Y&R Wins WGA Best Daytime Serial
Congratulations goes out to the writing crew of The Young and the Restless for winning the Writers Guild of America award for best daytime serial. According to Deadline.com, both the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) and the the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) held their award ceremony simultaneously on their respective coasts, where Y&R's writing crew took home the gold. The following writers from the sudser scored a big win:
Amanda L. Beall, Tom Casiello, Lisa Connor, Janice Ferri Esser, Eric Freiwald, Jay Gibson, Scott Hamner, Marla Kanelos, Beth Milstein, Natalie Minardi Slater, Melissa Salmons, Linda Schreiber, James Stanley, Sandra Weintraub, Teresa Zimmerman.
Maria Arena Bell , along with Hogan Sheffer, were not listed because they were ineligible because of going fi-core during the 2007-2008 WGA strike.
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4 May 2008
1 year 41 weeks
So all those writers basically won an award for Maria and Hogan's work.
30 March 2009
2 days 14 hours
Congrats to the writing team of Y&R...for 9 out of the 12 months for 2009 I thought the show was on fire with the writing. Well deserved!
4 May 2008
1 year 41 weeks
The first three months of 2009 were great! But everything went to hell at Billy and Chloe's wedding. So much crap happened there.
30 March 2009
2 days 14 hours
Y&R has one of the best writing teams in daytime. Are there things I don't like yes, but after watching more soaps it is clear to me that Y&R has if not the best one of the best.
12 February 2010
4 days 8 hours
Y&R, in my opinion, despite some of the current storyline silliness, is still the 2nd best soap in daytime, with GH coming in first place. I honestly feel that they were unfairly shut out of the Daytime Emmys last year!! They should have been nominated for Best Writing, Best Show and Best Directing, but instead the Academy decided to honor that TRAIN WRECK "All My Children" ( I think that Chuck Pratt did some dirty work to
get that show nominated for all of those awards, because it was SOOOOO obviously undeserving!!!).
Y&R was the best of 2009, and I guess this victory is validation of all their brilliant work. Hopefully, they will be featured more prominently on the 2010 Emmy ballot.
15 October 2009
3 years 6 days
Y&R all the way baby! That great to hear and Y&R has always been the crown jewel in daytime serial
22 January 2008
4 hours 56 min
Uh, bull-to-the-shit Alistair Crane, soap writing is a collaborative effort. Hogan and Maria are head writers, which means they write story bibles and long stories, but the breakdown writers and dialogue writers are just as essential to any soap's success or failure.
4 May 2008
1 year 41 weeks
The long-term stories are more important than daily dialogue.
That being said, Y&R still didn't deserve to win because 75% of last year sucked.
29 August 2008
1 year 39 weeks
woo hoo!!! Congrats to the breakdown writers!!! the ones that do all the work!!!
18 February 2010
1 year 29 weeks
Y&R is the standard by which all contemporary soaps are judge by