Showrunners to TV Acad: Don’t Cut Us from Emmys

The Writers Guild is stepping up its protests against Emmy’s planned changes.

 

The Guild just issued a letter signed by a slew of TV showrunners blasting the TV Academy for its decision to cut some key writing awards out of next month’s telecast and imploring the Academy to change its mind. The statement comes 30 minutes before Emmy producer Don Mischer is set to meet the press.

 

"Medium" creator Glen Gordon Caron, on stage right now at the CBS press tour, explained why he signed the letter.

 

"Shows are written," he said. "A big part of a show’s success or failure (is writing). It seems short-sighted.:

 

Here’s the statement, and the signers:

We, the undersigned showrunners and executive producers of television’s current line-up of programs, oppose the Academy of Television Arts and Science’s decision to remove writing awards from the live telecast. This decision conveys a fundamental understatement of the importance of writers in the creation of television programming and a symbolic attack on the primacy of writing in our industry. We implore ATAS to restore these awards to their rightful place in the live telecast of the 2009 Emmy Awards.

Carter Covington, 10 Things I Hate About You
David Fury, 24
Alex Gansa, 24
Evan Katz, 24
Robert Carlock, 30 Rock
Michelle Nader, 100 Questions
Rebecca Sinclair, 90210
Claudia Lonow, Accidentally on Purpose
Mike Barker, American Dad
Jeff Melvoin, Army Wives
Ronald D. Moore, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Virtuality
Victor Fresco, Better Off Ted
Bill Prady, Big Bang Theory
Mike Kelley, The Beautiful Life, Swingtown
Mark V. Olsen, Big Love
Will Scheffer, Big Love
Hart Hanson, Bones
Stephen Nathan, Bones
Vince Gilligan, Breaking Bad
Molly Newman, Brothers & Sisters
Matt Nix, Burn Notice
Tom Kapinos, Californication
Jane Espenson, Caprica
Andrew W. Marlowe, Castle
Chris Fedak, Chuck
Matt Miller, Chuck
Scott Rosenbaum, Chuck
Robert Munic, The Cleaner
Rich Appel, The Cleveland Show
Jennifer Johnson, Cold Case
Greg Plageman, Cold Case
Garrett Donovan, Community
Neil Goldman, Community
Ed Bernero, Criminal Minds
Carol Mendelsohn, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Naren Shankar, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Peter Lenkov, CSI: New York
Pam Veasey, CSI: New York
Rick Eid, Dark Blue
Doug Yung, Dark Blue
Matt Berry, Desperate Housewives
Marc Cherry, Desperate Housewives
Bob Daily, Desperate Housewives
Clyde Phillips, Dexter
Melissa Rosenberg, Dexter
Charles H. Eglee, Dexter
Maggie Friedman, Eastwick
David S. Rosenthal, Eastwick
Doug Ellin, Entourage
Thania St. John, Eureka
Jill Franklyn, Failure to Fly
Steve Callaghan, Family Guy
David A. Goodman, Family Guy
Mark Hentemann, Family Guy
Seth McFarlane, Family Guy, The Cleveland Show, American Dad
Chris Sheridan, Family Guy
Marc Guggenheim, Flash Forward
Luke Reiter, The Forgotten
Jason Katims, Friday Night Lights, Parenthood
Jeff Pinkner, Fringe
J.H. Wyman, Fringe
David X. Cohen, Futurama
Ira Ungerleider, Gary Unmarried
Michelle King, The Good Wife
John Altschuler, The Goode Family
Dave Krinsky, The Goode Family
Patrick Sean Smith, Greek
Shonda Rhimes, Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice
Steve Peterman, Hannah Montana
Michael Poryes, Hannah Montana
Glen Mazzara, HawthoRNe
Adam Armus, Heroes
Garnett Lerner, House
David Shore, House
Brad Kern, Human Target
Jon Steinberg, Human Target
Colette Burson, Hung
Dmitry Lipkin, Hung
Michael B. Kaplan, I’m In the Band
Neal Baer, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Rene Balcer, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Walon Green, Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Samuel Baum, Lie to Me
Shawn Ryan, Lie To Me
Daniel Voll, Lie to Me
Janet Leahy, Life UneXpected
Kathleen McGhee-Anderson, Lincoln Heights
Carlton Cuse, Lost
Adam Horowitz, Lost
Edward Kitsis, Lost
Damon Lindelof, Lost
Matt Weiner, Mad Men
Holly Sorensen, Make It or Break It
Glenn Gordon Caron, Medium
Todd Slavkin, Melrose Place
Darren Swimmer, Melrose Place
Michael Royce, Men of a Certain Age
Gretchen Berg, Mercy
Aaron Harberts, Mercy
Liz Heldens, Mercy
Jeffrey Lieber, Miami Trauma
Steven Maeda, Miami Trauma
Eileen Heisler, The Middle
DeAnn Heline, The Middle
Steve Levitan, Modern Family
Shane Brennan, NCIS; NCIS: Los Angeles
Jeff Astrof, The New Adventures of Old Christine
Kari Lizer, The New Adventures of Old Christine
Andrew Dettman, Numb3rs
Ken Sanzel, Numb3rs
Greg Daniels, The Office, Parks & Recreation
Paul Lieberstein, The Office
Michael Schur, The Office, Parks & Recreation
David Hudgins, Past Life

 

Ellen Kreamer, Plummer

Jon Cowan, Private Practice

Stan Zimmerman, Rita Rocks

Michael Rauch, Royal Pains, Love Monkey

Shaun Cassidy, Ruby & the Rockits

Marsh McCall, Ruby & the Rockits

Tom Hertz, Rules of Engagement

Matthew Carlson, Sons of Tucson

Nancy Miller, Saving Grace

Neil Goldman, Scrubs

Al Jean, The Simpsons

Matt Selman, The Simpsons

Kurt Sutter, Sons of Anarchy

Michael Feldman, Sonny with a Chance

Steve Marmel, Sonny with a Chance

Steve DeKnight, Spartacus: Blood & Sand

Ann Biderman, Southland

John Wells, Southland

Danny Kallis, Suite Life on Deck

Eric Kripke, Supernatural

James Duff, The Closer

Jay Kogen, The Troop

Thomas W. Lynch, The Troop

Carol Barbee, Three Rivers

Eric Overmyer, Treme

Michael Hirst, The Tudors

Susan Beavers, Two and a Half Men

Lee Aronsohn, Two and a Half Men, Big Bang Theory

Jill Soloway, United States of Tara

Jeffrey Bell, V

Scott Peters, V

Jack Kenny, Warehouse 13

David Simkins, Warehouse 13

Roberto Benabib, Weeds

Jenji Kohan, Weeds

Todd J. Greenwald, Wizards of Waverly Place

Peter Murietta, Wizards of Waverly Place

Matt Dearborn, Zeke & Luther

Tom Burkhard, Zeke and Luther

Patric M. Verrone

John F. Bowman

David Chase

David Milch

Phil Rosenthal

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

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