The Young and the Restless (commonly abbreviated as Y & R) is an American soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell, for CBS. The show is set in a fictional town called Genoa City Wisconsin, which is in contrast to real life and not to the village of the same name, the city of Genoa, Wisconsin. [1] First broadcast on March 26, 1973, The Young and the Restless originally aired as episodes of half an hour five times a week. [2] [3] extended to a one-hour episodes on February 4, 1980. [4] In 2006, the series began airing encore episodes on SOAPnet weekdays. [5] The series is also an international union. [6]
The Young and the Restless originally focused on two core areas and families. The rich and the poor of the adoptive family Brooks [2] After a series of reformulations and outputs at the beginning of 1980 all the original characters, with the exception of Jill Foster Abbott issued. Bell, replaced with new core families, the Abbotts and Williams. [2] Over the years, other families, such as Newman and winters are presented. [7] [8] Despite these changes, a story that has gone through almost the entire route of the sample is the feud between Jill Foster Abbott and Katherine Chancellor, the biggest rivalry in an American soap opera. [9] [10]
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 soap opera on American television. From 2008, it was shown at the top of the weekly Nielsen ratings in this category for more than 1000 weeks since 1988. [11] The series, along with NBC's Days of Our Lives, was renovated in 2013 with the option of 2014.
