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Seven-time Daytime Emmy winner Josh Griffith, head writer of The Young and the Restless, has decided to leave the CBS soap, TV Insider can confirm.
The show’s cast and crew were informed of the news earlier today.
Griffith has enjoyed a lengthy career in soaps and has deep ties to The Young and the Restless. He began his daytime tenure in 1988 as a writer on Santa Barbara. Three years later, he was named associate head writer of One Life to Live, before being promoted to co-head writer alongside Michael Malone in 1992. After earning a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team in 1994, Griffith departed the ABC soap the following year.
In 1997, Griffith teamed with veteran General Hospital writer Robert Guza Jr. to co-create Sunset Beach. The soap was the first and only daytime drama to be produced by Aaron Spelling and remained on NBC until 1999. Griffith and Malone briefly returned to OLTL in 2003 before Griffith moved on to As the World Turns.
Griffith joined The Young and the Restless in 2006 as a writer and soon added co-executive producer to his résumé, before leaving in 2008. After a brief return from 2012 to 2013, he moved to Days of Our Lives in 2015 as co-head writer, a position he held until 2016.
He returned to Genoa City in 2018 as supervising producer. Following the departure of then-head writer Mal Young, Griffith was promoted to head writer in 2019 and later added executive producer to his duties in 2023. Last month, Griffith stepped down as executive producer, with Sally McDonald taking over those responsibilities, allowing him to focus exclusively on writing.
In TV Insider’s preview for what Griffith had planned for 2026, he teased, “You’ve got to just keep that momentum going. It’s going to be a very exciting, suspenseful, and romantic winter and spring. It’s going to be jam-packed with intrigue, mystery, suspense, and love. We have some fun surprises up our sleeve for 2026.”
Griffith continues in the role for now. There is no word yet on who will be tapped as his successor.
https://www.tvinsider.com/1272325/young-and-the-restless-head-writer-stepping-down-josh-griffith/
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‘Young and the Restless’ Shakeup: Head Writer Josh Griffith Stepping Down...