WGA Awards TV Nominations: ‘Yellowjackets’, ‘Hacks’, ‘Loki’, ‘Only Murders In The Building’ Join Usual Suspects On List

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The Writers Guild of America revealed nominations Thursday in television, new media, news, radio/audio and promotional categories for the 2022 WGA Awards, which are scheduled to take place Sunday, March 20 hosted by the WGA West and WGA East.Nominees in the marquee TV categories include reigning Comedy Series winners Ted Lasso from Apple TV+, with newcomers to the list including several shows with multiple noms: HBO Max’s Emmy winner Hacks, Showtime’s Yellowjackets, Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building and Disney+’s Marvel series Loki.

That group along with FX’s Reservation Dogs comprise the awards’ New Series nominees list.The wide-ranging list also includes noms for Netflix’s Maid and Midnight Mass, HBO’s critically lauded The White Lotus and Emmy winner Mare of Easttown, Amazon Prime Video’s The Underground Railroad and Disney+’s WandaVision in the longform categories.Other notables: noms for Taylor Sheridan’s pilot script for Yellowstone spinoff 1883; for Saturday Night Live as well as SNL‘s head writer Michael Che’s standup special That Damn Micahel Che; the writers of the final season of Conan scoring a nom; as did Jeopardy!, with a writers list that includes the onetime announced Alex Trebek replacement Mike Richards.Here’s the full list of nominees, with the motion picture screenplay noms coming January 27.DRAMA SERIESThe Handmaid’s Tale Written by Yahlin Chang, Nina Fiore, Dorothy Fortenberry, Jacey Heldrich, John Herrera, Bruce Miller, Aly Monroe, Kira Snyder, Eric Tuchman; HuluLoki Written by Bisha K.

Ali, Elissa Karasik, Eric Martin, Michael Waldron; Disney+The Morning Show Written by Jeff Augustin, Brian Chamberlayne, Kerry Ehrin, Kristen Layden, Erica Lipez, Justin Matthews, Adam Milch, Stacy Osei-Kuffour,