The Writers Guild of America honors its own

Actors Zooey Deschanel ("New Girl") and Joel McHale ("Community") hosted the Writers Guild Awards Sunday night in Hollywood.

The cool thing about the Writers Guild Awards is that it really honors the movies and the shows that everyday people root for and enjoy.

For proof, just look at this year’s new series winner, Showtime’s “Homeland.” This is a highly-rated show that the SAG Awards omitted just last month but the WGA celebrated Sunday night in Hollywood.

Other winners of note include Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” for best original screenplay and “The Descendants” for best adapted screenplay.

ABC’s “General Hospital” won the Writers Guild Award for best daytime drama. After the win, one of the soap’s writers, Karen Harris, came back stage where reporters asked her about the future of “General Hospital.”

 It is ABC’s last soap. But Harris said she’s not too concerned that Katie Couric’s talk show will take over the soap’s timeslot, leading to cancelation.

‘”The Revolution” (which replaced “One Life to Live”) has tanked and its our hope that Katie Couric’s show will replace it,” Harris said. “I mean you hear rumors but we haven’t been canceled.”

“The Revolution” has only drawn 1.52 million viewers, which is 43 percent less than what “One Life to Live” averaged.  
 

Here’s a complete list of the night’s winners:

Original Screenplay: “Midnight in Paris”

Adapted Screenplay: “The Descendants”

Documentary Screenplay: “Better This World”

Drama Series: “Breaking Bad” (AMC)

Comedy Series: “Modern Family” (ABC)

New Series: “Homeland” (Showtime)

Episodic Drama: (tie) “Breaking Bad” (AMC) and “Homeland” (Showtime)

Episodic Comedy: “Modern Family” (ABC)

Long Form Original: “Cinema Verite” (HBO)

Long Form Adapted: “Too Big to Fail” (HBO)

Animation: “The Simpsons” (Fox)

Comedy Variety: “The Colbert Report” (Comedy Central)

Comedy Variety — Awards: “After the Academy Awards” (ABC)

Daytime Drama: “General Hospital” (ABC)

Children’s Episodic: “Supah Ninjas” (Nickelodeon)

Documentary Current Events: “Frontline” (PBS)

Documentary (Other): “Frontline” (PBS)

News: “Frontline” (PBS)

News Analysis: ”Frontline”

Radio Documentary: ”2010 Year in Review” (CBS Radio News)

Radio News: “Portraits of a Terrorist” (CBS Radio News)

Radio News Analysis: “Justice in Time of Terror” (CBS Radio News)

On-Air Promotion: “Fairytale” (NBC News)

Television Graphic Animation: CBS News Animations

Videogame Writing: “Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception” (Sony)

Original New Media: “Episode 1-6″

Derivative New Media: AMC.com