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The Young and the Restless
File:The Young and the Restless logo on CBS (1973).png
GenreSoap opera
Created byWilliam J. Bell
Lee Phillip Bell
No. of episodes9,428 (as of June 25, 2010)
Production
Executive producersMaria Arena Bell
Paul Rauch
Production locationsSetting:
Genoa City, Wisconsin
Taping:
CBS Television City
7800 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, California
Original release
NetworkCBS
ReleaseMarch 26, 1973 (1973-03-26) –
present

The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City. First broadcast on March 26, 1973,[1] The Young and the Restless was originally broadcast as half-hour episodes, five times a week. It expanded to one hour episodes on February 4, 1980. The show currently also airs on SOAPnet weeknights and is syndicated internationally.

It is one of the few TV series to successfully write out almost all the original characters and replace them with new ones. The Young and the Restless originally focused on two core families in Genoa City: the wealthy Brooks family and the poor Foster family. After a series of recasts and departures, in the early 1980s all the original characters except Jill Foster Abbott were written out. New core families the Abbotts and the Williams, were introduced.[2] Other families such as the Newmans, the Winters, and the Fisher/Baldwins were subsequently introduced. Despite these changes, one storyline that has endured through almost the show's entire run is the feud between Jill Foster Abbott and Katherine Chancellor, one of the longest rivalries on any American soap opera.[3][4]

Since its debut, The Young and the Restless has won seven Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series. It is also currently the highest-rated daytime drama on American television. As of 2008, it has appeared at the top of the weekly Nielsen ratings in that category for more than 1000 weeks since 1988.[5]

Production

Production summary
Start date End date Time slot
(eastern) 		Run time
(minutes) 		Network Filming
location 		Notes
1973-Mar-26 1980-Feb-1 12:00 pm 30 CBS Television Los Angeles —
1980-Feb-4 1981-Jun-5 1:00 pm 60 —
1981-Jun-8 present 12:30 pm —

To compete with the youthful ABC soap operas, All My Children, One Life to Live, and General Hospital, CBS executives wanted a new daytime serial that was youth oriented.[6] William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell created The Young and the Restless in 1972 under the working title, The Innocent Years![6][7] "We were confronted with the very disturbing reality that young America had lost much of its innocence," Bell said. "Innocence as we had known and lived it all our lives had, in so many respects, ceased to exist."[8] They changed the title of the series to The Young and the Restless because they felt it "reflected the youth and mood of the early seventies."[8] The Bells named the fictional setting for the show after the real Genoa City, Wisconsin, which was located on their way from their then-home in Chicago to their annual summer vacation spot in Lake Geneva.[9]

Taped at CBS Television City in Los Angeles since its debut on March 26, 1973, the show was packaged by the distribution company Columbia Pictures Television.[10][11] The Young and the Restless originally aired as a half-hour series and was the first soap opera to focus on the visual aspects of production, creating "a look that broke with the visual conventions of the genre."[2][11] Similar to radio shows, soap operas at the time primarily focused on dialogue, characters, and story, with details like sets as secondary concerns.[2] The Young and the Restless stood out by using unique lighting techniques and camera angles, similar to Hollywood-style productions.[10][12] The style of filming included using out of the ordinary camera angles and a large amount of facial close-ups with bright lighting on the actors' faces.[2][10][12][13] Former executive producer John Conboy said he used lighting to create "artistic effects".[12] Those effects made the series look dark, shadowy, and moody.[2][12] The Young and the Restless' look influenced the filming styles of other soap operas.[2] When H. Wesley Kenney replaced Conboy as executive producer, he balanced the lighting of the scenes.[13]

Due to the success of the series, CBS and their affiliates pressured Bell to lengthen the series from 30 minutes to a full hour. Bell attributed this change to the show's fall from number one in the Nielsen ratings, since the lengthening of the show led to the departure of a number of cast members.[2] "The issue of performing in a one-hour show had not been part of their contracts," Bell said. This forced the show to recast multiple main characters and eventually to phase out the original core families in favor of new ones.[2]

On June 27, 2001, The Young and the Restless became the first daytime soap opera to be broadcast in high-definition.[14]

Executive producing and head writing team

Further information: List of The Young and the Restless crew

For the most part, the writers and producers of the show have stayed unchanged since the 1980s. Throughout most of the show's history since its inception, creator William J. Bell served as both the Executive Producer and head writer for the show. He also had a number of executive producers over the years including John Conboy, H. Wesley Kenney, Edward J. Scott, David Shaughnessy, and John F. Smith. Starting in the mid-80s, Bell was credited as "Senior Executive Producer".

