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Diane Haithman contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage. Ten scribes have been named winners of the WGA West‘s 2013 Writer Access Project program, which recognizes “diverse television writers” in comedy and drama script categories. The honorees:Michael DeGaetano,Joey ManderinoJoseph NeusteinandLena Waithefor comedy; and Sherry Carnes,Dawn Comer Jefferson,Margaux Froley,Geetika Lizardi,Leslie ValdesandThomas Wongfor drama. (See their background info here.) The program, run by the WGA West Diversity Department, identifies writers with TV staffing experience and makes samples of their work available to showrunners, producers, network and studio executives, and agents and managers, to provide increased access. Qualified guild members were invited to submit their work in one of five diversity categories: minority writers; writers with disabilities; women writers; writers age 55 and over; and gay and lesbian writers. The scripts were read and scored on a blind submission basis by Wgaw members serving as judges,...

In case you've been dozing off lately on the web comedy scene, let me introduce you to the one of best comedy duos online,Joey ManderinoandDavid Young,or simply Joey and David. Two best friends who started making online videos in high school, typical right? As cliché as it sounds they have turned out a promising career as web video producers and in the process have built an impressive resume. Joey and David have been in production for the last several months working on new pilots and the first to be released are The Temps (above), and Third Wheeling (below). The Temps follows Joey and David as struggling comedians entering the work force through a temp agency. “It’s a really ridiculous, absurd series. The idea of temps, could live anywhere, but the length at which we take it, is very Internet specific, you couldn’t do that on network TV.