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With a potential strike on the horizon, the Writers Guild Awards were handed out Sunday in ceremonies at the Edison Ballroom in New York and Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

Awards magnets Severance, The White Lotus, and The Bear continued to secure big awards.

Better Call Saul, Hacks, and Undone were also represented.

Check out the full list of winners below.

Drama Series

Andor

Better Call Saul

The Crown

Severance — Winner

Yellowjackets

Comedy Series

Abbott Elementary

Barry

The Bear — Winner

Hacks

Only Murders in the Building

New Series

Abbott Elementary

Andor

Bad Sisters

The Bear

Severance — Winner

Limited Series

The Dropout

Fleishman Is in Trouble

Pam & Tommy

The Staircase

The White Lotus — Winner

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TV & New Media Motion Pictures

Heart of the Matter (Hallmark Channel)

Honor Society (Paramount+) — Winner

Ray Donovan: The Movie (Showtime)

Torn Hearts (Epix)

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Sunday’s 75th Writers Guild of America Awards will conclude the guild season (and a four-guild kudos weekend). Will they portend good things to come at the Oscars for the winners?

“Everything Everywhere All at Once,” written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, and “Women Talking,” written by Sarah Polley, are projected to win the Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay prizes, respectively. The caveat, of course, is that neither is facing its top Oscar competition at WGA due to the guild’s eligibility requirements. Martin McDonagh‘s “The Banshees of Inisherin” script, which won the Golden Globe and BAFTA, is Awol in original, as is Oscar nominee “Triangle of Sadness.” And BAFTA’s adapted screenplay champ “All Quiet on the Western Front,” written by Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell, is ineligible, along with Oscar nominee “Living.”

Over on the small screen side of things, “Better Call Saul...

Elsbeth, the Good Wife spinoff starring Carrie Preston, has added two more to its cast.

Wendell Pierce (The Wire, Suits) and Carra Patterson (The Arrangement) will star opposite Preston in the CBS pilot, our sister site Deadline reports.

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Pierce will take on the role of Captain Wagner,...

Exclusive: Wendell Pierce and Carra Patterson have been tapped as leads opposite Carrie Preston in the CBS drama pilot, Elsbeth. This completes the series regular cast for the pilot, from The Good Wife and The Good Fight EPs Robert and Michelle King, which centers on Preston’s character of Elsbeth Tascioni that was introduced on The Good Wife and also appeared on spinoff The Good Fight.

In Elsbeth, whose pilot was written by Robert and Michelle King and will be directed by Robert King, after her successful career in Chicago, Elsbeth Tascioni (Preston), an astute but unconventional attorney, utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD.

Pierce plays Captain Wagner, a New York police Captain who owns every room that he enters. Experienced and charismatic, Wagner is the toast of the department.

Patterson plays Officer Kaya Blanke, a stoic, ethical New...

Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King’s affection for Carrie Preston — and her fan favorite character of Elsbeth Tascioni — laid the groundwork for the just-announced spinoff.

As we reported Tuesday, CBS has handed a pilot order to Elsbeth, a one-hour drama centered on the scatterbrained but brilliant lawyer that Preston played on both The Good Wife and its first offshoot The Good Fight.

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“This should be fun,...

CBS is looking ahead to the 2023-24 TV season and beyond.

The network has announced details of its development slate for next season, and one of the exciting projects is a third entry in the Good Wife universe.

The potential series would feature Carrie Preston's fan-favorite lawyer Elsbeth Tascioni.

"After her successful career in Chicago, Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney, utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD," reads the official synopsis.

The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King will write the pilot, which will be directed by Robert King.

While Preston first appeared in the role on the original CBS series, she also had a five-episode arc on the recently wrapped spinoff The Good Fight.

When that show ended last year on Paramount+, there were rumblings about another series in the universe.

CBS also picked up...

The Good Wife fan favorite Elsbeth Tascioni is moving to New York City as the star of her very own show.

