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Will Critics Choice Awards Replace The Golden Globes?

By Mike Reynolds

Over decades the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has exerted incredible power, especially when it comes to other awards. Comments from Yahoo news stories about the HFPA, for example, (…)

By |August 12th, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|1 Comment

Variety’s Bizarre Hatchet Job on Cuomo’s Emmy

By Dom Serafini

“New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo will be given the International Emmy Founders Award for effective communication and leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Variety, Nov. 20, 2020.

“The fact that Cuomo won an (…)

By |August 11th, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

“Robocop” Returns Worldwide in Full HD  

Los Angeles-based Rallie LLC has recently acquired all rights to the 23-hour action/adventure ROBOCOP: The Series and is now the worldwide distributor of the show in a brand-new, just-released 16 (…)

By |August 9th, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|6 Comments

Four Decades of International TV Biz Creates a Buzz

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 |August 5th, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

COVID Tests at FCO For U.S. Flights, CDC Cards For Green Passes

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 |August 2nd, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The “Scholarization” of the Entertainment Business

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 (…)

By |July 29th, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Google Translations Need a Human Touch

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 |July 22nd, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

“The Wall Street Journal” Digital Sub Saga

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 |July 15th, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

10 Trips. 10 Different COVID-Free Flights in 14 Months

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 (…)

By |July 8th, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

A New Book By VideoAge’s Dom Serafini

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 |July 1st, 2021|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments