A glance at this year's writing noms for nonfiction programming suggests the category might be among the TV Acad's broadest. What, after all, links David de Vries' script for History's "Life After People," a look at our planet's future following the demise of humans, to "Escape," an episode of Showtime's "This American Life," written by show creator Ira Glass, in which Mike, a severely crippled man, hopes to gain independence from his devoted, if sometimes smothering, mother? And what connects "Caylee," a heartbreaking episode of A&E's "Intervention" by Jeff Grogan that charts the downward spiral of a once-talented violinist enabled into drug addiction by her ineffectual family to either of the two PBS candidates: Mark Zwonitzer's uplifting "Walt Whitman" on "American Experience" or Geoffrey C. Ward's narration for "Pride of...
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