CBS has handed a pilot order to Elsbeth, a spinoff starring Carrie Preston as the seemingly scatterbrained but brilliant lawyer that was first introduced on The Good Wife, TVLine has learned.

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In the potential series — which is being targeted for the...

Nominees have been announced for the 75th annual Writers Guild Awards, to be held on Sunday, March 5 in concurrent ceremonies at the Edison Ballroom in New York and Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

In addition to usual suspects like Better Call Saul, The Crown, Hacks and Barry, this year’s nominees include first-time contenders such as Andor, Severance, Yellowjackets, Abbott Elementary and The Bear.

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The Good Fight looks to go out with a bang. Literally. Producers Robert King and Michelle King’s (Evil) satiric, absurdist and topical legal series heads into a sixth and final season in which Reddick & Associates attempts to rebrand itself while civil violence erupts around them. For the drama’s last hurrah, the stellar Andre Braugher joins the talented cast to bring this much-praised spinoff of the also top-notch The Good Wife to a fiery finale. The double Emmy winner plays Ri’chard (formerly Richard) Lane, a self-described “flamboyantly” confidant rainmaker who is set on revitalizing the firm so that it “will be on the tip of everyone’s tongue” in Chicago. Braugher shares what’s on the season’s docket. Did you always want to work on The Good Fight, a magnet for TV and Broadway’s best? Andre Braugher: I was in California during The Good Wife and...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the Evil Season 3 finale “The Demon of the End.”] After a couple of insane finale cliffhangers — what else would you expect from Evil? — the wait for Season 4 is going to be long. Sure, we’re wondering what the future holds now that Leland (Michael Emerson) used Kristen’s (Katja Herbers) missing egg and they’re going to be parents as well as what’s going on at the end there with Andy (Patrick Brammall) and Dr. Boggs (Kurt Fuller) gathering with the demons (and baby) in the under-construction addition to the Bouchard house. But there are also a few other lingering threads at the end of the season. We turned to creators Robert and Michelle King to get answers in addition to their teases about what’s next after those cliffhangers. What can you say about Season 4? Anything about when it picks up, the threads to keep in mind, a tone?...

Warning: This post contains spoilers from Evil‘s Season 3 finale.

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At the end of Evil‘s Season 3 finale, Kristen uses new intel to track her missing egg to a mysterious address… and winds up at Df Global Solutions. If the name sounds familiar, that’s because it’s the company whose stock caused people to be pursued by a shadowy, malevolent form in the previous episode.

This Evil review contains spoilers.

Evil Season 3 Episode 7

Evil, season 3 episode 7 “The Demon of Cults” is a fully immersive and self-conscious dive into almost everything the series is about. We get the conspiracies, possessions, brainwashing, love bombing, and the promise of a snippet of Sister Andrea’s (Andrea Martin) hair. David (Mike Colter) stands up the entity. Kristen (Katja Herbers) gets an inside look into clandestine operations. Ben(Aasif Mandvi) has his come-to-Jesus moment.

The case starts at a book-signing, the root of all evil. Dr. Paul, an exit counselor with 500 successful interventions under his ever-widening belt, doesn’t believe in things like demonic possession, but has come across a case which scares him silly. Wanna look? The glee with which Dr. Paul invites David and the others to peek in on his ward, Owen, is disconcerting enough to follow anywhere. By the time the team gets to the cheap...

You are in for a treat this week! Three excellent new series begin, and you are going to want to mark your schedule accordingly.

Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin leans heavily on horror on HBO Max, Peacock’s The Resort successfully merges an emotional story with a thrilling mystery, and Surface works to twist your mind into knots before sharply unraveling them.

See what else we recommend below!

Sunday, July 24

Evil (Paramount+)

Evil is circling back to the Rsm Fertility Clinic story, and it’s going to get dark in here!

You can tell we’re heading into the final episodes of this epic season because it’s really hitting the fan.

Get your first look at “The Demon of Cults.”

This Sunday another episode of Evil. Several things happen: some good, some bad. The Entity is back. #evilseries pic.twitter.com/sBUE0Ynv7d

— Robert King (@RKing618) July...

