The first thing viewers of “Beyond the Gates” see is a black Mercedes gliding past manicured lawns and stately estates.

Soap operas, or melodramas with massive ensemble casts, have been a staple in popular culture for nearly a century. Though ...

CBS' new daytime soap ‘Beyond the Gates’ was launched from the question, 'What if the matriarch of its family had been Diana ...

“Beyond the Gates” is true to the daytime soap formula. There’s jaw-dropping drama, over-the-top antics, forbidden romances, ...

The first new soap opera in 26 years and the first with a predominantly Black cast, "Beyond the Gates" is a fun and ...

After a 25-year hiatus in new soap launches, the showrunners of "Beyond The Gates" are promising rich storytelling with ...

Not long ago, soap operas ruled daytime TV ... an executive producer and president of this CBS/NAACP production. Ducksworth partnered with Michele Val Jean, who serves as executive producer ...

"Beyond the Gates," set in Maryland and shooting in Atlanta, is the first new daytime soap since "Passions" in 1999. Here is why CBS is taking the gamble.

Tunie, whom fans will recognize from her years on “Law & Order: SVU,” has returned to her soap opera roots in CBS’s “Beyond the Gates,” the first daytime serial centered on a Black family in the ...

ABC is down to just one soap opera, the venerable “General Hospital.” CBS still airs “The Young and the Restless” and “The Bold and the Beautiful,” but many standards of the genre ...

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