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    4,500 words of dialogue, 250 times a year: How 'The Young and the Restless' is made

    by Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times Mar 23, 2023 5 minutes
    From left, actor Melody Thomas Scott, co-creator Lee Phillip Bell and actor Jeanne Cooper attend "The Young And The Restless" cake cutting celebrating 900 weeks as the No. 1 rated daytime drama, at CBS Television Studios on April 6, 2006, in Los Angeles.

    On a recent afternoon, Josh Griffith and Amanda Beall were huddled in an office at CBS Television City, brainstorming a way for two characters on "The Young and the Restless" to embark on a brief affair.

    Beall, the show's co-head writer, had an idea. "Bunker sex," she said. "It's tried and true."

    Griffith, the head writer and executive producer, nodded in agreement. "It has to be something where they both realize it doesn't have a future."

    The discussion moved on to the pressing matter of which sets they would need to tell this story: in other words, where would this bunker sex take place? At any given time, "Y&R" has about 10 active sets, and only a few have bedrooms, so that characters on the show are unusually prone to copulating on office desks and living-room sectionals.

    "We have sofas that fans want to burn because so many people

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