A group of 200 top writers, producers and directors have signed an open letter backed by the Brady gun violence organization that includes a pledge to incorporate gun safety best practices into their shows and to scrutinize the use of firearms in storytelling.

The list of signatories (click here to see the letter) includes Shonda Rhimes, Bill Lawrence, Jimmy Kimmel and the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” writing staff, Michelle and Robert King, Judd Apatow, Steve Levitan, David Shore, Matt Nix, Dan Lin and Jenni Konner. The letter frames gun safety an urgent social issue for the industry to embrace, in the same way that intentional depictions of such topics as cigarette smoking, drunk driving, the use of seat belts, marriage equality and LGBT rights helped change cultural attitudes and save lives.

“As America’s storytellers, our goal is primarily to entertain, but we also acknowledge that stories have the power to effect change.

One of the consistent strengths of “Evil” has been its constant acknowledgment that faith exists in an untold number of forms. Whether taken in relation to a codified religion, a belief in the scientific principles, an outright rejection of both, or none of the above, this is a show with clergy collars and therapist couches that isn’t only confined to one or the other.

Enter Season 3, where the show ventures further into the idea that faith also applies to who becomes worthy of trust and allegiance. Even with a few extra words that don’t have to be slipped by Standards and Practices, the core “Evil” mission remains the same. The wonder trio of psychologist Kristen Bouchard (Katja Herbers), newly ordained priest and accomplished Church assessor David Acosta (Mike Colter), and resident tech expert scientist Ben Shakir (Aasif Mandvi) are still investigating instances of the unusual at the request of local Catholic officials.

Michelle and Robert King created Evil. What an epitaph that will some day make. Future generations will look back at Paramount+’s savior series with accusatory looks. As their occult science procedural creation moves into season 3, it appears the evil Kings won’t even get a day of rest. The show’s newly ordained priest couldn’t make it through his first sanctified day without succumbing to temptation, and his trained skeptics are enablers. This is why bad things happen to good people. It’s the Kings’ fault. They brought Evil into the world.

Evil follows Father David Acosta (Mike Colter), Dr. Kristen Bouchard (Katja Herbers), and Ben Shakir (Aasif Mandvi), a team of spiritual investigators who scrutinize paranormal occurrences to determine if they are miraculous, diabolical, or the result of faulty plumbing. They work for the Catholic Church, and answer to a wide range of higher powers.

Evil season...

When Evil returns on Sunday, Kristen and David are going to have one hell of a time figuring out what they are to each other in the aftermath of that Season 2 finale kiss.

And don’t think that the Paramount+ supernatural drama is going to draw things out for long, either. “We are going to see what happens right after” that pivotal moment in David’s bedroom, Katja Herbers explains at the top of our Season 3 preview video above.

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In the Season 2 finale of Paramount+’s Evil, Katja Herbers‘ Kristen confessed to newly ordained priest David (Mike Colters) what viewers had known for quite some time: that she’d murdered serial killer Orson LeRoux and gotten away with it. (Read a recap.) Here, TVLine Dream Emmy nominee Herbers and director Alethea Jones break down Kristen’s catharsis and how it morphed into something entirely different when she and David kissed for the first time immediately after the confession.

Katja Herbers | As any actor, or probably any person, to have to do this, you draw from your absolute worst. How did you sound?...

On this date in...

1984: Bert learned she had a blood clot in her foot on Guiding Light. Meanwhile, Nola has a "Wizard of Oz" fantasy.

1993: Radio writer and producer Carlton E. Morse passed away in Sacramento, Calif. at age 91. Morse wrote, directed, and produced the popular radio soap One Man's Family.

1999: The original Melrose Place aired its last episode.

Celebrating a birthday today are:

Steve Carlson (ex-Jeffrey, Days Of Our Lives; ex-Josh, A New Day In Eden; ex-Gary, General Hospital; ex-Mark, The Young And The Restless; ex-Sean, Santa Barbara) - 68

Priscilla Presley (ex-Jenna, Dallas) - 66...