# Writers Guild of America Award for Television: New Series

The Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Best Written New Series is an award presented by the Writers Guild of America to the writers of the best new television series of the season. It has been awarded since the 58th Annual Writers Guild of America Awards in 2006. The year indicates when each season aired. The winners are highlighted in gold.

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

| Year | Program | Writer(s) | Network |
| 2005 (58th) |
| 2005 (58th) | Grey's Anatomy | Zoanne A. Clack, Ann Hamilton, Kip Koenig, Stacy McKee, James Parriott, Tony Phelan, Joan Rater, Shonda Rhimes, Mimi Schmir, Gabrielle Stanton, Krista Vernoff, Harry Werksman | ABC |
| 2005 (58th) | Everybody Hates Chris | Aron Abrams, Rodney Barnes, Craig DiGregorio, Alyson Fouse, Howard Gewirtz, Ali LeRoi, Courtney Lilly, Chris Rock, Gregory Thompson, Kriss Turner | UPN |
| 2005 (58th) | My Name Is Earl | Barbie Adler, Bobby Bowman, Vali Chandrasekaran, J. B. Cook, Brad Copeland, Victor Fresco, Greg Garcia, John Hoberg, Kat Likkel, Mike Pennie, Tim Stack, Hilary Winston, Danielle Sanchez-Witzel | NBC |
| 2005 (58th) | The Office | Jennifer Celotta, Greg Daniels, Lee Eisenberg, Ricky Gervais, Mindy Kaling, Paul B. Lieberstein, Stephen Merchant, B. J. Novak, Michael Schur, Gene Stupnitsky, Larry Wilmore | NBC |
| 2005 (58th) | Rome | Alexandra Cunningham, David Frankel, Bruno Heller, Adrian Hodges, William MacDonald, John Milius | HBO |
| 2006 (59th) |
| 2006 (59th) | Ugly Betty | Veronica Becker, Oliver Goldstick, Silvio Horta, Sarah Kucserka, Sheila R. Lawrence, Cameron Litvack, Myra Jo Martino, Jim Parriott, Marco Pennette, Dailyn Rodriguez, Donald Todd | ABC |
| 2006 (59th) | 30 Rock | Brett Baer, Jack Burditt, Kay Cannon, Robert Carlock, Tina Fey, Dave Finkel, Daisy Gardner, Donald Glover, Matt Hubbard, John Riggi | NBC |
| 2006 (59th) | Friday Night Lights | Peter Berg, Bridget Carpenter, Kerry Ehrin, Carter Harris, Elizabeth Heldens, David Hudgins, Jason Katims, Patrick Massett, Andy Miller, Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, John Zinman | NBC |
| 2006 (59th) | Heroes | Jesse Alexander, Adam Armus, Natalie Chaidez, Aron Eli Coleite, Kay Foster, Bryan Fuller, Michael J. Green, Chuck Kim, Tim Kring, Jeph Loeb, Joe Pokaski | NBC |
| 2006 (59th) | Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip | Eli Attie, Christina Kiang Booth, Jessica Brickman, Dana Calvo, Mark Goffman, David M. Handelman, Cinque Henderson, Mark McKinney, Melissa Myers, Aaron Sorkin, Amy Turner | NBC |
