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Serial Scoop Now host Chelsea Matthews spoke with the winners at the 9th Annual Indie Series Awards on April 4, 2018, at The Colony Theatre in Burbank.

The nominations for the 9th Annual Indie Series Awards were revealed on Wednesday, January 31. Celebrating the best in independently produced  entertainment created for the Web, ISAs nominees were announced in 30 categories. Ladies of the Lake  led all series with 18 total nominations, followed by  The Bay  with 16. Those shows will compete in the Best Drama Series category with  Anacostia ,  Giants ,  L.A. Macabre ,  Riley Parra ,  Running With Violet  and  Teenagers . Filth City  led all comedies with 12 nominations. The series is joined in the Best Comedy Series field by  190 Lorimer ,  The Amazing Hoolister Park ,  Bad Timing ,  Dear Mankind ,  How to Buy a Baby ,  Indoor Boys  and  ThreadBare . The Bold and the Beautiful  actress Patrika Darbo was nominated for her work in three separate web series:  Indoor Boys ,  The Bay  and  Ladies of the L...

On the Season 3 premiere of Serial Scoop Now , host Chelsea Matthews traveled to the Colony Theatre in Burbank for the opening night of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Driving Miss Daisy," starring Emmy Award winner Donna Mills, Arthur Richardson and James Leo Ryan. "Driving Miss Daisy" takes place in the 1940s through 1970s at the height of the Civil Rights movement. The play delicately explores racial tensions when a warm friendship evolves between an elderly Jewish woman and her black chauffeur. In Episode 3.1, Matthews chats with the cast, along with director Heather Provost. Watch below.

Principal photography began this week in Okanagan Valley, British Columbia on the romantic comedy "Summer in the Vineyard." The film reunites Rachael Leigh Cook ("Perception") and Brendan Penny ("Motive") who reprise their roles as Frankie Baldwin and Nate DeLuca. The movie will premiere during Hallmark Channel's annual "Summer Nights" programming event, featuring four new, original movie premieres celebrating the fun and carefree days of summer. The movie is the follow up to the successful "Autumn in the Vineyard," and continues the romance between Frankie Baldwin (Cook) and Nate DeLuca (Penny). As their first year at Sorrento Farms is coming to a close, they are looking forward to debuting their first vintage wine during the town's annual 'Summerfest' celebration. When the host winery for Summerfest pulls out at the last minute, Nate volunteers Sorrento to replace them, thinking it will be great publicity for their f...

Production has begun on "Sun, Sand & Romance," reuniting "Battlestar Galactica" castmates Tricia Helfer ("Lucifer," "Suits") and Paul Campbell ("Knightrider"). Shooting on location in Cancun, Mexico, the movie will premiere during Hallmark Channel's annual "Summer Nights" programming event, featuring four new, original movie premieres celebrating the fun of the season. "Duck Dynasty's" Sadie Robertson also stars. Kate (Helfer), a driven accounting executive, heads to Cancun with her boyfriend Eric, an equally ambitious land development executive, for some much-needed rest and relaxation. But the getaway they agreed would be 90 percent romance and just 10 percent work becomes anything but that. Upon arrival, Eric learns a prominent real estate developer is a guest in their resort. Wanting to seize the opportunity for potential business, Eric chases this new venture and leaves Kate to her own devices time...

Actor and artist James Kiberd is best known to soap opera fans for his 11-year stint as Trevor Dillon on ABC's All My Children . That followed a memorable run as Mike Donovan on Loving , and a few months as Dustin Trent on NBC's Another World . Following All My Children , he stepped in for a time as Hal Munson on CBS' As the World Turns . In addition to his work on daytime dramas, Kiberd is a talented artist and stage performer. He was named Best Actor earlier this year at the 2017 Midtown International Theater Festival for his portrayal of Big Jim in "The Crusade of Connor Stephens," a new play written and directed by Dewey Moss In "The Crusade of Connor Stephens," extreme loss shakes a Texas family as it comes to terms with a tragic act of violence. In the midst of widespread media attention, their story becomes an allegory for the national debate over religion, tolerance and the seedlings of hate. With humor and resilience, they will confront t...

Serial Scoop teamed up with We Love Soaps to cover the 44th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. In the latest episode of Serial Scoop Now (2.18) below from the Creative Arts ceremony, check out host Jenna Stone's interviews with Danny Seo ( Naturally, Danny Seo ); Alexandra Goodman, Michael McShane and Armin Shimerman ( Red Bird ), Kevin Kliesch ( Sofia the First ), Gay Blackstone ( Masters of Illusion ), Josh Wakely ( Beat Bugs ), Ashlee Macropoulos ( This Just In ) and Christian Ganiere ( The Bay , Days of our Lives ).