As the show continued to reach new, record heights in 1987, co-executive producer H. Wesley Kenney defected to network television's #1 mainstay in the soap opera ratings, General Hospital. The following year, The Young and the Restless surpassed General Hospital in the Nielsen ratings.

Kay Alden took over as head writer after Bell stepped down in 1998. After Bell died in April 2005, Smith served as the sole executive producer. In late February 2006, Lynn Marie Latham was promoted to head writer, while Alden and Smith served as co-head writers. In late August 2006, Latham was announced as the new executive producer (in addition to her writing role) by CBS Daytime Senior Vice President Barbara Bloom. In September 2006, Smith's contract as co-head writer was not renewed. Kathryn Foster, a long time producer and director since the 1980s, resigned in October 2006.

Alden quit the show in November 2006 and was hired by ABC Daytime in December 2006 to consult on All My Children and One Life to Live. After her consulting contract ended, Alden joined The Bold and the Beautiful as an Associate Head Writer. Lynn Marie Latham, the show's former creative consultant, was named its new executive producer shortly after the departure of Smith. In June 2007, former supervising producer Edward J. Scott was chosen by Sony Pictures Television to join Days of our Lives. Anthony Morina, episode director and husband of former series writer/story consultant Sally Sussman Morina, was named as producer shortly after Scott's departure (and later promoted to supervising producer).

The show had been known in the industry for its close-knit team that rarely changed; however, with Latham's ascension, many crew members that had been with the show since the 1980s were fired or quit including, Joshua S. McCaffrey, Marnie Saitta, Trent Jones, Mike Denney, Janice Ferri Esser, Sally Sussman Morina, Jim Houghton, Marc Hertz, Sara A. Bibel (Denney and Esser have since returned). New crew members were hired: Neil Landau, Darin Goldberg, Brett Steanart, Valerie Ahern, Shelley Meals, Phideaux Xavier, Karen Rea, Cherie Bennett, Jeff Gottesfeld, Bernard Lechowick, Scott Hamner, Christian McLaughlin, Lynsey DuFour, Vincent Lechowick, James Stanley, Jenelle Lindsay, Tom Casiello, Paula Cwikly, Rick Draughon, and Chris Abbott.

By 2007, only four writers from the pre-Latham era: Sandra Weintraub, Eric Freiwald, Linda Schreiber, and Natalie Minardi Slater, remained with the serial. Josh Griffith took over the executive producing duties after Latham was fired, but his tenure ended in September 2008 when it was announced that he would be replaced by Maria Arena Bell and Paul Rauch as co-executive producers. Bell and Rauch's episodes began airing on October 3, 2008.

With Maria Arena Bell at the helm, The Young and the Restless has seen the return of several long-time writers and directors; most notably Mike Denney, who was part of the directing team for nearly 20 years before Lynn Marie Latham had him relieved, as well as writer Janice Ferri Esser who was also relieved of her duties by Latham.

Current main crew

Head Writers Associate/Breakdown/Script Producers/Consultants Directors
Maria Arena Bell; Hogan Sheffer, Scott Hamner Natalie Minardi Slater, Marla Kanelos, Beth Milstein, Janice Ferri Esser, Sandra Weintraub, Linda Schreiber, Paula Cwikly, Jay Gibson, Amanda L. Beall, Tom Casiello, Teresa Zimmerman, Lisa Connor, Anne Schoettle Paul Rauch (Co-EP), Maria Arena Bell (Co-EP), Anthony Morina, John Fisher, Josh O'Connell, Matthew J. Olson, Bill Bell Jr. Mike Denney, Sally McDonald, Dean LaMont, Andrew Lee, Grant A. Johnson, Peter Brinckerhoff, Camille St. Cyr (Casting Director)

Executive producers

Duration Name
March 26, 1973 to 1976 William J. Bell
1976 to 1982 William J. Bell and John Conboy
1982 to 1986 William J. Bell and H. Wesley Kenney
1986 to December 2001 William J. Bell and Edward J. Scott
December 2001 to 2003 William J. Bell and David Shaughnessy
2003 to January 2004 William J. Bell, David Shaughnessy, and John F. Smith
January 2004 to April 29, 2005 William J. Bell and John F. Smith
May 2, 2005 to May 12, 2006 John F. Smith
May 15, 2006 to October 3, 2006 No executive producer
October 4, 2006 to October 24, 2006 Lynn Marie Latham
October 25, 2006 to December 24, 2007 Lynn Marie Latham and Josh Griffith
December 26, 2007 to October 2, 2008 Josh Griffith
October 3, 2008 to present Maria Arena Bell and Paul Rauch