| 2007 (60th) |
| 2007 (60th) | Mad Men | Lisa Albert, Bridget Bedard, Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Tom Palmer, Chris Provenzano, Robin Veith, Matthew Weiner | AMC |
| 2007 (60th) | Damages | Jeremy Doner, Mark Fish, Davey Holmes, Glenn Kessler, Todd A. Kessler, Willie Reale, Adam Stein, Aaron Zelman, Daniel Zelman | FX |
| 2007 (60th) | Flight of the Conchords | Damon Beesley, James Bobin, Jemaine Clement, Eric Kaplan, Bret McKenzie, Iain Morris, Duncan Sarkies, Paul Simms, Taika Waititi | HBO |
| 2007 (60th) | Pushing Daisies | Chad Gomez Creasey, Dara Resnick Creasey, Bryan Fuller, Abby Gewanter, Jim Danger Gray, Lisa Joy, Kath Lingenfelter, Rina Mimoun, Jack Monaco, Scott Nimerfro, Peter Ocko | ABC |
| 2007 (60th) | The Sarah Silverman Program | Dan Fybel, Rich Rinaldi, Rob Schrab, Jon Schroeder, Sarah Silverman, Dan Sterling, Harris Wittels | Comedy Central |
| 2008 (61st) |
| 2008 (61st) | In Treatment | Rodrigo Garcia, Bryan Goluboff, Davey Holmes, William Merritt Johnson, Amy Lippman, Sarah Treem | HBO |
| 2008 (61st) | Breaking Bad | Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Patty Lin, George Mastras, J Roberts | AMC |
| 2008 (61st) | Fringe | J. J. Abrams, Jason Cahill, Julia Cho, David H. Goodman, Felicia Henderson, Brad Caleb Kane, Alex Kurtzman, Darin Morgan, J. R. Orci, Roberto Orci, Jeff Pinkner, Zack Whedon | Fox |
| 2008 (61st) | Life on Mars | Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, Scott Rosenberg, Becky Hartman Edwards, David Wilcox, Adele Lim, Bryan Oh, Tracy McMillan, Sonny Postiglione, Phil M. Rosenberg, Meredith Averill | ABC |
| 2008 (61st) | True Blood | Alan Ball, Brian Buckner, Raelle Tucker, Alexander Woo, Nancy Oliver, Chris Offutt | HBO |
| 2009 (62nd) |
| 2009 (62nd) | Modern Family | Paul Corrigan, Sameer Gardezi, Joe Lawson, Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd, Dan O'Shannon, Brad Walsh, Caroline Williams, Bill Wrubel, Danny Zuker | ABC |
| 2009 (62nd) | Glee | Ian Brennan, Brad Falchuk, Ryan Murphy | Fox |
| 2009 (62nd) | The Good Wife | Angela Amato Velez, Corinne Brinkerhoff, Ted Humphrey, Dee Johnson, Todd Ellis Kessler, Michelle King, Robert King | CBS |
| 2009 (62nd) | Hung | Colette Burson, Ellie Herman, Emily Kapnek, Brett C. Leonard, Dmitry Lipkin, Angela Robinson | HBO |
| 2009 (62nd) | Nurse Jackie | Taii K. Austin, Liz Brixius, Rick Cleveland, Evan Dunsky, Nancy Fichman, Liz Flahive, Jennifer Hoppe, Mark Hudis, John Hilary Shepherd, Linda Wallem, Christine Zander | Showtime |

