A soap opera in its purest form, and a well-timed celebration of Black excellence. —Kristen Baldwin, TV Critic Read EW's interview with Beyond the Gates series creator Val Jean and executive ...

ABC/CBS/Peacock. New Year’s Eve is this week so most soap fans know what that means! Expect your regularly scheduled soap opera programming to be interrupted, usually by the networks airing sports.

New York — It has been more than 25 years since “Passions,” the last new daytime soap opera to air on American network TV, debuted on NBC. And for nearly as long, Michele Val Jean and Sheila ...

FIRST SINCE '99. On Monday at 2 p.m. that changes, and how, when "Beyond the Gates" becomes the first new network daytime soap in 26 years, and the first to feature a largely Black cast.

CBS plans 'Beyond the Gates,' first new daytime soap in decades, about a wealthy Black family It's been two generations since "Generations," a short-lived NBC soap, premiered in 1989 and made ...

A New Soap Opera Looks to Rekindle the Past While Breaking New Ground. Once a centerpiece of daytime TV, soaps have mostly disappeared. “Beyond the Gates” will try to revive the genre, ...

A new soap opera centered on a Black family will be joining the daytime lineup in January 2025. CBS's The Gates is the first new soap in 25 years, and will join the four others remaining on the air.

It is the first new daytime soap opera with a predominantly Black cast since "Generations" premiered in 1989. The last time a new soap opera hit the airwaves was NBC's "Passions" in 1999.

Black audiences see themselves centered in a brand new soap opera : Code Switch B.A. Parker digs into the historical connection between Black Americans and soap operas with the launching of ...

In February, the first new soap opera on broadcast TV in a quarter-century (and the first Black soap opera in 35 years) will launch on CBS. Set in a gated community in a Maryland suburb, “Beyond ...