The Writers Guild of America West will present Designing Women and Evening Shade creator Linda Bloodworth Thomason with its highest honor — the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement. The award is presented to a Guild member who has “advanced the literature of television and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the television writer.” Designing Women star Jean Smart will present the statuette to Bloodworth Thomason at the Wgaw’s annual WGA Awards on April 14.
The multiple Emmy-nominated television creator-writer, director, and producer launched her career with an Emmy-nominated script on M*A*S*H* in 1973. She concurrently worked on M*A*S*H* and Mary Tyler Moore Show spinoff Rhoda before creating and producing her first series Filthy Rich in 1982. Filthy Rich would lay the groundwork for the creation of landmark comedy series Designing Women by bringing her together with actresses and collaborators Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Annie Potts, and Smart.
In addition to her work in television,...
The multiple Emmy-nominated television creator-writer, director, and producer launched her career with an Emmy-nominated script on M*A*S*H* in 1973. She concurrently worked on M*A*S*H* and Mary Tyler Moore Show spinoff Rhoda before creating and producing her first series Filthy Rich in 1982. Filthy Rich would lay the groundwork for the creation of landmark comedy series Designing Women by bringing her together with actresses and collaborators Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Annie Potts, and Smart.
In addition to her work in television,...
- 4/2/2024
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
More good news for S.W.A.T. The series, which just got a renewal for a seventh and final season by CBS, also has a new streaming home. Netflix has made a substantial deal with lead studio Sony Pictures TV for the first five seasons of the action drama starring Shemar Moore, which will begin streaming in the U.S. on May 17. The current sixth season of the series is expected to join them on the platform in the fall.
As part of CBS’ deal for S.W.A.T. (and its other shows), current seasons of the network’s series are available on Paramount+ for their duration and a few months after they end their broadcast run. S.W.A.T.’s first three seasons are also currently on Hulu.
The pact with Netflix closed about a month or so ago, in the midst of Sony TV’s difficult renewal negotiations with CBS. Series’ executive producer/showrunner...
As part of CBS’ deal for S.W.A.T. (and its other shows), current seasons of the network’s series are available on Paramount+ for their duration and a few months after they end their broadcast run. S.W.A.T.’s first three seasons are also currently on Hulu.
The pact with Netflix closed about a month or so ago, in the midst of Sony TV’s difficult renewal negotiations with CBS. Series’ executive producer/showrunner...
- 5/15/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
The Writers Guild of America West has penciled in Living Single creator-showrunner Yvette Lee Bowser for its 2023 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement. She will receive the career honor, which is presented to a WGA member who has “advanced the literature of television and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the television writer,” at the 75th annual WGA Awards on March 5.
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A 35-year guild member with more than 600 hours of TV to her credit, Bowser began her career as an apprentice writer on NBC’s Cosby Show spinoff series A Different World,...
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A 35-year guild member with more than 600 hours of TV to her credit, Bowser began her career as an apprentice writer on NBC’s Cosby Show spinoff series A Different World,...
- 2/1/2023
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Emmy-winning producer and writer Alison Cross has signed with Buchwald for representation.
Cross has served as an executive producer on CBS’ S.W.A.T. under Shawn Ryan since the series’ premiere in 2017. Prior to that, she served as an executive prodcer on The Good Fight at CBS All Access.
She also served as a consulting producer on USA’s Queen of the South, as well as an executive producer on TNT’s legal drama Murder in the First, which reunited her with writer-producer Steven Bochco. Her additional producing credits include TNT’s Raising the Bar, ABC’s Commander in Chief and ABC’s legal drama Philly, which she co-created with Bochco.
Cross’ screenwriting credits include co-writing the 1996 film Blood and Wine, starring Jack Nicholson and Michael Caine.
In 2018, Cross received the WGA West’s Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award, an honor previously awarded to Aaron Sorkin, Garry Marshall, Shonda Rhimes and Larry David.
Cross has served as an executive producer on CBS’ S.W.A.T. under Shawn Ryan since the series’ premiere in 2017. Prior to that, she served as an executive prodcer on The Good Fight at CBS All Access.
