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Breaking Bad And Homeland Win WGA Awards

Writers Guild of America award Breaking Bad and Homeland.

As the seemingly never ending awards season continues apace it was the turn of the Writers Guild of America yesterday to award their peers.

The big winner of the night was Breaking Bad which scooped the top award of Best Television Drama Series. Featuring a tour de force performance by Bryan Cranston as Walter White, a chemistry teacher who raises the money to pay for his lung cancer treatment by dealing drugs. The show also won the award for Episodic Drama for the episode Box Cutter by Vince Gilligan, a joint award that also went to Homeland writer Henry Bromell for the episode The Good Soldier.

Homeland, which started on Channel 4 last night in the UK, added to its tally by securing the New Series award. It features Claire Danes as a CIA agent out to prove that an American Soldier (Damien Lewis) has been "turned" by al-Qaeda.

Modern Family continued its awards dominance in the Comedy Series category and for the episode Caught in the Act written by Steven Levitan and Jeffrey Richman.

In the Long Form categories Cinema Verite grabbed the original award and Too Big to Fail won for adapted.

DRAMA SERIES
Winner: Breaking Bad
Boardwalk Empire
Game of Thrones
The Good Wife
Homeland

COMEDY SERIES
Winner: Modern Family
30 Rock
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Louie
Parks & Recreation

EPISODIC DRAMA
Joint Winners: Box Cutter - Breaking Bad
The Good Soldier - Homeland
A Dangerous Maid - Boardwalk Empire
The Age of Reason - Boardwalk Empire
End Times - Breaking Bad
Just Let Go - Dexter

EPISODIC COMEDY
Winner: Caught in the Act - Modern Family
Goodbye Michael, Part 2 - The Office
Mother's Day - Modern Family
Object Impermanence - Weeds
PDA - The Office
Queen of Jordan - 30 Rock

NEW SERIES
Winner: Homeland
Game of Thrones
New Girl
The Killing
Episodes

LONG FORM – ORIGINAL
Winner: Cinema Verite

LONG FORM – ADAPTED
Winner: Too Big To Fail
Mildred Pierce