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AMC, HBO Win Three Writers Guild Awards

Join NBC, PBS As Top TV Programming Winnners

John Eggerton -- Multichannel News, 2/8/2009 1:49:00 AM

The Writers Guild of America handed out its awards Saturday Night in New York and writers for pay cable, basic cable, commercial broadcasting and noncommercial broadcasting networks shared top honors among the television programming winners.

Writers for HBO, AMC, NBC and PBS topped the awards with three apiece.

HBO awards went to the writers of psychiatrist drama In Treatment (new series), original telefilm Recount (long-form original), and miniseries John Adams (long-form adapation).
AMC won for retro ad series Mad Men (drama) and  the pilot of Breaking Bad (episodic drama, one-time airing),

NBC's awards were for 30 Rock (best comedy series and best episode) and the writing team on Saturday Night Live (comedy/variety series).
PBS awards went to Secrets of the Parthenon (documentary), Frontline's Bush's War: Part One (documentary-current events); and Bill Moyers Journal, Yankee Stadium and the Gilded Age (news analysis, feature or commentary), and shared an award with IFC for the 2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards.
ABC writers took home two awards, and Fox, CBS and Nickelodeon collected one apiece.
CBS also won both promotional writing and graphic art awards for promo Jericho: Two Minute Drills and the medical animations on CBS Evening News.
Check out the names of the winning writers here.

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