As 2024 comes to a close, The Young and the Restless executive producer and head writer Josh Griffith previews what’s ahead and looks back on the highlights from the year that was. “I feel really good about the fact that we were able to reestablish the Phyllis [Summers, Michelle Stafford ]/Sharon [Newman, Sharon Case ] battle dynamic and rekindle the friendship between Nikki [Newman, Melody Thomas Scott ] and Jack [Abbott, Peter Bergman ] over her alcoholism,” Griffith reflects. “Him helping her out, especially that wonderful two-hander episode that we did in the in the hotel room [in May] with Peter and Melody, just knocked it out of the park.
” Heather Stevens’ [ Vail Bloom ] murder, which took place in September, had a ripple effect through the town, but especially on Sharon, and was a story driver. “With the whole arc of Heather’s murder and Sharon’s belief that she was guilty and all the people that were affected, I felt like I got to tell my Hitchcock movie finally,” Griffith muses. “The momentum kept going and I just kept finding new directions and new twists to spiral out, with just a killer performance by Sharon Case.
Bringing back Linden [Ashby ] as Cameron [Kirsten] as sort of her vision and muse yielded much more story and much more excitement than I even thought it would. I was excited about it going in, but I wasn’t prepared for how well I think it spun out. And the return of Ray Wise [Ian Ward] and Colleen Zenk [Jordan Howard] was a real .