Head writers

Duration Name
March 26, 1973–1997 William J. Bell
1997 – July 1998 William J. Bell and Kay Alden
July 1998 – Autumn 2000 Kay Alden
Autumn 2000 – June 2002 Kay Alden and Trent Jones
June 2002 – August 5, 2004 Kay Alden, Trent Jones, and John F. Smith
August 6, 2004 – February 15, 2006 Kay Alden and John F. Smith
February 16, 2006 – November 10, 2006 Lynn Marie Latham, Kay Alden, and John F. Smith
November 13, 2006 – December 23, 2006 Lynn Marie Latham, Kay Alden, and Scott Hamner
December 26, 2006 – December 24, 2007 Lynn Marie Latham and Scott Hamner
December 26, 2007 – April 14, 2008 Josh Griffith and Maria Arena Bell
April 15, 2008 – April 21, 2008 Josh Griffith, Maria Arena Bell, and Scott Hamner
April 22, 2008 – May 9, 2008 Maria Arena Bell and Scott Hamner
May 12, 2008 – July 14, 2008 Maria Arena Bell
July 15, 2008 – August 8, 2008 Maria Arena Bell and Hogan Sheffer
August 11, 2008–Present Maria Arena Bell, Hogan Sheffer, and Scott Hamner

Casting and story development

See also: List of The Young and the Restless cast members and List of The Young and the Restless characters
File:YR-cast-2008.jpg
2007–2008 The Young and the Restless cast photo.
Top row (l-r): Ted Shackelford, Tammy Lauren, Bryton James, Christel Khalil
Second row: Greg Rikaart, Judith Chapman, Kate Linder, Amelia Heinle, Thad Luckinbill, Vincent Irizarry, Eyal Podell, Daniel Goddard, Tammin Sursok
Third row: Nia Peeples, Kristoff St. John, Jeanne Cooper, Eric Braeden, Melody Thomas Scott, Jess Walton, Emily O'Brien
Bottom row: Doug Davidson, Vail Bloom, Christian LeBlanc, Tracey E. Bregman, Joshua Morrow, Adrienne Frantz, Michelle Stafford, Michael Graziadei, Sharon Case, Peter Bergman, Hunter Allan, Don Diamont, Darcy Rose Byrnes

Co-creators William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell centered The Young and the Restless around two core families, the wealthy Brooks' and the poor Fosters.[2][8][6] Bell borrowed this technique of soap opera building from his mentor, Irna Phillips. While casting for the series, Bell and producer John Conboy chose actors they considered "glamorous model types" for main characters.[10] Chemistry between actors also factored into the criteria for casting.[12] The stories focused on the younger characters, with an emphasis in fantasy.[2][8] The fantasy element was reflected in the love story between Jill Foster and the millionaire Phillip Chancellor II; the Leslie Brooks, Brad Elliot, and Laurie Brooks love triangle; and Snapper Foster's romance with Chris Brooks.[2][12]

Sexuality also played a major role in the stories.[2][10][13] Formerly, soap operas did not delve into the sexual side of their romances. Bell changed that, first during his time as head writer of Days of our Lives and again on The Young and the Restless.[10] William Gray Espy's Snapper Foster is considered the "first to discover sex on a soap opera."[13] During the story, the character is engaged to Chris Brooks (Trish Stewart) and having a sexual relationship with Sally McGuire (Lee Crawford).[13] Other plots reflected sexual themes as well. For the first time in the genre, the dialogue and the story situations included explicit sexual themes such as premarital intercourse, impotence, incest, and rape.[2] The series also explored social issues. Jennifer Brooks underwent the first mastectomy on a soap opera.[12] Other social issue storylines included bulimia, alcoholism, and cancer.[15] Lesbianism was also touched on with Katherine Chancellor, who flirts with Jill while drunk in 1974 and a brief relationship with Joann Curtis (Kay Heberle) in 1977.[15]

When the series lengthened from a half hour to an hour in 1980, multiple cast members who portrayed characters from the original core families departed because their contracts only bound them to performing in a half hour show.[2] A number of the characters were recast until one of the few remaining original actors, Jamie Lyn Bauer, who portrayed Lauralee Brooks, decided to leave. When she announced her intention not to renew her contract, Bell decided to replace the original core families.[2] "As I studied the remaining cast, I realized I had two characters- Paul Williams, played by Doug Davidson, and Jack Abbott, played by Terry Lester- both of whom had a relatively insignificant presence on the show," Bell said. "They didn't have families. Hell, they didn't even have bedrooms. But these became the two characters I would build our two families around."[2]