She also served as a consulting producer on USA’s Queen of the South, as well as an executive producer on TNT’s legal drama Murder in the First, which reunited her with writer-producer Steven Bochco. Her additional producing credits include TNT’s Raising the Bar, ABC’s Commander in Chief and ABC’s legal drama Philly, which she co-created with Bochco.
Cross’ screenwriting credits include co-writing the 1996 film Blood and Wine, starring Jack Nicholson and Michael Caine.
In 2018, Cross received the WGA West’s Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award, an honor previously awarded to Aaron Sorkin, Garry Marshall, Shonda Rhimes and Larry David.
- 3/18/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
Merrill Markoe, longtime head writer at “Late Night With David Letterman,” will receive the Writers Guild of America West’s Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement.
She will be honored at the Writers Guild Awards on Feb. 1 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
“Merrill Markoe’s pioneering work created what was then a new language of comedy in television, and her writing has influenced every comedy variety series in the last three decades. We are truly honored to give her this award,” said WGA West president David A. Goodman.
Markoe has been a member of the WGA West since 1977. She’s best known as the co-creator and original head writer of 1980’s “The David Letterman Show,” for which she shared a Daytime Emmy Award. Markoe went on to earn six Emmy nominations and share three Emmy Awards for her work on “Late Night With David Letterman,” creating many of the show,...
She will be honored at the Writers Guild Awards on Feb. 1 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
“Merrill Markoe’s pioneering work created what was then a new language of comedy in television, and her writing has influenced every comedy variety series in the last three decades. We are truly honored to give her this award,” said WGA West president David A. Goodman.
Markoe has been a member of the WGA West since 1977. She’s best known as the co-creator and original head writer of 1980’s “The David Letterman Show,” for which she shared a Daytime Emmy Award. Markoe went on to earn six Emmy nominations and share three Emmy Awards for her work on “Late Night With David Letterman,” creating many of the show,...
- 12/13/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Merrill Markoe, the multple-Emmy-winning former head writer of Late Night with David Letterman, will receive the WGA West’s 2020 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement.
Named after one of television’s the most influential writers, the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award is the guild’s highest honor for television writing. It is presented to a guild member who has “advanced the literature of television and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the television writer.”
Markoe will receive the award at the Writers Guild Awards ceremony on February 1 in Los Angeles.
“Merrill Markoe’s pioneering work created what was then a new language of comedy in television, and her writing has influenced every comedy variety series in the last three decades. We are truly honored to give her this award,” said WGA West president David A. Goodman.
Markoe’s career as a TV writer began in 1977 on the revival of Laugh-In,...
Named after one of television’s the most influential writers, the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award is the guild’s highest honor for television writing. It is presented to a guild member who has “advanced the literature of television and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the television writer.”
Markoe will receive the award at the Writers Guild Awards ceremony on February 1 in Los Angeles.
“Merrill Markoe’s pioneering work created what was then a new language of comedy in television, and her writing has influenced every comedy variety series in the last three decades. We are truly honored to give her this award,” said WGA West president David A. Goodman.
Markoe’s career as a TV writer began in 1977 on the revival of Laugh-In,...
- 12/12/2019
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
The Good Fight is taking the leap from CBS All Access to CBS for a limited time.
It has been revealed the popular spinoff of The Good Wife will air its first season on the linear broadcast network beginning June 16.
“For three seasons, The Good Fight has been a big success for CBS All Access,” said Kelly Kahl, President, Entertainment for CBS.
“We’re excited to provide our network audience the opportunity to catch up with characters they first fell in love with on ‘The Good Wife,’ as well as introduce new viewers to this outstanding, critically acclaimed drama.”
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“The Good Fight was the first original series to launch on CBS All Access and continues to be a major driver for our service as it heads into its upcoming fourth season,” said Julie McNamara,...
It has been revealed the popular spinoff of The Good Wife will air its first season on the linear broadcast network beginning June 16.
“For three seasons, The Good Fight has been a big success for CBS All Access,” said Kelly Kahl, President, Entertainment for CBS.
