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By Dom Serafini

At breakfast at my hotel in Singapore — when I was there for the ATF in early December 2022 — I regularly saw a girl of about five (…)

The international TV industry entered 2023 down one market (R.I.P. NATPE Miami), and (potentially) up three new markets that were seeking to replace it. Ultimately, just one of those new (…)

There are people — not only in the U.S., but also in Canada, in Germany, and in many other countries — who use the free speech argument to spread false (…)

By Dom Serafini

There are many reasons to do away with the Upfronts, a U.S. broadcast tradition going back to the 1960s. The first reason is the fact that the Upfronts (…)

By Dom Serafini

Looking back at the recently concluded ATF market in Singapore, I realized that aging has allowed me to know things that I didn’t even know I knew. It’s (…)

Time flies when you’re having fun, but was 2022 fun? Yes, we returned to a “new” normal life after the pandemic, but we also saw the destruction that “Mad Vlad” (…)

By Dom Serafini

During the 20th Century — specifically from 1934 to 1964 — Jewish artists created more than an estimated 50 percent of America’s classic Christmas songs and tunes.

Dreaming of (…)

Here are some suggestions for film-TV trade shows that have gone green (i.e., environmentally savvy), in order to keep participants from turning green with frustration or aggravation — especially if (…)

By Dom Serafini

There was a fascinating story published in the Business section of the November 20, 2022 edition of The New York Times. It took five full pages (out of (…)

By Allan Grafman*

Creatives want to know that they — and their projects — will be in the hands of astute, savvy, contemporary-minded, experienced development executives with track records. That the (…)