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| Writers Guild of America Awards; Winner Announced | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 16 2015, 02:50 PM (1,337 Views) | |
| Mitchapalooza | Feb 16 2015, 02:50 PM Post #1 |
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GH (Ron Carlivati & Team) won the WGA Award this year, beating fellow nominee DAYS (Christopher Whitesell & Team; Tomlin was not nominated). http://michaelfairmansoaps.com/news/general-hospital-wins-wga-award-for-best-writing-daytime-drama/2015/02/14/ Edited by Mitchapalooza, Feb 16 2015, 02:50 PM.
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| talbab1994 | Feb 16 2015, 03:12 PM Post #2 |
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Are they even in the union? Did they write during a writers strike? I can't remember. |
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| Bright Eyes | Feb 16 2015, 03:17 PM Post #3 |
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Carlivati is in the union. During the strike, it was Tomlin who wrote OLTL. He's the one that decided to knock up Starr, wheras RC would have originally went with a Starr/Cole/Langston triangle. |
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| talbab1994 | Feb 16 2015, 03:41 PM Post #4 |
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So, they couldn't be nominated anyway. I know there's some that write for Days that are in the union but they can't. Was it last year that Days won and RC blew a fit on twitter? |
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| DrewHamilton | Feb 16 2015, 03:43 PM Post #5 |
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I believe Whitesell, Broderick, etc. are still part of the union, so they were able to nominated. |
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| Mitchapalooza | Feb 16 2015, 03:49 PM Post #6 |
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I think DAYS entire writing staff is eligible save for Gary Tomlin. |
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| DiMera87 | Feb 16 2015, 04:52 PM Post #7 |
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They were eligible and nominated besides Tomlin. They won this same award last year and RC threw a bitch fit. I still don't get how B&B gets snubbed for this, but whatever. I'm bummed Carlivati won after being shitty about it last year, but given the competition I will say they probably deserved it. |
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| thepadange | Feb 17 2015, 05:57 AM Post #8 |
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No, not only Tomlin, JM Ford as well. BTW, both current Days Headwriters Dena Higley and Josh Griffith aren't eligible. I wonder if "Days" will submit their shows for the WGA :shrug: . |
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| DrewHamilton | Feb 17 2015, 08:30 AM Post #9 |
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If the rest of the writing team is part of the union, I can see the team being eligible. |
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| blueskies | Feb 17 2015, 10:11 AM Post #10 |
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The fact that writers were ousted for eternity for staying with their soaps (almost all the writers who ignored the strike were on soaps) I find ridiculous. Sure the primetime shows suffered, but they only produce about 20 eppis per year. Their scheduling could have been toyed with. Soaps do almost 250 eppis per year. |
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| Mitchapalooza | Feb 17 2015, 11:10 AM Post #11 |
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^I agree....the writers strike could have been much more damaging to soaps than to primetime shows. |
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