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Come 'Beyond the Gates' for the first Black-led soap opera — the first new network soap in decades

  • CBS premieres the first Black-led daytime soap opera, 'Beyond the Gates,' marking the first new network soap since 1999 with the release after 'The Young and the Restless' and 'The Bold and the Beautiful'.
  • The show highlights the Dupree family across four generations and is filmed in Georgia, employing about 200 cast and crew members.
  • Sheila Ducksworth, president of CBS Studios, states the show will change daytime television and has 'far-reaching effects.'
  • The series aims to depict real Black excellence with characters like doctors and lawyers, emphasizing representation beyond the typical portrayals of Black wealth.
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'Beyond The Gates' Is The Newest Daytime Soap Opera — And It's Over The Top In The Best Way

The new CBS series has a ton of juicy drama, over-the-top antics, forbidden romances and wild villains.

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Black Excellence Brunch Celebrates Boldly Beautiful ‘Beyond The

Things are about to get dramatically bold and beautiful with the premiere of an all-Black soap opera that was celebrated by the critically-acclaimed Black Excellence Brunch. (L-R) RhonniRose Mantilla, Arielle Prepetit, Karla Mosley, Clifton Davis, Tamara Tunie, Daphnee Duplaix, Colby Muhammad, and Brandon Claybon/ Source: Paras Griffin / Getty The highly-anticipated first-ever predominantly Black soap, Beyond the Gates, was recently highlighted …

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‘Beyond The Gates’: Meet Michele Val Jean, the Writer Who Created Daytime’s First Ever Black Soap Opera

When Sheila Ducksworth was named president of CBS' new production partnership with the NAACP back in 2020, one of her first calls was to Michele Val Jean -- a longtime writer on such soaps as The Bold and the Beautiful, General Hospital, and Generations, the first daytime drama to feature...

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CBS’ Black Soap Opera ‘Beyond the Gates’ Reminds Us That the Present Is the Past

CBS' new soap opera 'Beyond the Gates' is the first-Black led soap in three decades and centers on the affluent Dupree family.

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How 'Beyond the Gates,' network TV's first largely Black soap, is 'rooted in reality'

Generations after "Generations," CBS launches the first-ever predominantly Black soap as America grapples with race.

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Come 'Beyond the Gates' for the first Black-led soap opera — the first new network soap in decades

The first thing viewers of “Beyond the Gates” see is a black Mercedes gliding past manicured lawns and stately estates. That car and the elegant woman behind the wheel is

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