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Days of our Lives Receives WGA Nomination for Daytime Drama Series
UPDATED: On Wednesday, the nominations were unveiled for the 75th annual Writers Guild Awards to be held on Sunday, March 5 at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.
Writers Guild of America West and Writers Guild of America East announced nominations for outstanding achievement in television, new media, news, radio/audio, and promotional writing during 2022.
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In the category of Daytime Drama, only Days of our Lives was nominated, thus DAYS becomes the automatic winner as the sole nominee.
The nominated and winning DAYS writing team consists of: Head Writer Ron Carlivati; Writers Lorraine Broderick, Jazmen Darnell Brown, Joanna Cohen, Carolyn Culliton, Richard Culliton, Cheryl Davis, Kirk Doering, Christopher Dunn, Jamey Giddens, David Kreizman, Ryan Quan, Dave Ryan, Katherine D. Schock.
DAYS head writer, Ron Carlivati shared in a statement: “My team and I are thrilled to be nominated for the 2023 Writers Guild Award for Daytime. We submitted three scripts from the storyline about Craig’s late-in-life coming out, the impact it had on his wife, Nancy, and of course, his ill-fated romance with the ever-scheming Leo. We felt that these episodes were a good representation of what Days of our Lives does best: high-stakes family drama with a comedic twist.”
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The episodes DAYS submitted for competition were #14320 which aired 4/19/2022, #14321 which aired 4/20/2022 and show #14331 that aired 5/4/2022. They also featured the disastrous double wedding of Leo and Craig and Xander and Gwen, and its fallout.
To view all the WGA nominees click here.
So, what do you think about DAYS being the only entry and thus becoming the winning writing team at this year’s WGA Awards? What do you think of the storyline chosen to represent the show for competition? Comment below.
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Why didn’t the other shows submit? Days is the worst written of the remaining four shows. Yes, Y&R is dull, but Days is often inane and insipid in its writing choices. GH is the best written of the four shows but frustratingly it keeps losing the Emmy – I suspect they are submitting the wrong episodes. Since the panelists don’t actually watch the four shows they vote based just on a few episodes and not the whole entire year’s worth of storylines. Individual scenes can be really well written but the overall writing can be very poor – that for… Read more »
What does this tell you soap fans? They know their writing stinks ! Sad
Why didn’t the other shows enter?
I do enjoy Days the most so congratulations!
Good for days! I have been loving it the last few weeks! The trick scenes are getting lame though we’re they act like they are going to confess but then they don’t. They use it way to much
I defy anyone to watch the episodes Days submitted and find anything even close to that much fun. They deserved the win.
Speaking of the current stories on Days…. here’s a random theory that popped into a Devil’s head yesterday. Orpheus somehow manages to give Lucas a bottle of whiskey in prison. Or did he…… Would Orpheus be sadistic enough to throw booze in the face of an alcoholic who just found out his mother “died”? Sure he would. But Orpheus is also the type of psychopath who would hide the cure for his homemade virus in plain sight. Lucas did the right thing for himself and handed over the “booze” to his brother, SpaceEgg Rex. I hope Rex tests the contents… Read more »
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Zach Tinker Joins the Cast of CBS ‘Fire Country’
Zach Tinker (Sonny, Days and Fenmore, Y&R) has joined the cast of CBS’ freshmen drama Fire Country. Primetime viewers previously saw him on the season premiere of ABC’s Big Sky.
According to Deadline: Tinker will make his series debut this weekend in a special episode that airs immediately following the AFC Championship game on Sunday night, January 29th.
In Fire Country, Tinker takes on the role of Collin, who is said to be a humble, charming, and talented probie firefighter. In addition, it turns out the Collin is the son of a firefighting hero and he now is trying to live up to dear old dad’s name.
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The series is centered around young convict Bode Donovan (Max Thieriot) who joins a firefighting program that returns him to his small Northern California hometown, where he and other inmates work alongside elite firefighters to extinguish massive blazes across the region.
Will you be checking out Zach in his new role on CBS’ Fire Country? Comment below.
Breaking News
DAYS and Y&R Alum, Quinn Redeker, Dead at 86
There was yet another death in the soap opera family at the end of 2022, that is just coming to light today. Quinn Redeker, who played Alex Marshall on Days of our Lives (1979-1987) and Rex Sterling and Nick Reed on The Young and the Restless died on December 20th from natural causes, according to his family. Quinn was 86-years-old.
Redeker was twice nominated for a Daytime Emmy in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series category for his work on Y&R in 1989 and 1990.
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Y&R viewers will remember Rex was a great-love of Katherine Chancellor’s (Jeanne Cooper) and the dad of both, Danny Romalotti and Gina Roma. He first appeared in that role on the CBS soap opera back in 1987. However, years earlier, Redeker appeared in 1979 as Nick Reed, the abusive father of Nikki.
Among Redeker’s other most notable work was that as a screenwriter for the 1978 Oscar-nominated film classic, The Deer Hunter starring Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken and Meryl Streep. Quinn was credited for the original screenplay along with Deric Washburn, Louis A. Garfinkle and Michael Cimino.
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In addition to his roles on television including on: Starsky and Hutch, Six Million Dollar Man, Kojak, and Barnaby Jones to name a few, Redeker appeared in the films: The Electric Horseman, The Candidate and Ordinary People.
He is survived by his children Brennen, Arianne, Glaen, and Quinn Jr., and two grandchildren.
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