Writers Guild Nominations Announced: True Detective, Game of Thrones Lead Nominees
The Writers Guild of America announced this year's best television, news, new media and radio writing nominees. Networks like HBO and Netflix raked in multiple nominations for shows on their channels.
HBO earned nominations for "True Detective," "Game of Thrones," "Silicon Valley" and "Veep" among the drama and comedy categories, and sister network was given a nod for best new series with "The Knick."
Streaming content powerhouse Netflix scooped up nominations for original shows "Orange is the New Black" and "House of Cards." Amazon also was able to make the cut for the first time with a best comedy series nomination for "Transparent."
Winners will be announced on Valentine's Day, Saturday, Feb. 14, at the Writers Guild Awards, which will be held simultaneously in New York City and Los Angeles with ceremonies in each city.
Already, there appears to be some hurt feelings from audiences about whose names didn't appear on nomination lists. FX Networks released a press statement Friday afternoon explaining why some of its programming was not among the WGA's choices.
"When the WGA Award nominations were announced this morning, several news outlets commented about the notable omission of FX's award-winning miniseries 'Fargo,'" the release said.
"The network initially submitted 'Fargo' in the long form category based on the fact that the 10 one-hour scripts -- all written by Noah Hawley -- tell a single, close-ended story and therefore 'Fargo' is a miniseries. The WGA does not recognize 'Fargo' as a miniseries because Noah Hawley was accorded a 'Created for Television By' credit and said that 'Fargo' could only be considered in the drama series category. ... Since 'Fargo' is not in fact a drama series, and it is in fact a miniseries, FX made the decision not to submit Noah Hawley and his brilliant scripts for WGA Awards consideration."
Other notable omissions included Showtime's "Homeland."
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