2019 Writers Guild Awards Nominees: 'Days of our Lives,' 'General Hospital'

The Writers Guild Awards honor outstanding writing in film, television, new media, videogames, news, radio, promotional, and graphic animation categories. Today the nominees for the 2019 Writers Guild Awards were revealed. Check out the list below.

TELEVISION, NEW MEDIA, AND NEWS NOMINEES

DAYTIME DRAMA
Days of Our Lives, Head Writer: Ron Carlivati; Writers: Sheri Anderson, Lorraine Broderick, David Cherrill, Joanna Cohen, Lisa Connor, Carolyn Culliton, Richard Culliton, Rick Draughon, Cydney Kelley, David Kreizman, David A. Levinson, Rebecca McCarty, Ryan Quan, Dave Ryan, Katherine Schock, Elizabeth Snyder, Tyler Topits; NBC

General Hospital, Head Writers: Shelly Altman, Christopher Van Etten; Writers: Barbara Bloom, Anna Theresa Cascio, Suzanne Flynn, Charlotte Gibson, Lucky Gold, Kate Hall, Elizabeth Korte, Daniel James O'Connor, Donny Sheldon, Scott Sickles; ABC

DRAMA SERIES
The Americans, Written by Peter Ackerman, Hilary Bettis, Joshua Brand, Joel Fields, Sarah Nolen, Stephen Schiff, Justin Weinberger, Joe Weisberg, Tracey Scott Wilson; FX Networks

Better Call Saul, Written by Ann Cherkis, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Gennifer Hutchison, Heather Marion, Bob Odenkirk, Thomas Schnauz, Gordon Smith, Alison Tatlock; AMC

The Crown, Written by Tom Edge, Amy Jenkins, Peter Morgan; Netflix

The Handmaid’s Tale, Written by Yahlin Chang, Nina Fiore, Dorothy Fortenberry, John Herrera, Lynn Renee Maxcy, Bruce Miller, Kira Snyder, Eric Tuchman; Hulu

Succession, Written by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Jon Brown, Jonathan Glatzer, Anna Jordan, Lucy Prebble, Georgia Pritchett, Tony Roche, Susan Soon He Stanton, Daniel Zelman; HBO

'General Hopsital' Wins 2018 Writers Guild Award

ABC soap opera General Hospital beat out fellow Daytime Drama nominee, NBC's Days of our Lives, at the Writers Guild Awards on February 11.

Here's the winning GH team.

Head Writers: Shelly Altman, Jean Passanante; Writers: Anna Theresa Cascio, Suzanne Flynn, Charlotte Gibson, Lucky Gold, Kate Hall, Elizabeth Korte, Daniel James O'Connor, Dave Rupel, Katherine Schock, Scott Sickles, Christopher Van Etten, Christopher Whitesell

Check out the complete list of nominees and winners here.

WGA Reaches Tentative Agreement with AMPTP

Soap operas and late night talk shows will continue without interruption thanks to a tentative agreement between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Below is a press release from the WGA with additional details.

WGA Reaches Tentative Agreement with AMPTP

Dear Colleagues-

Your Negotiating Committee is pleased to report that we have reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP that we can recommend for ratification.

In it, we made gains in minimums across the board - as well as contribution increases to our Health Plan that should ensure its solvency for years to come. And we further expanded our protections in Options and Exclusivity.

'General Hospital' Writing Team Wins at 68th WGA Awards

General Hospital won in the Daytime Drama category at the 68th annual Writers Guild Awards on Saturday night. The ABC soap opera won for the second year in a row, this year beating one other nominee, The Bold and the Beautiful.

GH was nominated for the episode celebrating the soap's 52nd anniversary that aired on April 1, 2015. Current cast members took on past roles to recreate scenes from the show's very first episode that aired on that day in 1963.

The winning GH team included: Writers: Ron Carlivati, Anna Theresa Cascio, Andrea Archer Compton, Suzanne Flynn, Kate Hall, Elizabeth Korte, Daniel James O’Connor, Elizabeth Page, Jean Passanante, Katherine Schock, Scott Sickles, Chris Van Etten; ABC

The ceremony took place simultaneously in New York and Los Angeles. Below is a complete list of winners in other categories:

DRAMA SERIES
Mad Men, Written by Lisa Albert, Semi Chellas, Jonathan Igla, Janet Leahy, Erin Levy, Tom Smuts, Robert Towne, Matthew Weiner, Carly Wray; AMC

EPISODIC DRAMA
“Uno” (Better Call Saul), Written by Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould; AMC

'Days of our Lives' Writer Melissa Salmons To Receive the Richard B. Jablow Award at 2016 WGA Awards

Melissa Salmons won her fourth WGA Award
in 2014. It was the first one for her work at
Days of our Lives.

The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) announced on Friday that Days of our Lives writer Melissa Salmons will be honored with the Richard B. Jablow Award at the 68th annual Writers Guild Awards at the Edison Ballroom in New York City on February 13.

The Jablow award was established in 1978 to recognize devoted service to the Guild. It was created in honor of Richard B. Jablow, who helped found the WGAE, authored its constitution and served as its first counsel.

A Guild member since 1986, Salmons won a Daytime Emmy Award Award for her writing at both Guiding Light and As the World Turns, with 7 nominations total over the years. She has won four Writers Guild Awards and received another eleven nominations. She has also written for One Life to Live, The Young and the Restless and Another World during her career.

Salmons was elected to two terms on the WGAE’s council and has served on multiple committees, including the MBA negotiating committee, the elections committee and co-chair of the future members committee. She is currently a trustee of the Writers’ Guild-Industry Health Fund and the Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan.

