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It's over already?! I haven't watched a soap live in years, but these episodes of BTG -- even with commercials on chchc.com -- just fly by !

Leslie just told Eva on the phone that Leslie's alter ego is "Sherry Carter" !!!!

Hayley is onto Bill now. Love how she called him out.

Dani doing modeling poses for her mugshots Ha!

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Emily O’Brien interview. https://soaps.sheknows.com/days-of-our-lives/news/772809/theresa-back-tate-baby/ Quoting snippets of what Ms. O’Brien said. (Omitting all the commentary of the article author) O’Brien was surprised that Days was bringing back Theresa. “We shot this last summer — I think July — and I’d gotten a call in maybe April, May, somewhere around there, ‘Are you interested in coming back? There’s something we wanna have you come in for as Theresa.’ “They told me it was only gonna be however long it was gonna be in the storyline around it. So I said, ‘Yeah, sure,’ and there I was, back in the wig, back in the heels, back in Salem.” But If you think Theresa’s coming out of prison having softened on the Holly/Tate relationship, think again. “I don’t think she would ever ease up on that,” O’Brien makes clear. “No, she has always put her foot down about what she thinks of Holly, and how serious she is about making sure that they do not have any sort of romantic relationship again.” But, she chuckles, “there’s only so much you can do when you’re in prison, right?” Brady, O’Brien says, has been keeping Theresa mostly up-to-date on Tate’s problems, but there was still a surprise or two waiting for her! “Obviously,” O’Brien notes, “Sophia was pregnant, so she just assumes, ‘All right, he’s moved on from Holly to Sophia.’” As O’Brien laughs, “Now you’ve got this huge other factor, which is fatherhood. So I don’t know what’s better!” this return isn’t about making things worse for Tate, but to support him, “and to sort of give her blessing about giving up the baby for adoption.” Theresa gets some life-changing news while she’s in town — that doesn’t have anything to do with becoming a grandmother! O’Brien will be back this summer as Gwen once again. (Of that return, O’Brien just says the storyline that lured her back as Gwen, “was very intriguing. That was what I was very receptive to. But I can’t tell you what that story is!”)

New article March 10, 2025, Essay about Civil Disobedience training and how it is passed down through the generations, from one of the organizers from Ferguson, who recently visited Selma at the 60th anniversary of March 7, 1965. https://newsone.com/5992207/selma-edmund-pettus-bridge-60-years-after-bloody-sunday/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hycoCYenXls This is great! thank you for posting. It's Senator Chris Murphy detailing Tr*ump and M*sk corruption and their strategy to "normalize" corruption. Somehow Sen. Murphy got 28 minutes of Senate floor time to speak. This is a detailed and professional presentation. I recommend watching this because it's a way to learn the information without having to watch the awful Tr*mp and M*sk on your screen, and without having newcasters giving their emotional clickbait spin. Just facts, presented clearly and yet it's truly a wake-up -- It has info I hadn't paid attention to, due to being inundated with all the other chaos in the U.S. government recently. The topic is the financial corruption of M*sk and Tr*mp blatantly stealing money and accepting bribes for influence. This information has (understandably) gotten lost inside the other gazillion horrific things the US government is currently doing.

Photo credit Christine Bartolucci for ABC/Disney ( via SOD )

per zap2it.com BET is showing Beyond The Gates on BET as follows: Five consecutive episodes Monday through Friday evenings. AND Two of those five on Saturday afternoon, one after the other. The other three of those five on Sunday afternoons, one after the other. BET is NOT preempted by March Madness basketball. CBS *is* preempted by March Madness basketball March 20 and 21. BET will begin at 10 episodes behind CBS. After March Madness, BET will be 8 episodes behind CBS. BET schedule for BTG: Episode 1 Monday evening March 10 *AND* Saturday afternoon March 15 Episode 2 Tuesday evening March 11 *AND* Saturday afternoon March 15 Episode 3 Wednesday evening March 12 *AND* Sunday afternoon March 16 Episode 4 Thursday evening March 13 *AND* Sunday afternoon March 16 Episode 5 Friday evening March 15 *AND* Sunday afternoon March 16 Episode 6 Monday evening March 17 *AND* Saturday afternoon March 22 Episode 7 Tuesday evening March 18 *AND* Saturday afternoon March 22 Episode 8 Wednesday evening March 19 *AND* Sunday afternoon March 23 Episode 9 Thursday evening March 20 *AND* Sunday afternoon March 23 Episode 10 Friday evening March 21 *AND* Sunday afternoon March 23