“We’re excited to provide our network audience the opportunity to catch up with characters they first fell in love with on ‘The Good Wife,’ as well as introduce new viewers to this outstanding, critically acclaimed drama.”
Related: Get CBS All Access via Prime Video Channels for Hit Shows, Exclusive Originals & Live TV!
“The Good Fight was the first original series to launch on CBS All Access and continues to be a major driver for our service as it heads into its upcoming fourth season,” said Julie McNamara,...
- 5/29/2019
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
CBS said today that it will air the entire first season of The Good Fight starting at June 16. The Good Wife spinoff starring Christine Baranski from creators Robert and Michelle King had been available only on the CBS All Access Svod service.
It will mark the time a CBS All Access show has aired on the broadcast network since the Star Trek: Discovery premiere in September 2017. There had been a lot of interest in The Good Fight running on CBS, which aired The Good Wife, and CBS Corp acting CEO Joe Ianniello broke the news during the shareholder meeting this morning.
There will be bleeping when the first two episodes air back-to-back starting at 9 p.m. that Sunday, with Episodes 3 and 4 bowing in the same slot the following week. The series then will shift to the 10 p.m. Sunday slot starting with Episode 5. The Eye network noted that those first...
It will mark the time a CBS All Access show has aired on the broadcast network since the Star Trek: Discovery premiere in September 2017. There had been a lot of interest in The Good Fight running on CBS, which aired The Good Wife, and CBS Corp acting CEO Joe Ianniello broke the news during the shareholder meeting this morning.
There will be bleeping when the first two episodes air back-to-back starting at 9 p.m. that Sunday, with Episodes 3 and 4 bowing in the same slot the following week. The series then will shift to the 10 p.m. Sunday slot starting with Episode 5. The Eye network noted that those first...
- 5/29/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Jenji Kohan, creator of Weeds and Orange Is the New Black, will be this year’s recipient of the WGA West’s Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award, which is given to a guild member who has “advanced the literature of television and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the television writer.” She will be honored at the guild’s La awards show on February 17.
“Jenji Kohan’s work is what all good writers aspire to – touching on the harsh but also comedic realities of life through characters that don’t sound written, that talk like real people,” said WGA West president David A. Goodman. “Her scenes can be comic and tragic simultaneously; while she engages, she also unnerves, pushing us out of our comfort zone. Her work has truly advanced the literature of television, and the WGA West board of directors considers it our honor to give her this award.
“Jenji Kohan’s work is what all good writers aspire to – touching on the harsh but also comedic realities of life through characters that don’t sound written, that talk like real people,” said WGA West president David A. Goodman. “Her scenes can be comic and tragic simultaneously; while she engages, she also unnerves, pushing us out of our comfort zone. Her work has truly advanced the literature of television, and the WGA West board of directors considers it our honor to give her this award.
- 1/16/2019
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Jenji Kohan, creator and showrunner of “Orange Is the New Black” and “Weeds,” has been named recipient of the Writers Guild of America West’s Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement.
She will be honored at the Writers Guild Awards show on Feb. 17 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif.
“Jenji Kohan’s work is what all good writers aspire to – touching on the harsh but also comedic realities of life through characters that don’t sound written, that talk like real people,” said WGA West president David A. Goodman. “Her scenes can be comic and tragic simultaneously; while she engages, she also unnerves, pushing us out of our comfort zone. Her work has truly advanced the literature of television, and the Wgaw Board of Directors considers it our honor to give her this award.”
Kohan is also an executive producer and writer on “Glow.” She has...
She will be honored at the Writers Guild Awards show on Feb. 17 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif.
“Jenji Kohan’s work is what all good writers aspire to – touching on the harsh but also comedic realities of life through characters that don’t sound written, that talk like real people,” said WGA West president David A. Goodman. “Her scenes can be comic and tragic simultaneously; while she engages, she also unnerves, pushing us out of our comfort zone. Her work has truly advanced the literature of television, and the Wgaw Board of Directors considers it our honor to give her this award.”
Kohan is also an executive producer and writer on “Glow.” She has...
