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〕 | executive_producer =Jill Farren Phelps (2012–) Charles Pratt, Jr. (2015–) (and others) | producer = ''Supervising Producers'' John Fisher Anthony Morina ''Producer'' Mary O'Leary ''Coordinating Producer'' Matthew J. Olsen ''Associate Producer'' Jimmy Freeman ''See below'' | location = CBS Television City Los Angeles, California | camera = Multiple-camera setup | runtime = 30 minutes (1973–80) 60 minutes (1980–present) | company =Bell Dramatic Serial Company (1973–present) Corday Productions (1973–present) Screen Gems (1973–74) Columbia Pictures Television (1974–2001) CPT Holdings, Inc. (1988-present) Columbia TriStar Television (2001–02) Sony Pictures Television (2002–present) | channel = CBS | picture_format = 480i SDTV (1973–2001) 1080i HDTV (2001–present) | audio_format = Mono (1973–87) Stereo (1987–present) | first_aired = | last_aired = | related = | website = http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_young_and_the_restless/ }} ''The Young and the Restless'' (often abbreviated as ''Y&R'') 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, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin. First broadcast on March 26, 1973, ''The Young and the Restless'' was originally broadcast as half-hour episodes, five times a week. The show expanded to one hour episodes on February 4, 1980. In 2006, the series began airing encore episodes weeknights on SOAPnet until 2013, when ''Y&R'' moved to TVGN (now Pop). Pop still airs the encore episodes on weeknights, starting July 1, 2013. The series is also syndicated internationally. ''The Young and the Restless'' originally focused on two core families: the wealthy Brooks family and the working class Foster family.〔 After a series of recasts and departures in the early 1980s, all the original characters except Jill Foster Abbott were written out. Bell replaced them with the new core families, the Abbotts and the Williamses.〔 Over the years, other families such as the Newmans, Winters, and the Baldwin-Fishers were introduced.〔Worlds Without End, p. 33〕 Despite these changes, one storyline that has endured through almost the show's entire run is the feud between Jill Abbott Fenmore and Katherine Chancellor, the longest rivalry on any American soap opera.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Youngandtherestless.com )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Global.com )〕 Since its debut, ''The Young and the Restless'' has won eight Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series. It is also currently the highest-rated daytime drama on American television. As of 2008, it had appeared at the top of the weekly Nielsen ratings in that category for more than 1,000 weeks since 1988. As of December 12, 2013, according to Nielsen ratings, ''The Young and the Restless'' was the leading daytime drama for an unprecedented 1,300 weeks, or 25 years.〔http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_young_and_the_restless/about/1001688/〕 On January 15, 2014, the series was in the middle of its final year of its 2010 contract, and was renewed by CBS through 2017.〔url=http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_young_and_the_restless/news/1001782/〕 ''Y&R'' is also a sister show to the Bells' other soap opera ''The Bold and the Beautiful'', as several actors have crossed over between shows. ==Production== 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. William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell created ''The Young and the Restless'' in 1972 for the network under the working title, ''The Innocent Years!''〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=() )〕 "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." 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."〔 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.〔 ''The Young and the Restless'' began airing on March 26, 1973, replacing the canceled soap opera, ''Where the Heart Is''.〔 Bell worked as head writer from the debut of the series until his retirement in 1998. He wrote from his home in Chicago while production took place in Los Angeles, California. Originally, Bell wanted to shoot the series in New York, however, CBS executives felt that Los Angeles would be more cost effective.〔 John Conboy acted as the show's first executive producer, staying in the position until 1982.〔 Bell and H. Wesley Kenney became co-executive producers that year until Edward Scott took over in 1989. Bell then became senior executive producer.〔 Other executive producers included David Shaughnessy, John F. Smith, Lynn Marie Latham, Josh Griffith, Maria Arena Bell, and Paul Rauch. In the mid-1980s, Bell and his family moved to Los Angeles to create a new soap opera.〔 During this time, his three children, William Jr., Bradley, and Lauralee Bell, each became involved in soap operas. Lauralee Bell worked as an actress on ''The Young and the Restless''. Bradley Bell co-created ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' with his father. William Bell Jr. became involved in the family's production companies as president of Bell Dramatic Serial Co. and Bell-Phillip Television Productions Inc.〔 "It's worked out very well for us because we really all worked in very different aspects of the show," William Bell Jr. said. "With my father and I, it was a great kind of partnership and pairing in the sense that he had a total control of the creative side of the show and I didn't have even the inclination to interject in what he was doing."〔 After William J. Bell's 1998 retirement, a number of different head writers took over the position, including Kay Alden, Trent Jones, John F. Smith, Lynn Marie Latham, Scott Hamner, Josh Griffith, Maria Arena Bell, and Hogan Sheffer.〔〔〔〔〔 In 2012, former ''General Hospital'' executive producer Jill Farren Phelps was hired as the new executive producer of the soap, replacing Bell. Griffith was also named the sole head writer. On August 15, 2013, it was speculated and reported by several online sources that Griffith had resigned as head-writer of the serial. Further speculation adds that Shelly Altman may take over as the new scribe, alongside Tracey Thomson or Jean Passanante may be brought aboard as co-head scribe. On September 12, 2013, it was announced that Passanante and Altman were named head writers of the show, with Thomson promoted to co-head writer. On September 18, 2014, former ''All My Children'', ''General Hospital'' and ''Santa Barbara'' head writer Charles Pratt, Jr. was named as the new head writer of the show. Passanante, Altman and Thomson have been demoted to breakdown writers. Pratt was also named as co-executive producer sharing the credit with Phelps. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Young and the Restless」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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