Writers Guild Awards: True Detective, Louie, The Good Wife Among Winners

The 2015 Writers Guild Awards in television turned out to be Good and True.

HBO's True Detective picked up two WGA trophies (for Best Drama Series and Best New Series), while The Good Wife landed a trophy for "Best Episodic Drama" — honoring an individual episode — for "The Last Call," the hour written by EPs Robert and Michelle King that followed the shocking death of Josh Charles' Will Gardner.

On the comedy side, FX's Louie won Best Comedy Series and Best Episodic Comedy (for the widely lauded "So Did the Fat Lady" episode written by creator and series star Louis C.K.).

Other winners included:

LONG FORM – ORIGINAL

Lifetime's Deliverance Creek

LONG FORM – ADAPTED

HBO's Olive Kitteridge

ANIMATION

Fox's The Simpsons ("Brick Like Me")

COMEDY/VARIETY (INCLUDING TALK) – SERIES

HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

COMEDY / VARIETY – MUSIC, AWARDS, TRIBUTES – SPECIALS

NBC's 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards

QUIZ AND AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

NBC's Hollywood Game Night

DAYTIME DRAMA

ABC's General Hospital

CHILDREN'S SCRIPT – EPISODIC & SPECIALS

Nickelodeon's Haunted Hathaways ("Haunted Heartthrob")

DOCUMENTARY SCRIPT – CURRENT EVENTS

PBS' Frontline ("United States of Secrets: The Program [Part One]")

DOCUMENTARY SCRIPT – OTHER THAN CURRENT EVENTS

PBS' Frontline ("League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis")

NEWS – REGULARLY SCHEDULED, BULLETIN, OR BREAKING REPORT

ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer ("Nelson Mandela: A Man Who Changed the World")

TV NEWS SCRIPT – ANALYSIS, FEATURE, OR COMMENTARY

CBS' 60 Minutes ("Nowhere to Go")

SHORT FORM NEW MEDIA – ORIGINAL

helpingyoumaintain.com's High Maintenance ("Episode 113: Rachel")

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