### 2010s

| Year | Program | Writer(s) | Network |
| 2010 (63rd) |
| 2010 (63rd) | Boardwalk Empire | Meg Jackson, Lawrence Konner, Howard Korder, Steve Kornacki, Margaret Nagle, Tim Van Patten, Paul Simms, Terence Winter | HBO |
| 2010 (63rd) | Justified | Dave Andron, Wendy Calhoun, Benjamin Cavell, Fred Golan, Gary Lennon, Benjamin Daniel Lobato, Chris Provenzano, Graham Yost | FX |
| 2010 (63rd) | Men of a Certain Age | Bridget Bedard, Tucker Cawley, Warren Hutcherson, Rick Muirragui, Jack Orman, Ray Romano, Mike Royce, Lew Schneider, Mark Stegemann | TNT |
| 2010 (63rd) | Treme | Lolis Eric Elie, David Mills, Eric Overmyer, George Pelecanos, Tom Piazza, Davis Rogan, David Simon | HBO |
| 2010 (63rd) | The Walking Dead | Frank Darabont, Charles H. Eglee, Adam Fierro, Robert Kirkman, Jack LoGiudice, Glen Mazzara | AMC |
| 2011 (64th) |
| 2011 (64th) | Homeland | Henry Bromell, Alexander Cary, Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Chip Johannessen, Gideon Raff, Meredith Stiehm | Showtime |
| 2011 (64th) | Game of Thrones | David Benioff, Bryan Cogman, Jane Espenson, George R. R. Martin, D. B. Weiss | HBO |
| 2011 (64th) | The Killing | Linda Burstyn, Jeremy Doner, Soo Hugh, Dan Nowak, Nic Pizzolatto, Dawn Prestwich, Veena Sud, Nicole Yorkin, Aaron Zelman | AMC |
| 2011 (64th) | Episodes | David Crane, Jeffrey Klarik | Showtime |
| 2011 (64th) | New Girl | Nick Adams, Rachel Axler, Brett Baer, Donick Cary, Dave Finkel, Berkley Johnson, Josh Malmuth, Elizabeth Meriwether, J.J. Philbin, Joe Port, Luvh Rakhe, Joe Wiseman | Fox |
| 2012 (65th) |
| 2012 (65th) | Girls | Judd Apatow, Lesley Arfin, Lena Dunham, Sarah Heyward, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Jenni Konner, Deborah Schoeneman, Dan Sterling | HBO |
| 2012 (65th) | The Mindy Project | Ike Barinholtz, Jeremy Bronson, Linwood Boomer, Adam Countee, Harper Dill, Mindy Kaling, Chris McKenna, B. J. Novak, David Stassen, Matt Warburton | Fox |
| 2012 (65th) | Nashville | Wendy Calhoun, Jason George, David Gould, David Marshall Grant, Dana Greenblatt, Dee Johnson, Todd Ellis Kessler, Callie Khouri, Meredith Lavender, Nancy Miller, James Parriott, Liz Tigelaar, Marcie Ulin | ABC |
| 2012 (65th) | The Newsroom | Brendan Fehily, David M. Handelman, Cinque Henderson, Paul Redford, Ian Reichbach, Amy Rice, Aaron Sorkin, Gideon Yago | HBO |
| 2012 (65th) | Veep | Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Roger Drew, Sean Gray, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, Tony Roche, Will Smith | HBO |
| 2013 (66th) |
| 2013 (66th) | House of Cards | Kate Barnow, Rick Cleveland, Sam Forman, Gina Gionfriddo, Keith Huff, Sarah Treem, Beau Willimon | Netflix |
| 2013 (66th) | The Americans | Michael Batistick, Joshua Brand, Joel Fields, Melissa James Gibson, Sneha Koorse, Joe Weisberg, Bradford Winters | FX |
