The nominees for the 2013 Writers Guild Awards have been announced and AMC’s Breaking Bad is the most-nominated series with a total of five nods (including best drama series). ABC’s Modern Family, meanwhile, leads the comedy pack, with four nominations. ToT favorite Sons of Anarchy is a noteworthy and unconscinable miss in the Drama category, maybe the Guild is afraid of Curt Sutter after watching his performance the the SOA season 5 finale.
New series making the WGA’s ist include HBO’s Girls, Veep and The Newsroom, ABC’s Nashville and Fox’s The Mindy Project, while ABC’s now-defunct One Life to Live is in the Daytime Drama race.
The major categories are as follows; a complete list of nominations is at WGA.org. Awards will be handed out Feb. 17, 2013 in ceremonies held simultaneously in Los Angeles and New York City.
DRAMA SERIES
- Boardwalk Empire
- Breaking Bad
- Game of Thrones
- Homeland
- Mad Men
DRAMA | EPISODIC
- Breaking Bad, “Buyout” (Jesse and Mike quit the meth business, infuriating Walt)
- Breaking Bad, “Dead Freight” (After Walt & Co. steal from a cargo train, Todd shoots their only witness)
- Breaking Bad, “Fifty-One” (As Walt celebrates his birthday, Skyler hopes for his death)
- Homeland, “New Car Smell” (Carrie meets Brody at a hotel bar, then follows him to his room)
- Mad Men, “The Other Woman” (Joan beds the Jaguar guy, Peggy quits SCDP)
- Breaking Bad, “Say My Name” (The DEA closes in on Mike)
COMEDY SERIES
- 30 Rock
- Girls
- Louie
- Modern Family
- Parks and Recreation
COMEDY | EPISODIC
- Parks and Recreation, “The Debate” (Leslie faces off against Bobby Newport)
- Episodes, “Episode 9″ (Season 2 finale; Merc is honored the day he is fired)
- 30 Rock, “Leap Day” (Leap Day is presented as a widely celebrated holiday)
- Modern Family, “Little Bo Bleep” (Claire preps for her debate; Lily has an F-ing problem)
- Modern Family, “Mistery Date” (Matthew Broderick guests as a new gym buddy of Phil’s)
- Modern Family, “Virgin Territory” (Phil learns that Hayley is not so “innocent”)
NEW SERIES
- Girls, HBO
- The Mindy Project, Fox
- Nashville, ABC
- The Newsroom, HBO
- Veep, HBO
COMEDY/VARIETY
- The Colbert Report
- Conan
- The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
- Jimmy Kimmel Live
- Key & Peele
- Portlandia
- Real Time With Bill Maher
- Saturday Night Live
LONG FORM (ORIGINAL)
- Hatfields & McCoys
- Hemingway & Gelhorn
- Political Animals
DAYTIME DRAMA
- Days of Our Lives
- One Life to Live
- The Young and the Restless