The characters from the Abbott and Williams families were integrated into the series while the Brooks and Foster families, with the exception of Jill, were phased out. The continuity of the feud between Jill and Katherine, which began in the early years of the show, smoothed the transition.[2] The relationship between the two characters remained a central theme throughout the series and became the longest lasting rivalry in daytime history.[3]

Another character introduced in the 1980s was Eric Braeden's Victor Newman.[2][16] Originally, the character was "a despicable, contemptible, unfaithful wife abuser" who was intended to be killed off.[16] Braeden's tenure on the show was meant to last between eight and twelve weeks. "When I saw Eric Braeden's first performance- the voice, the power, the inner strength- I knew immediately that I didn't want to lose this man," Bell said. "He was exactly what the show needed. Not the hateful man we saw on-screen, but the man he could and would become." Bell rewrote the story to save the character and put Braeden on contract. Victor's romance with Nikki Reed became a prominent plot in the series.[16]

In the 1990s, core black characters were introduced with the Barber and Winters families. Victoria Rowell (Drucilla Barber) and Tonya Lee Williams (Dr. Olivia Barber) were cast as the nieces of the Abbott's maid, Mamie Johnson, in 1990.[17] The brothers Neil (Kristoff St. John) and Malcolm Winters (Shemar Moore) were introduced as love interests for Olivia and Drucilla.[18] The Young and the Restless became popular among black viewers, which Williams and St. John attributed to the writing for the black characters.[18][19][20] "I play a CEO at a major corporation, that's something we don't see that often," St. John said. "And the show doesn't use the old African-American stereotypes that we have been seeing on TV, like the hustler, the pimp, the drug dealer. We have come a long way."[19] Though the characters held prominent positions in the fictional work place of Genoa City, they had little interaction with other characters outside of their jobs.[21]

Awards

The serial has won 100 Daytime Emmys, along with 334 nominations. The following list summarizes awards won by The Young and the Restless:

Daytime Emmy Awards

Category Recipient Role Year(s)
Outstanding Drama Series 1975,[22] 1983, [23]1985,[24] 1986,[25] 1993,[26] 2004,[27] 2007[28]
Outstanding Individual Director in a Daytime Drama Series Richard Dunlap 1975,[29] 1978[30]
Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989,[31] 1996,[32] 1997,[33] 1998,[34] 1999,[35] 2000,[36] 2001,[37] 2002[38]
Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team 1992,[39] 1997,[33] 2006,[40]
Lead Actor Peter Bergman
Eric Braeden
Christian LeBlanc
 Jack Abbott
Victor Newman
Michael Baldwin
 1991,[41] 1992,[42] 2002[38]
1998[34]
2005,[43] 2007[28] 2009[44]
Lead Actress Jess Walton
Michelle Stafford
Jeanne Cooper 		Jill Foster Abbott
Phyllis Summers
Katherine Chancellor 		1997[33]
2004[27]
2008[45]
Supporting Actor Shemar Moore
Greg Rikaart
Kristoff St. John 		Malcolm Winters
Kevin Fisher
Neil Winters 		2000[36]
2005[43]
2008[45]
Supporting Actress Beth Maitland
Jess Walton
Michelle Stafford
Sharon Case 		Traci Abbott Connolly
Jill Foster Abbott
Phyllis Summers
Sharon Newman 		1985[24]
1991[41]
1997[33]
1999[35]
Younger Actress Tracey E. Bregman
Tricia Cast
Heather Tom
Camryn Grimes 		Lauren Fenmore
Nina Webster
Victoria Newman
Cassie Newman 		1985[24]
1992[42]
1993,[26] 1999[35]
2000[36]
Younger Actor Kristoff St. John
David Tom
David Lago
Bryton James 		Neil Winters
Billy Abbott
Raul Guittierez
Devon Hamilton 		1992[42]
2000[36]
2005 [43]
2007[28]

TV Soap Golden Boomerang Awards

Writers Guild of America Awards

  • 2003 "Best Daytime Serial" Written by Kay Alden, Trent Jones, John F. Smith, Jerry Birn, Jim Houghton, Natalie Minardi, Janice Ferri, Eric Freiwald, Joshua McCaffrey, Michael Minnis, Rex M. Best
  • 2006 "Best Daytime Serial" Written by Kay Alden, John F. Smith, Janice Ferri, Jim Houghton, Natalie Minardi Slater, Sally Sussman Morina, Sara Bibel, Eric Freiwald, Linda Schreiber, Joshua S. McCaffrey, Marc Hertz, Sandra Weintraub
  • 2008 "Best Daytime Serial" Written by Lynn Marie Latham, Scott Hamner, Bernard Lechowick, Cherie Bennett, Jeff Gottesfeld, Jim Stanley, Natalie Minardi Slater, Lynsey Dufour, Marina Alburger, Sara Bibel, Sandra Weintraub