| 2013 (66th) | Masters of Sex | Michelle Ashford, Tyler Bensinger, Michael Cunningham, Lyn Greene, Richard Levine, Amy Lippman, Sam Shaw, Noelle Valdivia | Showtime |
| 2013 (66th) | Orange Is the New Black | Liz Friedman, Sian Heder, Tara Herrmann, Sara Hess, Nick Jones, Jenji Kohan, Gary Lennon, Lauren Morelli, Marco Ramirez | Netflix |
| 2013 (66th) | Ray Donovan | Ann Biderman, Sean Conway, David Hollander, Brett Johnson, Ron Nyswaner | Showtime |
| 2014 (67th) |
| 2014 (67th) | True Detective | Nic Pizzolatto | HBO |
| 2014 (67th) | The Affair | Dan LeFranc, Hagai Levi, Melanie Marnich, Eric Overmyer, Kate Robin, Sarah Treem | Showtime |
| 2014 (67th) | The Knick | Jack Amiel, Michael Begler, Steven Katz | Cinemax |
| 2014 (67th) | Silicon Valley | John Altschuler, Alec Berg, Matteo Borghese, Jessica Gao, Mike Judge, Dave Krinsky, Carson Mell, Dan O'Keefe, Clay Tarver, Rob Turbovsky, Ron Weiner | HBO |
| 2014 (67th) | Transparent | Bridget Bedard, Micah Fitzerman-Blue, Noah Harpster, Ethan Kuperberg, Ali Liebegott, Faith Soloway, Jill Soloway | Amazon |
| 2015 (68th) |
| 2015 (68th) | Mr. Robot | Kyle Bradstreet, Kate Erickson, Sam Esmail, David Iserson, Randolph Leon, Adam Penn, Matt Pyken | USA |
| 2015 (68th) | Better Call Saul | Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Gennifer Hutchison, Bradley Paul, Thomas Schnauz, Gordon Smith | AMC |
| 2015 (68th) | Bloodline | Jonathan Glatzer, Carter Harris, Glenn Kessler, Todd A. Kessler, Addison McQuigg, Arthur Phillips, Jeff Shakoor, Daniel Zelman | Netflix |
| 2015 (68th) | The Last Man on Earth | Andy Bobrow, Liz Cackowski, Erik Durbin, Will Forte, Kira Kalush, Matt Marshall, Tim McAuliffe, David Noel, Erica Rivinoja, John Solomon, Emily Spivey | Fox |
| 2015 (68th) | Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt | Emily Altman, Jack Burditt, Robert Carlock, Azie Mira Dungey, Tina Fey, Lauren Gurganous, Charla Lauriston, Sam Means, Dan Rubin, Meredith Scardino, Allison Silverman, Lon Zimmet | Netflix |
| 2016 (69th) |
| 2016 (69th) | Atlanta | Donald Glover, Stephen Glover, Stefani Robinson, Paul Simms | FX |
| 2016 (69th) | Better Things | Pamela Adlon, Louis C.K., Cindy Chupack, Gina Fattore | FX |
| 2016 (69th) | Stranger Things | Paul Dichter, Justin Doble, The Duffer Brothers, Jessica Mecklenburg, Jessie Nickson-Lopez, Alison Tatlock | Netflix |
| 2016 (69th) | This Is Us | Isaac Aptaker, Elizabeth Berger, Bekah Brunstetter, Dan Fogelman, Vera Herbert, Joe Lawson, Kay Oyegun, Aurin Squire, K.J. Steinberg, Donald Todd | NBC |
| 2016 (69th) | Westworld | Ed Brubaker, Bridget Carpenter, Dan Dietz, Halley Gross, Lisa Joy, Katherine Lingenfelter, Dominic Mitchell, Jonathan Nolan, Roberto Patino, Daniel T. Thomsen, Charles Yu | HBO |
