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‘Blossom’ & ‘The Ranch’ Creator Don Reo Set For WGA West’s 2026 Paddy Chayefsky Award

Don Reo Courtesy The Writers Guild of America West said Wednesday that it will present its 2026 TV career honor to Blossom, My Wife & Kids and The Ranch creator and M*A*S*H writer-producer Don Reo. The two-time Emmy nominee with dozens of credits will receive the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement during the 78th Writers Guild Awards on Sunday, March 8. Related Stories News ‘Blossom’ Reboot Plans Scrapped By Disney, Mayim Bialik Reveals: “It Was Not For Lack Of Trying” Below The Line 2026 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Oscars, Guilds, Grammys, Tonys & More Blossom star Mayim Bialik will present Reo with the award, which recognizes a guild member who has “advanced the literature of television and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the television writer,” per WGAW.

Don Reo

Don Reo

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Key Highlights

  • “Don Reo is a living legend — a master of the written word and an inspirational thinker and creator,” Bialik said in a statement.
  • “I am honored to be a part of the acknowledgment of his diverse, hilarious and phenomenal career.
  • Watch on Deadline REo launched his career writing jokes for touring comedians before becoming established as a TV writer in the late 1960s and ‘70s.
  • As a staff writer, Reo contributed to such groundbreaking series as Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, All in the Family, Sanford and Son and M*A*S*H*.
  • In the early ‘80s, Reo created and served as executive producer on the fantasy-adventure comedy Wizards and Warriors before writing landmark episodes of The Golden Girls and its spinoff series Empty Nest.
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