'Y&R' Writers Bloodbath

[Mark Jeffries]

As a cost-cutting move and a possible workaround if there is a WGA strike, "The Young and the Restless" showrunner Josh Griffith has fired the entire "breakdown" staff of writers, who take the general storyline directions from Griffith and his assistants and set up the structure of the daily episodes to be filled in later by "dialogue" writers, and now intends to do that job himself:

https://michaelfairmantv.com/report-yrs-josh-griffith-pink-slips-entire-breakdown-writing-staff/2023/02/22/

However, it doesn't look good:  Four of the five fired writers are women and one is Black, brought in by the same CBS diversity program that requires quotas for BIPOC contestants on reality comps and game shows (and tries to get the producers to not make the BIPOCs stereotypes).