WGA Awards Honor 'Mad Men,' '30 Rock' and others
On Saturday night, the Writers Guild of America revealed the big winners for 2010, honoring the best in TV, movies and other media, but for our purposes, let's just stick with television. And as such, we can say the they rounded up the usual suspects. 'Mad Men' was tops in Drama Series and '30 Rock' was tops in Comedy Series. There was something new honored, Best New Series was 'Modern Family,' but seeing how the category makes new a requirement, it's not that shocking that it won.
However, in the episodic categories, for individual shows, there were was variance. The pilot of 'Modern Family' won in a tie with '30 Rock' for the episode 'Apollo, Apollo.' And the two part episode of 'House' -- 'Broken, Part 1 and Part 2' -- overcame all the 'Mad Men' nominees to take the WGA prize.
'Saturday Night Live' and 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' ties for Comedy/Variety Series. Again, if this is surprising to you, I have some swamp land you can buy cheap. And in the category of Daytime Serial, 'The Young and the Restless' took the award.
Overall, all very worthy and correct winners. You can't knock any of them, but it would be great if more great writing could be recognized because seeing 'Dexter,' 'Breaking Bad,' 'Glee' and 'Big Love' as also-rans just isn't good enough.

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