Darcy Rose Byrnes is an American actress who plays Abigail 'Abby' Carlton on CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) is a major television network and radio broadcaster in the United States. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... The Young and the Restless (commonly abbreviated to Y&R) is an American soap opera that takes place in Genoa City, Wisconsin (named after a vacation spot that series creators William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell visited annually). ...