Broadcast history

Early years, 1973–80

In spring 1973, CBS decided to discontinue production on two of its four in-house serials; one of these was the controversial Where the Heart Is, a show reminiscent of Peyton Place's sex-driven intrigue that focused on multiple-married characters and incestuous themes. In its place, the network sought a youth-oriented, Los Angeles-based (most soaps at the time still recorded in New York City), socially relevant show, and Screen Gems/Columbia, which had considerable success with NBC's Days of our Lives, got the job as packager. CBS (successfully) insisted that the show be taped at CBS Television City and not at Columbia's Hollywood Studios (which Columbia was in the process of closing down at the time, after it bought majority control of Warner Brothers' Burbank studios). The Bell family wanted to tape The Young and the Resltess at Warner Brothers/The Burbank Studios (which neighbors NBC Burbank, where Days was moved to after the closedown and sale of the Columbia Hollywood studios), but Screen Gems and CBS declined their request.

The Young and the Restless began on March 26 at noon Eastern Time/11 am Central with the handicap of inheriting the affiliate clearance problems attained by Where the Heart Is, especially in conservative small-to-medium-sized markets. It also faced a long-standing audience favorite, with which, ironically, it is now co-owned (via Sony): NBC's Jeopardy!, which had for years been daytime's number-two game.

The Young and the Restless' ascent was slow, but got major boosts from missteps made by the rival networks. First, NBC sent Jeopardy! to a mid-morning slot in January 1974, with the briefly-popular Jackpot! taking its place, only to eventually lose much of the old audience. Next, Password on ABC made the bad decision to convert to an all-celebrity format in November of that year, a move that would lead to its cancellation the following June. More importantly, though, was the fact that Jackpot! had appealed strongly to a demographic of young housewives and mothers, a group whose shift in viewing allegiances would be crucial for The Young and the Restless' continued audience growth.

By summer 1975, ABC and NBC changed up their shows at Noon/11, offering two lightweight games that audiences shied away from, thereby enabling The Young and the Restless to enter the Nielsen serial top three. For its part, NBC would enter into a string of low-rated disasters at that timeslot for the next several years (among them an attempt to revive Jeopardy! in 1978), while ABC similarly struggled until it moved The $20,000 Pyramid there in January 1978. However, Pyramid's time was running out, and the former hit game wrapped up six years on the network in June 1980. The only parts of the country where The Young and the Restless experienced some trouble were those Eastern time zone markets where affiliates plugged the show into the network's half-hour access break at 1 p.m./Noon (in order to free the Noon hour for local newscasts); there, ABC's All My Children would somewhat hinder The Young and the Restless' progress, especially when the former show expanded to an hour in April 1977.

Rise to the top, 1980s

The series made a steady progression to the top of the ratings. When the long-running soap Love of Life ended on February 1, 1980, CBS expanded The Young and the Restless to a full hour the following Monday to further exploit the show's growing popularity. In so doing, it opted to counter AMC and The Young and the Restless' sister show Days of our Lives (on NBC) head-to-head directly at the 1-2/Noon-1 time frame, marking the first time in nearly a quarter-century that the network placed a full-length show in the 1–1:30/Noon-12:30 slot. To those stations that carried the feed directly, namely the Eastern time zone affiliates again, it experienced at best mixed results, while Central time zone stations often tape-delayed the feed one day in order to keep the show in its original slot of 11 a.m., which meant that ABC's Family Feud, then daytime's highest-rated game, gave the soap considerable opposition.

With the less-than-impressive results, CBS reinstated the affiliate break to its traditional time network-wide and, taking into account the local stations' desire for scheduling flexibility, gave them the option of running The Young and the Restless at either noon/11 (the preference of most) or 12:30/11:30 (mostly in the Eastern time zone), on different feeds. Beginning on June 8, 1981, the arrangement proved highly popular with fans all over the U.S., and the show has stayed put ever since. The wisdom of CBS' decision was confirmed by the continued downfall of NBC's ratings at midday and the eroding popularity of Feud, which by this time aired also as a five-day-per-week syndicated strip on local stations in the early-evening Access slots, something which likely brought the Richard Dawson-hosted game overexposure and consequent audience backlash. Also, another family-and-youth-oriented serial, ABC's Ryan's Hope, had never performed to network expectations in its 12:30/11:30 slot and proved no threat to The Young and the Restless at all.

