WaterCooler

It felt like anything and everything that could happen did happen in the international television business between1981 and 2021. These four decades are now being recounted through 41 years of (…)

By Dom Serafini

In order for Americans and other qualified travelers to fly to the U.S. from Italy these days, Delta (and other airlines) requires proof of a negative COVID test (…)

By Dom Serafini

Google Translate is in need of a human touch, as recently reported in VideoAge‘s Water Cooler. Now that Google Scholar has become all the rage among academics, those (…)

VideoAge‘s Water Cooler digital features have apparently become popular in the U.S., Latin America, and Italy, among other regions in the world, which is great. In the U.S., various newsletters (…)

By Dom Serafini

Apparently, when a publication is born in print, it’s difficult for it to go fully digital very quickly.

Exhibit “A” is The Wall Street Journal. My yearly print subscription (…)

By Dom Serafini

Since April 2020, I’ve flown to Italy five times. That’s a total of 10 round-trip flights and 10 different COVID-free protocols over a 14-month period.

In July, for Italy-bound (…)

One hundred more fantastic personalities originally from 70 cities, towns, and villages around the Abruzzo region in central Italy. They currently reside in 25 countries around the world and on (…)

By Dom Serafini

In the 1970s, progressive producers like Norman Lear created TV sitcoms like All in the Family, whose main character, Archie Bunker, could be described as an equal opportunity (…)

By Dom Serafini

In early June, during an article about film production incentives from U.S. states, two writers for The Wall Street Journal went off on a tangent arguing that “throwing (…)

By Dom Serafini

I wonder where I was during the fantastic TV programs of the late ’70s and early ’80s. My son also wonders about my whereabouts in the ’90s, otherwise (…)