‘Y&R’ Prepares for Major Storyline Reset as Names New Writing Team Stephanie SloaneWed, July 29, 2026 at 11:45 PM UTC 0 'Young and the Restless' Sonja Flemming/CBS The Young and the Restless has found its new writing team, TV Insider can confirm. Jamey Giddens and Dan O’Connor have been named cohead writers of the CBS daytime drama, replacing departing head writer Josh Griffith. The search for Griffith’s successors began at the end of June after he made the decision to step down as head writer, having previously relinquished his executive producer role on the 53yearold soap.
‘Y&R’ Prepares for Major Storyline Reset as Names New Writing Team
Stephanie SloaneWed, July 29, 2026 at 11:45 PM UTC
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The Young and the Restless has found its new writing team, TV Insider can confirm.
Jamey Giddens and Dan O’Connor have been named co-head writers of the CBS daytime drama, replacing departing head writer Josh Griffith.
The search for Griffith’s successors began at the end of June after he made the decision to step down as head writer, having previously relinquished his executive producer role on the 53-year-old soap.
Giddens currently serves as a writer on Beyond the Gates. Prior to joining the newest CBS drama, he wrote for Days of our Lives and its streaming spin-off, Days of our Lives: Beyond Salem. A Writers Guild of America Award and Daytime Emmy winner, Giddens is also nominated for two Daytime Emmys this year for Outstanding Writing Team for a Daytime Drama series for his work on both Beyond the Gates and Days.
Before transitioning to television writing, Giddens made his mark in the soap world as the co-founder and editorial director of the website Daytime Confidential. He also co-created the primetime drama Ambitions with Will Packer, which starred Robin Givens and aired on OWN in 2019.
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O’Connor began his daytime career as a writers’ associate on One Life to Live. After that soap’s cancellation, he joined General Hospital in 2013, where he served in several key creative roles, including associate head writer, breakdown writer and most recently, co-head writer. Like Giddens, O’Connor is both a Writers Guild of America Award and Daytime Emmy Award winner.
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Their appointment marks the first co-head writing team to be hired at The Young and the Restless since Shelly Altman and Jean Passnante shared the role in 2013. Following their departure in 2015, Charles Pratt Jr., Sally Sussman Morina and Mal Young each held the head writer position before Griffith returned to the soap — where he previously worked from 2006-2008 — in 2019.
Griffith remained in the role while the search for his successors was underway. Giddens and O’Connor are set to officially begin next week, with the cast and crew already notified of the change.
According to insiders, the soap, created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell in 1973, is aiming to recapture the classic storytelling style that helped make The Young and the Restless the No. 1-rated daytime drama, a position it has held in the Nielsen ratings since the 1988-1989 season.
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Published: July 30, 2026 at 03:00AM on Source: RED MAG
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