Get ready for an exciting holiday season at CBS’s top-rated soap opera The Young and the Restless as headwriter Jamey Giddens teases an upcoming event.
Giddens took to X to post a photo from the set of the CBS daytime drama with Tracey E. Bregman (Lauren Fenmore), Michael Damian Weir (Danny Romalotti), Lauralee Bell (Christine “Cricket” Blair), Michelle Stafford (Phyllis Summers), Michael Grazidei (Daniel Romalotti), and Lily Brooks O’Briant (Lucy Romalotti).
The headwriter teased that he and co-headwriter Dan O’Connor “can’t wait for you to watch Thanksgiving in Genoa City.”
Dan and I can’t wait for you to watch Thanksgiving in Genoa City. #YR pic.twitter.com/jZdHCSZ3ae
— Jamey_Giddens (@Jamey_Giddens) October 1, 2026
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Giddens and O’Connor recently took over the writers’ room at the popular daytime drama, with the duo’s first episode scheduled to air on Wednesday, November 11, 2026. Both writers have been awarded Daytime Emmys and Writers Guild Awards for their previous work. O’Connor for his time on General Hospital and Giddens for his work on Days of Our Lives.
Before joining The Young and the Restless, Giddens daytime career began as a breakdown writer of Beyond the Gates and Days of Our Lives. He was also the creator of Ambitions and ran the writers’ room for Tyler Perry’s Sistas.
O’Connor previously worked on ABC soap opera One Life to Live and was head writer of General Hospital for years.
In addition to working on The Young and the Restless, this winter Giddens will have episodes airing on two other soap operas as he wrote episodes of Days of our Lives and Beyond the Gates that are set to air at the end of this year.
In addition, Giddens also penned the upcoming Lifetime revival of All My Children with former Days of our Lives headwriter Ron Carlivati.
Giddens previously encouraged viewers to tune in to The Young and the Restless now in order to get ready for his upcoming content, writing on X, “Start watching NOW! Fall in Genoa City sets up tons of juicy stories @oconnordanj and I are lucky to inherit as we begin telling new ones! Let’s watch as a Soap Fam!”
Brand new episodes of The Young and the Restless air weekdays on CBS and stream weeknights on Paramount+.