- 1/16/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Starring Emmy Award winner Christine Baranski (“The Good Wife”), the new edition of the hit CBS series, “The Good Wife,” The Good Fight: Season One, arrives on DVD March 13 from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Media Distribution. From “The Good Wife” creators Robert and Michelle King, fans can own CBS All Access’ critically acclaimed, first original scripted series in a threedisc set featuring deleted and extended scenes, and a gag reel, just in time for the Season Two premiere on March 4. Also starring Cush Jumbo (“The Good Wife”), Rose Leslie (“Game of Thrones”), Delroy Lindo (Point Break), Sarah Steele (“The Good Wife”), Justin Bartha (The Hangover), and Erica Tazel (“Justified”), the “smart and strong” (Entertainment Weekly) debut season picks up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of “The Good Wife.” The Good Fight follows Diane Lockhart (Baranski) as she fights her way back to the...
- 3/6/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Faced with formidable competition from the likes of Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”) and Guillermo del Toro (“The Shape of Water”), “Get Out” writer-director Jordan Peele took home Original Screenplay honors tonight at the 2018 Writers Guild Awards. “I just want to say thank you and everyone in this room that is a writer, to keep taking chances, to take big risks, put your love into it,” Peele said. “It does pay off, it is the hardest fucking thing, and it can take a long time, but our voices really do matter.”
Read More: Writers Guild of America 2018 Film Nominations: ‘Get Out,’ ‘Logan,’ and ‘Lady Bird’ All Score
Following a victory at the February 10 USC Libraries Scripter Awards, veteran director James Ivory — the 89-year-old screenwriter of “Call Me by Your Name” — received a standing ovation when, as expected, he accepted the adapted Screenplay award for his first solo script. “I just wanted...
Read More: Writers Guild of America 2018 Film Nominations: ‘Get Out,’ ‘Logan,’ and ‘Lady Bird’ All Score
Following a victory at the February 10 USC Libraries Scripter Awards, veteran director James Ivory — the 89-year-old screenwriter of “Call Me by Your Name” — received a standing ovation when, as expected, he accepted the adapted Screenplay award for his first solo script. “I just wanted...
- 2/12/2018
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
Cross is best known for writing TV movie Roe vs. Wade.
Source: Michael Jones
Alison Cross
Writer-producer Alison Cross has been named by the Writers Guild of America West (Wgaw) as the recipient of this year’s Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement.
Cross, best known for writing fact-based TV movies Serving In Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story and Roe vs. Wade, will receive the award at the Writers Guild Awards ceremony in Beverly Hills on February 11.
Previous winners of the award, which recognises a Guild member who has “advanced the literature of television and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the television writer,” include Steven Bochco, David Chase, Diane English, Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, Shonda Rhimes, Marta Kauffman and David Crane and Aaron Sorkin.
Cross won the 1995 Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries or a Special for Serving in Silence, about the Us military’s gay exclusion policy, and was nominated...
Source: Michael Jones
Alison Cross
Writer-producer Alison Cross has been named by the Writers Guild of America West (Wgaw) as the recipient of this year’s Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement.
Cross, best known for writing fact-based TV movies Serving In Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story and Roe vs. Wade, will receive the award at the Writers Guild Awards ceremony in Beverly Hills on February 11.
Previous winners of the award, which recognises a Guild member who has “advanced the literature of television and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the television writer,” include Steven Bochco, David Chase, Diane English, Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, Shonda Rhimes, Marta Kauffman and David Crane and Aaron Sorkin.
Cross won the 1995 Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries or a Special for Serving in Silence, about the Us military’s gay exclusion policy, and was nominated...
- 1/9/2018
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Two-time Emmy winner Alison Cross will be this year's recipient of the WGA West's Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award, the guild's highest honor for television writing. It's given to a guild member who has "advanced the literature of television and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the television writer." The award will be presented February 11 at the WGA Awards’ West Coast ceremony. Cross, who won Emmys for penning the 1989 TV movie Roe v. Wade and the…...