Eroding ratings and the negative impact of the O.J. Simpson trial, 1990s

All this propelled the soap to the top among CBS' serials, and, after General Hospital spent most of the 1980s on the top of the Nielsens, in 1988, after 15 years on the air, The Young and the Restless knocked General Hospital off the throne to gain the crown; it has held it ever since. However, the triumph has been mitigated considerably by negative developments: The Young and the Restless' ratings have declined steadily since that time. From 1994 to 2006, the show lost a significant share of its audience, from eight million viewers to about six million, despite only attracting nominal competition from the two other traditional networks. This has occurred because of the explosion of viewing alternatives available to cable television viewers, which increased choices dramatically. Further, the steady increase in percentage of women working outside the home has cut the show off from a large segment of its historic audience (and the formerly preferred demographic of advertisers such as food and household products). The Young and the Restless has not been the sole victim of these trends, nor even the main one; all U.S. daytime network serials have witnessed similar declines in their ratings.

The pace of daytime's decline was sped up considerably in 1994 and 1995 by the relentless coverage of the O. J. Simpson murder case following the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman in June 1994. The televised daily courtroom trial of O.J. Simpson lasted from January 1995 – October 1995. Although the network continued to air the show in pattern, stations often instead chose to air live coverage of the trial from CBS Newspath or another news service, thus the series was pre-empted daily by the trial on many stations, which started right at 12:00pm ET/9:00am PT. Instead it aired at various times during the night (sometimes beginning at odd times such as 2:18 a.m.) or not at all, as these stations had to air CBS's fairly new late night block (Letterman then Snyder), followed likely by syndicated programming which was contractually obligated to air at that hour or a updated rebroadcast of the late local news (typically there are sports score updates for the late local news, since West Coast games end around 1:30 AM ET). Many viewers did not know when to set their VCRs and simply gave up watching the show.

Broadcasts outside the United States

Australia In Australia, The Young and the Restless airs on Foxtel's W. Channel at 12 pm, and on the timeshift channel, W2, at 2 pm. Repeats of each day's episode air the following morning at 7:10 am and an omnibus edition airs at 8:10 am on Saturdays. It previously aired on Channel 9 from April 1, 1974 to February 23, 2007, before joining the W. line-up on April 2, 2007. Episodes are 9 months behind those airing in the US at present.

Main article: Screening of daytime soap operas in Australia

Belgium In Belgium, the show airs on RTBF-La Une as "Les Feux de l'Amour" at 12:00 (dubbed in French) and is 3 years behind the U.S.

Brazil In Brazil, the show aired on Sony Entertainment Television for a brief time during the 1990's.

In Mexico, Cablevision on American Network channel 475

Canada In Canada, Global TV airs new episodes a day ahead of CBS in the United States. Most Global stations use The Young and the Restless as a late-afternoon lead-in for their local newscasts[citation needed], but times vary by market. It also airs on NTV in Newfoundland and Labrador which airs new episodes one day ahead, and on E! (Canada) in Kelowna, British Columbia, which is not one day ahead.

  • In the French-speaking province of Quebec, a dubbed version airs on TVA, with the title Les Feux de l'amour (Fires of Love), about eight years after initial airing.
  • In Cyprus the show started from the 1986 season in June 1992 from private channel ANT1 Cyprus and continued until 2002 when ANT1 decided to drop all its foreign soap operas after the end of Santa Barbara.

Finland In Finland the show airs on MTV3 under the title Tunteita ja tuoksuja ("Senses and scents").

France In France, the show screens on TF1 as "Les Feux de l'Amour" (Fires of Love) at 13:55, since August 16, 1989. The show started from episode #3263 (aired on CBS on January 10, 1986), so the first 13 years were never viewed. The episodes are currently 3.5 years behind the US.

Germany In Germany, the show aired on ZDF from March to December 2008. The network canceled the show because of bad ratings. The episodes were two years behind the US and the show is known as Schatten der Leidenschaft (Shadows of the Passion).

Greece In Greece, the show airs on ET1 (Public TV Channel) at 17:00. Episodes are six years behind the US. It's known as Ατίθασα νιάτα (Atithasa niata) (literally Untameable Youth).

India In India, the show began airing in February, 2007 on Zee Cafe at 20:00. The channel started with episodes from 2004.

Italy In Italy, the show aired till October 2009 on Rete 4, using the Italian title Febbre d'amore (Love Fever). Episodes were three years behind the US. The Young and the Restless' first Italian broadcast was in 1983.

