Talking with my friend Eric Stedman at the Serial Squadron, they've stopped their chat room portion. He suggests A) search Google for Free or HTML Chat rooms and then dig through what comes up.
B) Consider Facebook, where we could set up a "group chat"
C) Something called NING, which is a paid Social Network that he's going to try out... the fees (20-40) are per month depending on the extent of what you're doing.
LASTLY... re: serials, the Squadron has a 5 chapter version of PATRIA... a 1917 silent serial in which Warner Oland stars in his first onscreen Asian role.