- 1/8/2018
- Deadline TV
Casey Anthony's real-life drama is headed back to TV, and actress Holly Deveaux has the job of portraying the reviled Florida mother who was acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. Deveaux, a 19-year-old Canadian newcomer, will star alongside Rob Lowe (as prosecutor Jeff Ashton), Elizabeth Mitchell (as fellow prosecutor Linda Drake Burdick) and The Office's Oscar Nuñez (as Anthony's defense lawyer Jose Baez) in the Lifetime TV flick. The movie, based on Ashton's book Imperfect Justice, will focus primarily on the attorneys behind Anthony's explosive 2011 trial related to Caylee's disappearance and death in 2008. But the film's writer, Alison Cross, told the...
- 5/24/2012
- E! Online
A little known Canadian actress, Holly Deveaux, is set to star as Casey Anthony in a movie which will portray the murder trial and shocking acquittal of the hated mother who was accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter, Caylee. The movie, “Prosecuting Casey Anthony,” is based on the book, “Imperfect Justice,” written by the case’s prosecuting lawyer, Jeff Ashley. “West Wing” star Rob Lowe will play the role of Jeff Ashley in the movie, while “The Office” actor, Oscar Nunez will have the difficult job of portraying Anthony’s defence lawyer, Jose Baez. Holly (19) beat Kristen Stewart, Alyssa Milano, and Jennifer Love Hewitt, to the role. The young actress, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Anthony, has previously starred in the Canadian series, “Baxter.” Holly’s role will be relatively limited in the movie, as producers plan to heavily rely on news footage. The movie, which will be a form of documentary,...
- 5/24/2012
- IrishCentral
Lifetime's go-to guy for docudramas is back again! Rob will star as Jeff Ashton, the prosecutor in the Casey Anthony trial. Oscar Nunez from 'The Office' is also slated as Casey's lawyer. The latest Lifetime drama Prosecuting Casey Anthony is well on its way with its top brass lawyer roles already filled out by actors Rob Lowe and Oscar Nunez! "It's gonna be interesting ... I think people are gonna dig it ... great script," Rob, 48, told TMZ on May 21. Rob, who will play lead prosecutor Jeff Ashton, said filming is about to begin on the 28th and the movie should be out in January 2013. Casey's attorney, Jose Baez, will be played by Oscar, 53, from The Office, Radar Online reported on May 21. "He did a fantastic audition that was so persuasive dramatically," the movie's writer Alison Cross said about Oscar. The trial was the focus of intense public scrutiny in 2011 when Casey,...
- 5/22/2012
- by Lorraine Chow
- HollywoodLife
LONDON -- British detective drama Murphy's Law could be the latest crime drama to cross the Atlantic after indie producer Tiger Aspect said Thursday it had sold the format to Touchstone Television. A U.S. pilot of Murphy's Law is currently in development with Fox Broadcasting. The show is being produced by Jeff Kline and writer Alison Cross at Touchstone Television with a view to production in Spring 2005. Greg Brenman and Tiger Aspect managing director Andrew Zein will exec produce.
- 11/25/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Julianne Nicholson has been tapped as the female lead opposite Jonathan Cake in "Marriage", Steven Bochco's drama series for HBO set to debut next year, while Oscar-nominated actress Jill Clayburgh is set to join the project in a recurring role. "Marriage" -- created, written and executive produced by Bochco and Alison Cross -- is described as an intimate look at the life of a husband and wife (Cake, Nicholson) five years into their marriage. The show, which has an eight-episode order, is set entirely in the couple's apartment. Clayburgh will play Nicholson's mother in the series produced by Steven Bochco Prods. and HBO. Nicholson co-starred in CBS' medical drama "Presidio Med" earlier this season. She also spent a year on Fox's dramedy "Ally McBeal". The actress, who recently wrapped Pariah's feature "Seeing Other People", is repped by CAA and manager Courtney Kivowitz. Clayburgh received lead actress Oscar nominations in 1979 and '80 for "An Unmarried Woman" and "Starting Over". She most recently co-starred on NBC's comedy series "Leap of Faith". She is repped by ICM and manager Mary Goldberg.
- 5/21/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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