  • In the Republic of Macedonia, episodes from 1998 and 1999 were shown on Sitel TV a couple of years ago. Currently, reruns are shown.

New Zealand In New Zealand, The Young and the Restless used to air on TV ONE. Episodes were four years behind the US.

Romania In Romania, the show airs on ProTV at 16:00 as "Tânăr şi neliniştit" and it is around 5 years behind the show in the U.S.

Norway In Norway, The Young and the Restless aired on FEM (TV channel) from 2007–2008 .

Poland In Poland, The Young and the Restless aired from September 1997 to August 2000 on Polsat, with 780 episodes broadcast. On September 1, 2008 the network began airing the show again, starting with episode 7090 from March 2001. The Polish title is Żar młodości, which translates into Fervor of Youth.

  • In Philippines, titled Ang Young Ko on 2 UHF TV stations Promo 42 on UHF Channel 42 or the WPW 59 on UHF Channel 59.

Serbia In Serbia, B92 aired the show briefly in 2007, as "Mladi i nestašni". It also aired on TV Palma for a period of time in the 1990s, titled "Mladi i nemirni".

Slovenia In Slovenia, the show airs on Kanal A as Mladi in nemirni. Episodes currently air from the first half of 2007.

South Africa In South Africa, the show airs on e.tv at 17:10. The Young and the Restless was moved from the 17:30 timeslot to the 17:10 timeslot, after Passions was canceled in South Africa on September 12, 2008. The show was originally aired in South Africa in the early 1990s, dubbed into the Afrikaans language, and entitled 'Rustelose Jare' (Restless Years). In 1999 The Young and the Restless was canceled but the show returned to South African television screens in June 2004, with no overhead foreign translations. Episodes are between 11 and 12 months behind that of the USA.

Sweden In Sweden, the show aired on tv4 and tv3 from 2002–2005. The show was called Makt och begär, which means Power and desire.

Switzerland In Switzerland, the show airs on TSR at 11:10 as "Les Feux de l'Amour" and is 3 years behind the U.S.

Turkey In Turkey, the show used to air on TRT 2. It was called "Yalan Rüzgarı", which means "Wind of Lies" between 1988-1996. The name was derived from the initials of The Young and the Restless.

United Kingdom In the United Kingdom, The Young and the Restless airs mindnight's on the digital channel CBS Drama . The Episodes are 4 years and 8 months behind the US.

Czech Republic In the Czech Republic Mladí a neklidní gets about 2/100 of ranking.[46]

Theme song and other music

Main article: Nadia's Theme

"Nadia's Theme" has been the theme song of The Young and the Restless since the show's debut in 1973. The melody, originally titled "Cotton's Dream", was written by Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr. as incidental music for the 1971 theatrical film Bless the Beasts and Children. The melody was later renamed "Nadia's Theme" after the ABC television network lent the music for Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci's performance during the 1976 Summer Olympics.[47]

Botkin wrote a rearranged version of the piece specifically for The Young and the Restless' debut, which has basically remained unchanged, save for a three-year stint in the early 2000s, when an alternate, more jazzy arrangement of that tune was used. The closing stinger of that arrangement has been used as a mid-show bumper since around 2004 for original CBS airings.

All background music for the show has been composed by first, Don McGinnis, Jerry Winn, and Bob Todd, with Jack Alloco and Jez Davidson assuming the duties in the 1980s. During the 1980s, the show employed a mixture of the original score and new pieces composed by Alloco and Davidson. However, Alloco and Davidson kept all background music within a classical theme, to provide continuity. Two soundtrack albums were released, one in 1974 by Pickwick International Records, and another in 1998 by Paradigm Records. The 1974 release contained many pieces from the original score by Winn, McGinnis, and Todd, while the 1998 release was made up entirely of compositions by Alloco and Davidson. The music composed by Alloco and Davidson makes up 90 percent of the show's score today, supplemented by occasional music from other sources. Music from Winn, McGinnis, and Todd is also still used occasionally. Other background pieces were also utilized from the film soundtrack "Bless The Beasts And Children", an instrumental version of the movie's title tune was used often in the show's early years, last being used in February, 2001. A song titled "Universal Mind" from the Mystic Moods album Awakening (also composed by Winn, McGinnis, and Todd) was used frequently in the first ten years of the show.

Title sequence

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The Young and the Restless logo, seen from January 2, 1984 to December 23, 1999.

