-David tells his very special story that he created, wrote, directed, and starred in which is a great deal of work but it pays off big time. He plays the role of Avshalom, a successful musician in Israel, who relocates to Paris when his wife Annabelle played by the talented Héloïse...

Jon Lin, VP of Product for SLING TV is my guest and we talk about March Madness and how you can start your own March Madness, “Watch Party, with family and friends. This streaming service is the only one to offer this fun service. Here are a few highlights of how the Watch Party works: Video and text chat: SLING Watch Party participants can connect in real-time during the games. Audio and visual c...

My guest is an award-winning actress and songwriter, Frida Farrell who stars in the true-life drama about sex trafficking called Apartment 407, now playing on Amazon Prime here in the United States and Canada – soon will be coming to her fans in Europe. For Farrell this is her story, she helped write it and even wrote the opening music for the film. The Swedish actress was rewarded for her creativ...

We have a fun chat with the delightful Elen Rhys who is one of the stars of the BritBox original hit The Mallorca Files which launches series two on arch 2nd and that gives you some time to catch up on season one. For those who have not seen the show (shame on you), it is a great binge-worthy show. It one of those fun series where two totally different partners solve crimes together as a team. DC...

This week’s guest is Jay Denton a talented Los Angeles-based music producer, songwriter, and musician who is bringing the world together with music. We talk about his Amazon Prime documentary Endure: Lebanon, the first documentary in a feature film series that follows music producer Jay Denton as he travels to destabilized regions of the world in order to create and produce music with those affect...

This week we talk about the Britbox original Honour with the show's producer Liza Marshall. If you are a fan of crime-drama then I highly recommend this movie for you that drops on Feb. 16th The true-crime drama revolves around Detective Chief Inspector Caroline Goode (Keeley Hawes, Bodyguard) and her real-life journey to bring to justice the killers of Banaz Mahmod, a young Londoner murdered by h...

Jeff Gerttula, EVP & GM of CBS Sports Digital, is the man who leads the team covering all aspects of Super Bowl LV in Tampa as the Buccaneers host the Kansas City Chiefs. It is a challenge under COVID 19 conditions but they will offer streamers a complete package of top quality content. Gerttula knows that more people than ever before will be watching not only the game itself via streaming but als...

I am joined by Brian Grant the director of the Britbox documentary Lennon's Last Weekend a not to be missed program. Today mark’s the 40th anniversary of the death of one of music’s greatest icons John Lennon. Earlier on that same day, he said goodbye to BBC Radio One D.J. Andy Peebles who had spent the weekend doing the last and possibly the most detailed interview ever given by the formal Beatle...

This week we talk with Danielle Bainbridge, Ph. D. about her outstanding series on PBS Digital the ORIGIN OF EVERYTHING and how she came up with the idea. We talk about the many topics that are covered and how watching the show is both entertaining while at the same time being educational. The newest offering of the program is titled “Why Do We Say African American?” From "Negro" to "Colored" and...

My guest is Cindy Cowan who just collected an Emmy Award for her amazing documentary Miracle on 42nd Street, a film featuring Alicia Keys, Terrence Howard, and Sam Jackson, to name a few. We talk about her film as well as how the COVID 19 pandemic has really slowed down all aspects of the entertainment industry. Cowan is producing Eye in the Sky with Millennium Films, to be directed by Simon West...