Soap Opera Writers Being Bullied Into Signing Waivers Cutting Pay and Scripts?

According to a story on Deadline.com, more and more soap opera writers are being “bullied” by producers into requesting waivers from the WGA to take pay cuts. Deadline sites guild sources, one of whom described it as a “particularly insidious” problem that’s “cropping up regularly on daytime TV.” The guild has been powerless to do anything about it because the writers are afraid that they’ll lose their jobs if they speak up.

WGA sources say that veteran CBS soaps The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless are the ones the guild has received the most complaints about. The guild’s contract requires a show’s soap writers to be given one assignment a week, but writers can ask for a waiver to cut back on the workload if they have a legitimate reason, such as illness or a family emergency.

Some producers allegedly have been gaming the system by bullying less-favored writers into asking the guild for waivers to reduce their assignments by one or more a month, even though they actually want to continue working full time. Sources say that some writers have been forced to give up a script or two a month so that an actor or a line producer can write a show or so a new writer can be brought in at no extra cost.

'General Hospital' Wins WGA Award (Video)

"Soaps are unique, and they're special," GH head writer Ron Carlivati said during his acceptance speech.

On Saturday, February 14, The Writers Guild of America, West and The Writers Guild of America, East held simultaneous awards ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. Ron Carlivati and the writing team from General Hospital won the award in the Daytime Drama category. Watch Abigail Spencer (ex-Becca, All My Children) present the award below:

'General Hospital' Wins WGA Award

GH head writer Ron Carlivati posted this photo on Twitter with the
caption: "Thanks to the #WGA for this honor & thanks to my amazing
writing team!"

The Writers Guild of America, West and The Writers Guild of America, East are holding simultaneous awards ceremonies Saturday at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles and the Edison Ballroom in New York. Lisa Kudrow is hosting the Los Angeles ceremony, while Larry Wilmore hosts the New York event.

Ron Carlivati and the writing team from General Hospital won the award in the Daytime Drama category. Days of our Lives was the other nominee. Note: The last time a daytime soap opera won the WGA Award and a Daytime Emmy for writing in the same year was 2006 (The Young and the Restless).

Below is a list of winners:

DAYTIME DRAMA
General Hospital, Written by Ron Carlivati, Anna Theresa Cascio, Suzanne Flynn, Kate Hall, Elizabeth Korte, Daniel James O’Connor, Elizabeth Page, Katherine Schock, Scott Sickles, Chris Van Etten; ABC

DRAMA SERIES
True Detective, Written by Nic Pizzolatto; HBO

RADIO NEWS SCRIPT – ANALYSIS, FEATURE, OR COMMENTARY
“Civil Rights at 50,” Written by Jane Tillman Irving; WCBS Radio

RADIO DOCUMENTARY
“Three Shots Rang Out: The JFK Assassination 50 Years Later,” Written by Darren Reynolds; ABC News Radio

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Screenplay by Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness; Fox Searchlight

'Days of our Lives' and 'General Hospital' Receive Writers Guide Award Nominations

The nominees for the 2015 Writers Guild Awards were announced on Thursday in the TV, New Media and Radio categories. ABC's General Hospital and NBC's Days of our Lives were nominated in the Daytime Drama category.

Below is a complete list of nominees:

TV-NEW MEDIA-RADIO NOMINEES

DRAMA SERIES
Game of Thrones, Written by David Benioff, Bryan Cogman, George R.R. Martin, D.B. Weiss; HBO
The Good Wife, Written by Leonard Dick, Keith Eisner, Matthew Hodgson, Ted Humphrey, Michelle King, Robert King, Erica Shelton Kodish, Matthew Montoya, Luke Schelhaas, Nichelle Tramble Spellman, Craig Turk, Julia Wolfe; CBS
House of Cards, Written by Bill Cain, Laura Eason, Sam R. Forman, William Kennedy, Kenneth Lin, John Mankiewicz, David Manson, Beau Willimon; Netflix
Mad Men, Written by Heather Jeng Bladt, Semi Chellas, Jonathan Igla, David Iserson, Erin Levy, Matthew Weiner, Carly Wray; AMC
True Detective, Written by Nic Pizzolatto; HBO

WGA Awards 2014 Winners: DAYS OF OUR LIVES, BREAKING BAD, HOUSE OF CARDS

The Writers Guild of America, West handed out its awards Saturday evening, with "Her" taking the honors for original screenplay and "Captain Phillips" winning for adapted screenplay. Below is a full list of winners and nominees.

Screen nominees:

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
"American Hustle," written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell (Columbia Pictures)
"Blue Jasmine," written by Woody Allen (Sony Pictures Classics)
"Dallas Buyers Club," written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack (Focus Features)
WINNER: "Her," written by Spike Jonze (Warner Bros.)
"Nebraska," written by Bob Nelson (Paramount Pictures)

WGA Reveals 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time

The Writers Guild of America on Sunday unveiled its list of the 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time.

THE SOPRANOS led the list, the results of online voting by members of the WGA West and WGA East.

The WGA’s complete list of TV series follows:

WGA Study Finds TV Writing Remains A White Man's World

In its latest analysis of the state of diversity in writing for TV, the Writers Guild of America, West finds that while there have been some recent job gains for minority and women writers, the employment playing field in Hollywood is far from level. The 2013 TV Staffing Brief analyzes employment patterns for 1,722 writers working on 190 broadcast and cable TV shows during the 2011-2012 season, highlighting three specific groups who have traditionally been underemployed in the TV industry: women, minority, and older writers.