Led by head writer Ron Carlivati, the writing team of “Days of our Lives” took home the Writers Guild Award in the category of Daytime Drama for the second year in a row during tonight’s virtual presentation of “The 74th Annual Writers Guild Awards,” hosted by Ashley Nicole Black (“A Black Lady Sketch Show”).

Carlivati accepted the award in a pre-taped speech in which he jokingly stated, “We may or may not have won but either way I’m gonna keep this one.” He was referring to the fact that all nominees were required to record acceptance speeches for the virtual ceremony in the event they won.

Courtesy of NBC

In Carlivati’s full speech, which can be watched in its entirety below, the writer said, “Thank you so much to the Writers Guild for this award which we may or may not have won but either way I’m gonna keep this one. Thanks to everybody at NBC, especially Michael and Sharice. Your support of ‘Days of our Lives’ has been incredible. We did a mini-series with you this year for Peacock, we did a Christmas movie, which was great for the show and for the genre. Thanks to Ken Corday [executive producer], to Albert Alarr [co-executive producer], to our cast and crew at ‘DAYS’ who worked tirelessly to put on 250 episodes a year, especially over the past two years has been amazing, and lastly to my team of writers I could not do my job without you, especially Ryan Quan. There wouldn’t be a ‘Days of our Lives’ without you.”

In addition to Carlivati and Quan, the “Days of our Lives” writing team winning the award included writers Lorraine Broderick, Joanna Cohen, Carolyn Culliton, Richard Culliton, Jamey Giddens, David Kreizman, Rebecca McCarty, Dave Ryan, Katherine D. Schock and Elizabeth Snyder.

The soap submitted three scripts, including Doug reveals to Marlena that he’s possessed, Thanksgiving when Doug and Julie battled Marlena and then the Christmas Day exorcism.

“DAYS” beat out the writing teams of “General Hospital” and “The Young and the Restless.”

Watch Carlivati’s acceptance speech below.

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Low standards nowadays for winning awards for writing. They submitted the three worse episodes and still won. They were only competing against GH.  YR submitted stories dealing with nothing.

This is really embarrassing.

It's what happens when there's no viable competition, and when the judges don't watch the submitted material.😑

In no universe is DAYS a well-written show.

GH is the only soap right now showcasing any hint of having actual writers at the helm. They really should follow other awards shows and just scrap the soap category entirely.

What could Y&R and GH have submitted that was worse than what Days submitted?  SMH. 

1 hour ago, TEdgeofNight said:

What could Y&R and GH have submitted that was worse than what Days submitted?  SMH. 

Single character focus and anything to do with Petey? 

Well, he's very lucky that he's got some of the best script writers in the business working under him

I still think a lot of cash has been handed over for that award here lmao 

A reminder that the award system is extremely unsuited for daytime soaps where the quality of a performance or of writing spanning daily episodes every weekday over a year cannot be summed up by a single episode submission.
It gives an extremely warped sense of who exactly has been doing well AND it biases itself towards a certain kind of writing and acting.
Subtle long-term plotting and compelling sustained storylines gets ignored before spectacular "special events" and twists. Layered performance building a character over time are overlooked in favor of histrionics.