It was a busy night for the gang behind some of America's top TV shows, as they headed out to do business at the Writer's Guild of America Awards. Girls, Breaking Bad and Mad Men were just some of the winners at the ceremony, which honours those hardworking scribes who come up with all the best one liners.
Lena Dunham's awards roll continued as Girls added a WGA to it's Golden Globe heavy shelf, fending off the likes of Nashville (the show about southern fried Taylor Swift and an aging country singer) to come home with the gong for New Series. It was, however, trumped by FX's comedy drama Louie (comedian stars as himself in fictional factual drama.. bit like Episodes), which walked away with the award for comedy-drama.
Mad Men finally got itself back in the frame, taking home an award for outstanding single episode of a drama: We all wept a bit watching 'The Other Woman', y'know, that awesome episode in series 5 where Peggy takes a stand. We won't give it away for those who haven't seen it yet.
Modern Family got the gong for comedy episode, with 'Virgin Territory' proving a favourite among the critics. Nothing says comedy like watching Phil attempt to deal with the fact that his daughter's slept with her boyfriend. Totes awks.
And of course, Breaking Bad won the award for Drama Series. No surprises there as the AMC show, which is now in it's FINAL season *sob*, has been superb from day one. Meanwhile, the Golden Globe winning Game Change (Julianne Moore does Sarah Palin), also took home a gong.
Get the full list of winners right here:
Drama Series
Boardwalk Empire
Breaking Bad - WINNER
Game of Thrones
Homeland
Mad Men
Drama (Episodic)
Breaking Bad - 'Buyout'
Breaking Bad - 'Dead Freight'
Breaking Bad - 'Fifty-One'
Breaking Bad - 'Say My Name'
Homeland - 'New Car Smell'
Mad Men - 'The Other Woman' - WINNER
Comedy Series
30 Rock
Girls
Louie - WINNER
Modern Family
Parks and Recreation
Comedy (Episodic)
Parks and Recreation - 'The Debate'
Episodes - 'Episode 9'
30 Rock - 'Leap Day'
Modern Family - 'Little Bo Bleep'
Modern Family - 'Mistery Date'
Modern Family - 'Virgin Territory' - WINNER
New Series
Girls - WINNER
The Mindy Project
Nashville
The Newsroom
Veep
Comedy/Variety
The Colbert Report
Conan
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Key & Peele
Portlandia - WINNER
Real Time with Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live
Long Form (Adapted)
Coma: Nights 1 and 2
Game Change - WINNER
Long Form (Original)
Hatfields & McCoys - WINNER
Hemingway & Gelhorn
Political Animals
Daytime Drama
Days of Our Lives
One Life to Live
The Young and the Restless - WINNER