Keep up with anything you may have missed with our detailed daily recaps, spoilers and videos of 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 fictional Genoa City (not the real-life similarly-named Genoa City, Wisconsin). First broadcast on March 26, 1973, since its television debut, The Young and the Restless has won 11 Daytime Emmy Awards for Ou