Writers Polled On Best TV Series Ever

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Following up on its 101 Greatest Screenplays list asssembled back in 2006, the Writers Guilds of America West and East are polling their members on the Top 101 Best Written TV Series.

Starting Tuesday, writers can offer up their favorites, with the only caveats that they have to be scripted series, written in English, have aired in the U.S. and featured an onscreen writing credit.

Also ineligible are individual episodes, specials, TV movies and movies of the week, or miniseries with fewer than six hours of programming. So, That Certain Summer is not eligible, but Roots is.

The results will be announced in the fall.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.