ARTICLE: ‘The Young and the Restless’ Takes Home 2025 Writers Guild Award For Daytime Drama

[Errol]

The writing team of “The Young and the Restless” took home the 2025 Writers Guild Award for Daytime Drama during Saturday night’s Writers Guild Awards ceremony held at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles and the Edison Ballroom in New York City with actress Justine Lupe (“Nobody Wants This,” “Succession”) presenting.

The Writers Guild Awards is an annual awards show recognizing achievements in screenwriting, television, streaming, news, radio/audio, and promotional writing during the previous calendar year (2024).

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Writers Dave Ryan and Madeleine Phillips accepted the award in person at the Los Angeles ceremony on behalf of the show’s writing team, led by head writer Amanda L. Beall and writers Susan Banks, Jeff Beldner, Marin Gazzaniga, Lindsay Harrison, Marla Kanelos, Rebecca McCarty, Phillips and Ryan.

In a speech, Ryan said, “We’re thrilled to accept this award on behalf of our writing team at ‘The Young and the Restless.’” He added, “Thank you to the guild for this honor. Also, we want to thank our team at CBS, Sony, the Bells and the amazing cast and crew led by our showrunner, Josh Griffith*, who bring 255 episodes to life each year.”

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Madeleine Phillips, Dave Ryan
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Added Phillips: “And, we want to say to our colleagues at ‘Beyond the Gates,’ which is a new soap opera starting in a couple of weeks, we welcome you to daytime. We’re so happy you’re here and we look forward to seeing you here next year. Thank you, so, so much.”

Highlighted clips from submitted episodes preceding the win included scenes of Sharon (Sharon Case) confronting Cameron (Linden Ashby) while Nicholas (Joshua Morrow) tried to calm her, and a May 2024 episode in which Jack (Peter Bergman) doing everything he can, including taking pills to get a distraught Nikki (Melody Thomas Scott) the help she needs.

The last time “The Young and the Restless” took home the coveted award was in 2020, representing the calendar year 2019. This win also marks the sixth time since the category’s creation in 1973 (representing content written in 1972) that the daytime drama series has taken home the award.

“The Young and the Restless” beat out “Days of our Lives” and “General Hospital,” the other two nominees in the category. “Days of our Lives” took home the award for the last four consecutive years, while “The Bold and the Beautiful” did not submit itself for contention.

Note*: Due to his going fi-core status during the 2007/2008 writers’ strike, Josh Griffith, the show’s head writer and executive producer, is ineligible for a WGA nomination (see story).

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[janea4old]

I noticed that Dave Ryan was included within the nominations for writing teams for *both* DAYS and Y&R, as he was part of the writing teams for both shows during different parts of the year.

This was the livestream of the Los Angeles WGA ceremony
(the youtube length is 2 hours, 46 minutes, but the first 30 minutes are blank space waiting for it to start).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD3hLppxq_U
(scroll to timestamp 1:21 to see the Daytime award with tiny clips from the nominated shows, and then the Y&R acceptance speech.)

At the simultaneous ceremony for WGA-East, held in New York, these writers from Y&R were present: Jeff Beldner and Marin Gazzaniga.
The WGA-E video isn't up yet, but you can see pics by going here and selecting "daytime" 
https://dam.gettyimages.com/selects/2025-writers-guild-awards-new-york-ceremony
 

Edited February 16 by janea4old

[janea4old]

^ correction to above WGA-West (Los Angeles) video, the Daytime Drama award is at 1:31:00 (not 1:21:00 as I had typed in prior post)

UPDATE:
The WGA-East ceremony (New York) is up on the WGA-E youtube channel,
and they have a clip for the Daytime Drama award.
In this case, the presenter is actress DeWanda Wise who discusses BTG and then welcomes 
Jeff Beldner and Marin Gazzaniga to the stage to accept the award, and they give the same speech as what WGA-West said.
Here is that WGA-E clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inl2-bjlxSc

Edited February 17 by janea4old

[janea4old]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD3hLppxq_U
Update again:
WGA-West has edited out the first 30 minutes of the original livestream of the youtube,
(the part that had been blank time waiting for the ceremony to start.)
Thus the Daytime Drama award now starts around at 1:01:00.