{"id":729782,"date":"2026-06-27T19:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/729782\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T19:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:47:15","slug":"the-young-and-the-restless-head-writer-josh-griffith-is-leaving-cbs-soap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/729782\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Young And The Restless&#8217;\u00a0Head Writer Josh Griffith Is Leaving CBS Soap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-young-and-the-restless\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-young-and-the-restless\" data-tag=\"the-young-and-the-restless\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Young and the Restless<\/a> head writer <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/josh-griffith\/\" id=\"auto-tag_josh-griffith\" data-tag=\"josh-griffith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Griffith<\/a> is leaving the CBS daytime drama, Deadline has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe cast and crew of the soap were informed yesterday of Griffith\u2019s decision to leave the show and his position as head writer. He remains in the position but is expected to leave in the near future. Y&amp;R is on hiatus until Monday, July 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNo word yet on a successor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGriffith is a longtime vet of the soap world, with writing jobs, since the late 1980s, including gigs at As the World Turns, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, One Life to Live, Santa Barbara and Sunset Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe joined The Young and the Restless\u00a0as a breakdown writer in 2006, and has since held such titles as creative consultant, co-executive producer, supervising producer and his current titles of head writer and executive producer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHis work at Y&amp;R has earned him four Daytime Emmy Awards, and he won three others for Santa Barbara and One Life to Live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTV Insider was first to report the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Young and the Restless head writer Josh Griffith is leaving the CBS daytime drama, Deadline has confirmed.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,24467,19332,92],"class_list":["post-729782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-josh-griffith","tag-the-young-and-the-restless","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}