| 2017 (70th) |
| 2017 (70th) | The Handmaid's Tale | Ilene Chaiken, Nina Fiore, Dorothy Fortenberry, Leila Gerstein, John Herrera, Lynn Maxcy, Bruce Miller, Kira Snyder, Wendy Straker Hauser, Eric Tuchman | Hulu |
| 2017 (70th) | American Vandal | Seth Cohen, Lauren Herstik, Dan Lagana, Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus, Jessica Meyer, Dan Perrault, Amy Pocha, Mike Rosolio, Tony Yacenda | Netflix |
| 2017 (70th) | The Deuce | Megan Abbott, Marc Henry Johnson, Lisa Lutz, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, Will Ralston, David Simon, Chris Yakaitis | HBO |
| 2017 (70th) | GLOW | Arabella Anderson, Kristoffer Diaz, Liz Flahive, Tara Herrmann, Nick Jones, Jenji Kohan, Emma Rathbone, Sascha Rothchild, Rachel Shukert | Netflix |
| 2017 (70th) | Ozark | Whit Anderson, Bill Dubuque, Ryan Farley, Alyson Feltes, Paul Kolsby, David Manson, Chris Mundy, Mark Williams, Ning Zhou, Martin Zimmerman | Netflix |
| 2018 (71st) |
| 2018 (71st) | Barry | Alec Berg, Duffy Boudreau, Bill Hader, Emily Heller, Liz Sarnoff, Ben Smith, Sarah Solemani | HBO |
| 2018 (71st) | The Haunting of Hill House | Meredith Averill, Charise Castro Smith, Mike Flanagan, Jeff Howard, Rebecca Leigh Klingel, Scott Kosar, Liz Phang | Netflix |
| 2018 (71st) | Homecoming | Micah Bloomberg, Cami Delavigne, Eli Horowitz, Shannon Houston, Eric Simonson, David Wiener | Amazon |
| 2018 (71st) | Pose | Steven Canals, Brad Falchuk, Todd Kubrak, Janet Mock, Ryan Murphy, Our Lady J | FX |
| 2018 (71st) | Succession | Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Jon Brown, Jonathan Glatzer, Anna Jordan, Lucy Prebble, Georgia Pritchett, Tony Roche, Susan Soon He Stanton, Daniel Zelman | HBO |
| 2019 (72nd) |
| 2019 (72nd) | Watchmen | Lila Byock, Nick Cuse, Christal Henry, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Cord Jefferson, Jeff Jensen, Claire Kiechel, Damon Lindelof, Stacy Osei-Kuffour, Tom Spezialy, and Carly Wray | HBO |
| 2019 (72nd) | Dead to Me | Rebecca Addelman, Njeri Brown, Liz Feldman, Kelly Hutchinson, Anthony King, Emma Rathbone, Kate Robin, and Abe Sylvia | Netflix |
| 2019 (72nd) | PEN15 | Jeff Chan, Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Gabe Liedman, Stacy Osei-Kuffour, Andrew Rhymer, Jessica Watson, and Sam Zvibleman | Hulu |
| 2019 (72nd) | Russian Doll | Jocelyn Bioh, Flora Birnbaum, Cirocco Dunlap, Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler, Tami Sagher, and Allison Silverman | Netflix |
| 2019 (72nd) | What We Do in the Shadows | Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Jemaine Clement, Josh Lieb, Iain Morris, Stefani Robinson, Duncan Sarkies, Marika Sawyer, Tom Scharpling, Paul Simms, and Taika Waititi | FX |

