Unlike NBC’s “Generations,” the short-lived soap that made history in 1989 for featuring a Black family from the start, the main cast of “Beyond the Gates” is predominantly Black.

The Gates, a daytime soap opera featuring a predominantly Black cast, will debut on CBS in 2025, according to Variety.. Initial reports of the series surfaced in March, emerging from development ...

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Stars Tamara Tunie and Karla Mosley join executive producer Sheila Ducksworth at ESSENCE Fest to talk legacy, disruption, and the stories daytime TV’s been missing.

Thirty-five years after “Generations” premiered on NBC in 1991, a new black-led soap opera, “The Gates,” is coming to daytime on CBS.

The show, created by Black soap opera veteran Michele Val Jean, is the dream of producer and lifelong soap fan Sheila Ducksworth. "I've been a lover of soap operas since I was 10 years old, ...

Beyond the Gates represents the first hour-long Black daytime soap opera to debut on a major network, signaling a transformative moment for representation in television. Set to premiere February ...

CBS has officially confirmed a series order for The Gates, an upcoming Black soap opera which will be first new daytime soap opera on a major network since Passions‘ debut in 1999. The network ...

CBS is developing “The Gates,” a soap opera about a wealthy Black family living in a posh, gated community.

CBS, in partnership with civil rights organization NAACP, announced Wednesday its development of "The Gates," a soap centered on a wealthy Black family living in a posh, gated community.

Tamara Tunie attends Making Soap Opera History with CBS's "Beyond the Gates" at The Paley Museum on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, in New York. (Photo by CJ Rivera/Invision/AP) ...