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Clockwise (from top left): Debbie Gibson ( Acting Dead ), Alexandra Jordan ( High Road ), Alexandra Paul ( Mentor ), Susan Louise O'Connor ( Wallflowers ), Kim Strother ( Down Dog ) and Janet Walmsley ( Single & Dating in Vancouver ). The nominations for the 6th Annual Indie Series Awards were announced on February 4, and the ceremony is now only 14 days away. Serial Scoop is celebrating the nominees leading up to the ISA6 ceremony on April 1st by showcasing their work both in front of and behind the camera. In the Best Supporting Actress – Comedy category, the nominees are Debbie Gibson ( Acting Dead ), Alexandra Jordan ( High Road ), Alexandra Paul ( Mentor ), Susan Louise O'Connor ( Wallflowers ), Kim Strother ( Down Dog ) and Janet Walmsley ( Single & Dating in Vancouver ). Watch their nominated work below:

Crown Media Family Networks, home of Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, announced today the launch of Crown Connectivity, a new division designed to create 360-degree seamless integration opportunities for advertisers across both networks' linear, digital, and social media platforms. "Viewers are increasingly engaging with our brand beyond our linear channels, creating an abundance of new opportunities for marketers to convey their messages in a more holistic and impactful way," said Bill Abbott, president and CEO, Crown Media Family Networks. "Crown Connectivity will allow us to more effectively collaborate with our advertising partners in the development of innovative, customized campaigns that bridge Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries with their online extensions." The inauguration of Crown Connectivity comes on the heels of the company's recent full-scale redesigns of both networks' consumer websites, which f...

One week ahead of its spring finale, The Fosters rose to season highs across Adults 18-34 (508,000/0.7 rating), Women 18-34 (460,000/1.4 rating), Adults 18-49 (728,000/0.6 rating), Women 18-49 (619,000/1.0 rating), Viewers 12-34 (756,000/0.8 rating) and Females 12-34 (678,000/1.5 rating), and its #2 telecast of the season in Total Viewers (1.3 million), surging by double digits week to week across all demos. In fact, this was the series’ most watched regularly scheduled telecast since July 2014 in Women 18-34 and Females 12-34 – since 7/21/14. · At 8 o’clock, The Fosters qualified as Monday’s #1 scripted cable-TV telecast in the hour among Adults 18-34, Women 18-34, Women 18-49, Viewers 12-34 and Females 12-34. · Week to week, The Fosters grew by solid margins across the board, including by 18% in Total Viewers (1.3 million vs. 1.1 million), by 44% in Adults 18-34 (508,000 vs. 354,000), by 38% in Adults 18-49 (728,000 vs. 529,000) and by 25% in Viewers 12-34 (756...

Hindsight star Laura Ramsey. VH1 has picked up a second season of the critically acclaimed scripted series Hindsight . The first season finale aired on VH1 March 11th. Hindsight stars Laura Ramsey as Becca, who, on the eve of her second wedding in 2015, is having misgivings about her life, her career, and her husband-to-be, Andy (Nick Clifford). Suddenly, she is transported back in time twenty years to the morning of her first wedding day in 1995, when she's about to marry Sean (Craig Horner), a bad-boy artist who is all wrong for her. Becca has the opportunity to fix all of her mistakes and make the 'right' decisions the second time around - and her first move is to reconnect with her former best friend Lolly (Sarah Goldberg), with whom she had a falling out many years ago. But soon enough, Becca discovers there's no sure-fire way to make the right choices in life - even knowing everything she thinks she knows now. One decision may have the power to drastically al...

CBS today introduced a new data-driven approach for analyzing and buying time on broadcast television called “Campaign Performance Audit,” or CPA. This new approach, which CBS has been testing with select advertisers since last fall, is now available to all CBS clients looking to add performance-based metrics to maximize their network television spend and enhance their return on investment. Through CPA, CBS will provide advertisers with a formalized roadmap utilizing a growing range of analytics provided by CBS and Nielsen. For key clients, this includes access to CBS’s state-of-the-art research facility, Television City, where advertisers can test the effectiveness of messages to ensure their ads resonate with the brand’s target audience. In addition, CPA employs a full complement of Nielsen analytics, including Nielsen Catalina Solutions, Nielsen Buyer Insights, Nielsen MotorStats, Nielsen MRI Fusion, Nielsen Brand Effects and Nielsen Cambridge Media Demand Landscape.

(L to R) Shiri Appleby (Rachel) and Josh Kelly (Jeremy) star in the all-new Lifetime scripted series UnREAL premiering June 1 on Lifetime. Photo by James Dittiger Copyright 2015 Lifetime's highly-anticipated scripted series UnREAL , starring Shiri Appleby ( Girls ) and Constance Zimmer ( House of Cards , Entourage ), will premiere Monday, June 1, at 10 p.m. ET/PT. This provocative drama, that gives a fictitious behind-the-scenes glimpse into the chaos surrounding the production of a dating competition program, makes its world premiere today at SXSW at 3:30pm CT in the Vimeo theater in the Austin Convention Center. UnREAL was created by Marti Noxon ( Girlfriends Guide to Divorce , Mad Men , Buffy the Vampire Slayer ) and Sarah Gertrude Shapiro. It was inspired by Shapiro's 2013 SXSW award-winning independent short film Sequin Raze . Set against the backdrop of the hit dating competition show Everlasting , UnREAL is led by flawed heroine Rachel Goldberg (Appleby), a young...

Cablevision and Home Box Office (HBO) announced today that they have reached an agreement to offer standalone streaming service HBO NOW to Optimum Online customers via the internet. Optimum is the first cable provider to partner with HBO to offer the new service, which is expected to launch in April in time for the fifth season of Game of Thrones. Kristin Dolan, Cablevision chief operating officer said: "As New York's premier connectivity company, we are enabling Optimum Online customers to enjoy content in any way they choose to receive it. We are well-positioned to support HBO NOW and, as technology advances, Cablevision will continue to meet the evolving needs of our customers."