WGA Lobbies TV Academy To Keep Writing Categories In Main Emmys Telecast, Urges Scribes To “Express Your Feelings” About “Regrettable” Decision
deadline.comThe Writers Guild of America is doubling down on plans to cut the number of writing awards given out on the main Emmys telecast.
The guild has urged writers to “express your feelings” about the “regrettable” decision to remove the Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series/Special from the main primetime awards.
In a memo to members, the WGA said that the Television Academy made the decision “without any justification or defensible reason”.
It comes after the Emmys unveiled the category breakdown earlier this month. Later that day, the WGA told Deadline that the decision to reduce the number of writing categories on the main telecast from four to three was “misguided given the essential role writers play in the creative process of variety series and generating value for this industry”.
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