### 2020s

| Year | Program | Writer(s) | Network |
| 2020 (73rd) |
| 2020 (73rd) | Ted Lasso | Jane Becker, Leann Bowen, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, Joe Kelly, Bill Lawrence, Jamie Lee, Jason Sudeikis, Phoebe Walsh, Bill Wrubel | Apple TV+ |
| 2020 (73rd) | Dave | Dave Burd, Vanessa McGee, Saladin Patterson, Luvh Rakhe, Alex Russell, Jeff Schaffer, Max Searle, Yamara Taylor | FXX |
| 2020 (73rd) | The Flight Attendant | Kara Lee Corthron, Michael Foley, Ryan Jennifer Jones, Ticona S. Joy, Meredith Lavender, Jess Meyer, Daniele Nathanson, Marcie Ulin, Ian Weinreich, Steve Yockey | HBO Max |
| 2020 (73rd) | The Great | Vanessa Alexander, Tony McNamara, Tess Morris, Amelia Roper, Gretel Vella, James Wood | Hulu |
| 2020 (73rd) | Lovecraft Country | Misha Green, Shannon Houston, Jonathan Kidd, Kevin Lau, Ihuoma Ofordire, Wes Taylor, Sonya Winton | HBO |
| 2021 (74th) |
| 2021 (74th) | Hacks | Lucia Aniello, Joanna Calo, Jessica Chaffin, Paul W. Downs, Cole Escola, Janis E. Hirsch, Ariel Karlin, Katherine Kearns, Andrew Law, Joe Mande, Pat Regan, Samantha Riley, Michael Schur, Jen Statsky | HBO Max |
| 2021 (74th) | Loki | Bisha K. Ali, Jess Dweck, Elissa Karasik, Tom Kauffman, Eric Martin, Michael Waldron | Disney+ |
| 2021 (74th) | Only Murders in the Building | Thembi Banks, Matteo Borghese, Rachel Burger, Kirker Butler, Madeleine George, John Hoffman, Stephen Markley, Steve Martin, Kristin Newman, Ben Philippe, Kim Rosenstock, Ben Smith, Rob Turbovsky | Hulu |
| 2021 (74th) | Reservation Dogs | Tazbah Rose Chavez, Sydney Freeland, Sterlin Harjo, Migizi Pensoneau, Tommy Pico, Taika Waititi, Bobby Wilson | FX |
| 2021 (74th) | Yellowjackets | Cameron Brent Johnson, Katherine Kearns, Jonathan Lisco, Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson, Liz Phang, Ameni Rozsa, Sarah L. Thompson, Chantelle M. Wells | Showtime |
| 2022 (75th) |
| 2022 (75th) | Severance | Chris Black, Andrew Colville, Kari Drake, Dan Erickson, Mark Friedman, Helen Leigh, Anna Moench, Amanda Overton | Apple TV+ |
| 2022 (75th) | Abbott Elementary | Quinta Brunson, Ava Coleman, Riley Dufurrena, Justin Halpern, Joya McCrory, Morgan Murphy, Brittani Nichols, Kate Peterman, Brian Rubenstein, Patrick Schumacker, Justin Tan, Jordan Temple, Garrett Werner | ABC |
| 2022 (75th) | Andor | Dan Gilroy, Tony Gilroy, Stephen Schiff, Beau Willimon | Disney+ |
| 2022 (75th) | Bad Sisters | Brett Baer, Dave Finkel, Sharon Horgan | Apple TV+ |
| 2022 (75th) | The Bear | Karen Joseph Adcock, Joanna Calo, Rene Gube, Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, Alex O’Keefe, Catherine Schetina, Christopher Storer | FX |
| 2023 (76th) |
| 2023 (76th) | The Last of Us | Neil Druckmann, Halley Gross, Craig Mazin, Bo Shim | HBO/Max |
| 2023 (76th) | The Diplomat | Eli Attie, Debora Cahn, Mia Chung, Anna Hagen, Amanda Johnson-Zetterstrom, Peter Noah | Netflix |
| 2023 (76th) | Jury Duty | Tanner Bean, Lee Eisenberg, Marcos Gonzalez, Cody Heller, Mekki Leeper, Katrina Mathewson, Kerry O’Neill, Ese Shaw, Gene Stupnitsky, Andrew Weinberg, Evan Williams | Amazon Freevee |
| 2023 (76th) | Poker Face | Christine Boylan, Wyatt Cain, Chris Downey, CS Fischer, Rian Johnson, Alice Ju, Joe Lawson, Natasha Lyonne, Charlie Peppers, Lilla Zuckerman, Nora Zuckerman | Peacock |
| 2023 (76th) | Shrinking | Wally Baram, Rachna Fruchbom, Brian Gallivan, Neil Goldman, Brett Goldstein, Bill Lawrence, Annie Mebane, Bill Posley, Jason Segel, Sofia Selig | Apple TV+ |
| 2024 (77th) |
| 2024 (77th) | Shōgun | Shannon Goss, Maegan Houang, Rachel Kondo, Matt Lambert, Justin Marks, Caillin Puente, Nigel Williams, Emily Yoshida | FX on Hulu |
| 2024 (77th) | English Teacher | Brian Jordan Alvarez, Wally Baram, Jake Bender, Emmy Blotnick, Zach Dunn, Dave King, Stephanie Koenig, Jonathan Krisel, Paul Simms, Samantha Shier | FX on Hulu |
| 2024 (77th) | Fallout | Jake Bender, Karey Dornetto, Zach Dunn, Kieran Fitzgerald, Chaz Hawkins, Lisa Joy, Carson Mell, Jonathan Nolan, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Gursimran Sandhu, Graham Wagner | Prime Video |
| 2024 (77th) | Mr. and Mrs. Smith | Carla Ching, Adamma Ebo, Adanne Ebo, Donald Glover, Stephen Glover, Schuyler Pappas, Francesca Sloane, and Yvonne Hana Yi | Prime Video |
| 2024 (77th) | Nobody Wants This | Barbie Adler, Jane Becker, Jack Burditt, Vali Chandrasekaran, Craig DiGregorio, Erin Foster, Lindsay Golder, Steven Levitan, Pat Regan, Niki Schwartz-Wright, Neel Shah, Noelle Valdivia, Ron Weiner, Ryann Werner | Netflix |

## Total awards by network
### 7 awards

* HBO

### 3 awards

* ABC

### 1 award

* Apple TV+
* AMC
* FX
* FX on Hulu
* Hulu
* Netflix
* Showtime
* USA Network