The opening title sequence has also become well-known. For many years since the show's debut, it showcased the characters, drawn by an artist, on a white background. For the first year, the character's portraits were seen behind the The Young and the Restless title. For the remaining years until 1984, the characters' headshots were seen to the right of the show's title.

Starting in 1984, the sequence both began and ended with an interlocking Y and R painted on the white canvas in a sweeping brush motion. The logo (and in the earlier years, the drawings) were done by artist Sandy Dvore. The drawings were now sketched with a lighter shade of gray than the previous sketches. The drawings were replaced with live-action shots of the characters in formal or semi-formal wear, still on a white background, in 1988.

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The "red curtain" title card, used from December 24, 1999 until March 28, 2003.

Beginning on December 24, 1999, in an unprecedented move for a main title sequence of a daytime soap opera, the names of the principal cast members were mentioned (whereas previously the main title only showed the cast members' faces); however, Y&R continues to include the main cast members' names in an alternate version of the closing credits once a week. In 2005, The Bold and the Beautiful began showing the performers' names in the title sequence, the only other American soap to do so until February 23, 2010, when General Hospital began using the contract cast members' names in the title sequence. The 1999 version also included live-action shots of the characters, but featured in front of a wind blowing satin red curtain as the background.


On March 31, 2003 the title sequence was given a complete makeover, now featuring black-and-white footage from the series with the actors' names in lower case in red at either the top or bottom of the screen (a possible throwback to the shows early years when the cast members sketches were also black and white). Before and after the footage of the actors is the silhouette of a woman in a form-fitting dress walking toward the camera, shown from the neck down. Although the producers have never confirmed the woman's identity, cast member Michelle Stafford (Phyllis) has admitted to being the woman in question. The opening was last updated to reflect new additions to the cast in June 2006. In an interview in December 2008, co-executive producer Maria Arena Bell stated that updating the opening is "on our minds, for sure. We’re hopeful we can get to that very soon."[48]

For over 25 years, the announcer for the show's opening and closing credits was Bern Bennett, who would tell viewers to "Join us again for The Young and the Restless." In 2003, Bennett retired and CBS hired former casting assistant Marnie Saitta for the job of announcer. In 2006 Marnie Saitta was replaced by cast members announcing for the show.


Closing title

Since the very first episode in 1973, the end credits were always featured on the left side of the screen while the right side consisted of art drawings (1973–1984), the familiar brush stroke logo (1984-1994; 1999–), and the live action cast montage (1994–1999) on the right side of the screen. A longer cut from "Nadia's Theme" was played over the closing, along with the aforementioned announcement "Join us again for The Young and the Restless". As with all daytime soaps until the late 1990s, the cast and crew were not credited in every episode; sometimes, the only thing featured in the credits was the copyright info with the production companies listed and the fact the show was taped at CBS Television City. In 1999, CBS did away with the classic closing in favor of inserting a network promo with the credits listed on the network billboard at the bottom of the screen (the right side from 1999–2005); this is a procedure that has become standard among most channels. However, most international networks still broadcast the traditional closing credits.

Ratings

As of 2009, The Young and the Restless has managed over 1000 consecutive weeks in the #1 spot for daytime dramas .[49] Despite this, the show reached a record low of 4,380,000 viewers on Friday, June 13, 2008. Other lows were 4,392,000 viewers on Friday, October 17, 2008, 4,487,000 viewers on Friday, September 19, 2008, 4,491,000 viewers on Friday, May 9, 2008, 4,548,000 on Thursday, October 16, 2008, 4,563,000 viewers on Friday, October 3, 2008, and 4,805,000 viewers on Friday, August 31, 2007.[citation needed]

When introduced during the 1972–73 season, the show was at the bottom of the ratings, but rose rapidly: ninth by 1974–75 and third by 1975–76. By 1988–1989 it had dethroned long-time leader General Hospital as the top-rated soap, a position it has held ever since.

Main article: List of US daytime soap opera ratings

Daytime History: Highest Rated Week (November 16–20, 1981) (Nielsen Media Research)

Serial Household Rating (Time Slot) Network
General Hospital 16.0 (3-4pm) ABC
All My Children 10.2 (1-2pm) ABC
One Life to Live 10.2 (2-3pm) ABC
Guiding Light 7.9 (3-4pm) CBS
The Young and the Restless 7.3 (11:00–12:00pm) CBS

1995 Daytime Serial Ratings

Rank/Serial Avg. Millions Of Viewers (Per Episode)
The Young and the Restless 7.155
All My Children 5.891
General Hospital 5.343
The Bold and the Beautiful 5.247
One Life to Live 5.152

Before The Young and the Restless was #1

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See also

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