https://www.instagram.com/p/DG_hY0TxiQQ/ March 9, 2025 cadymcclain Here’s a sneak peek behind the scenes of “Beyond the Gates,” where they are using the cameras from “Top Gun Maverick” mounted on rolling pedestals to complete a visual look designed by top lighting designer Vince Steib. (Hi Vinnie!) You can see by the screen behind me that they shoot multi-cam. That means there are a minimum of two and up to five cameras rolling at any time. We all have body mics on, but as you can see by the large pedestal in the second photo, there’s also a boom mic (a microphone that is over our heads) that is constantly picking up sound to make sure every gorgeous word is heard! Soaps (or “daytime dramas” as they sometimes prefer to be called) are basically a filmed version of “a play a day.” We shoot up to (and sometimes a little more than) 100 pages. A day. This is fast work, and requires all members of the team both technical and creative to be able to make quick and strong decisions. It takes a lot of focus! I’m proud to be a supporting player (I’m “Pamela Curtis,” bestie to Karla Mosely’s stunning “Dani Dupree” - created and written by the brilliant Michele Val Jean) on this fabulous show! There’s so much wonderful work happening on all levels! Don’t miss an episode! “Beyond the Gates” airs M-F on CBS at 2PM ET, with new shows available the next day on Paramount+. Now’s a great time to binge the first week and catch up on all the DRAAAMAH, darling! @beyondthegatescbs @sheiladucks @michelevaljean @lightningvinnie @karlamose #pamelacurtis #pameladarling .

Cady McClain just posted a behind-the-scenes ig post about how they do the filming. I put it on the behind-the-scenes thread here: https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/66310-btg-history-behind-the-scenes-articles-photos/?do=findComment&comment=2002511 Just mentioning it here for anyone interested. FYI, I don't know if there's anything spoilerish (or not) in what's showing on the camera screens in her images So if you want to be spoiler-free, just read the text of what she wrote, and don't analyze the images too closely.

The high tea was February 20 in Los Angeles, a Paramount/CBS event - a combined event from CBS with actors and staff from Y&R, B&B, and BTG. Same night as Paley Center event in NYC. (Cady and Jon had already been hired long before). It's all starting on page 343 of the BTG behind-the-scenes thread. Edit to add: Well okay I don't know the exact dates Cady and Jon were hired. They were announced around a week before the first BTG airdate, but no idea of their hire dates. Don't know if they were hired at the same time or not. Just that they were announced at the same time.

Already posted here: https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/68297-btg-march-2025-discussion-thread/?do=findComment&comment=2002361 But it's good to post it again. In such a long thread, it's hard to keep up with everything.

Johnny and Allie don't know what happened. They were told something bland as children (likely offscreen) and never questioned it. The topic never arose since the time they were SORASed teens returning to Salem. I don't think they think it was random. They likely assumed they were both conceived out of love. That's why this reveal is important -- if handled correctly

I really love the musical cue from this scene at end of episode #1.

same!

Assume this is a typo. MVJ wrote episodes 1-5. Lynn Martin wrote episode 6.

This is a pretty decent character guide. https://deadline.com/gallery/beyond-the-gates-cast-photos-cbs/1-012-3/ The picture of Thomas is very different from how he appeared at Bill & Hayley's wedding (He was wearing a green suit there). But otherwise the pics are great. And you can see the differences in the shapes of the men's faces, for anyone having trouble telling them apart by haircuts.

I just noticed that, in one of the many prelaunch articles in the mainstream press that outlines who the main characters are.... it says that Vanessa is Dani's neighbor. https://deadline.com/gallery/beyond-the-gates-cast-photos-cbs/1-012-3/ That reminded me of the scene in the first episode, when Vanessa enters via Dani's glass kitchen door at the moment Dani is throwing coffee mugs. Vanessa says "well, so much for stop by for a cup of coffee!" At the time I took it as good friends who have permission to walk into one another's homes. But the idea of a neighbor who stops by via the kitchen door, well, that fits, too.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2025-02-24/beyond-the-gates-soap-opera-cbs copy of same LA Times article without paywall/registration: https://archive.is/GRHtR

DO NOT CLICK to read the entire article. "countylocalnews" is an AI clickbait site containing malware I read the above post plus the rest of the article. It felt like it was written by an AI. Some of the sentences repeated the same idea in slightly different words. They claimed to have info from tweets, etc. I noticed no author and no "about" on the website, nothing about the staff or contact info for "countylocalnews". I looked at some of their other "articles" and they all seemed fake about random topics. I checked and verified. It's an AI clickbait site. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/26/1075504/junk-websites-filled-with-ai-generated-text-are-pulling-in-money-from-programmatic-ads/ Donna, before posting from a site, check that site's "about" page, usually found via a link at the bottom of its homepage or via the site's menu. If it doesn't exist, then it's probably a fake site. Sometimes a site will lead back through several links to a content farm on another continent. So someone exists but only for clicks. That takes a bit of work to search and find. In this case there's nothing at all, so that should have been a red flag. That and the entire writing style was a giveaway that it was not written by a human. I did a "whois" on the domain name countylocalnews.com, and their contact person is based in Nigeria. Then I found this: The site is notorious for installing malware! https://web.archive.org/web/20240701162535/https://futurism.com/chatgpt-fake-virus-warnings

I confirmed no UEFA soccer preemptions in March. But there *will* be NCAA basketball preemptions. Thursday March 20 and Friday March 21, all CBS soaps will be preempted for NCAA March Madness basketball. CBS preempts the soaps every year on the third Thursday/Friday of March for basketball. This is nationwide in USA, so chch.com won't have BTG in Canada either. The basketball preemptions are already showing on the CBS listings on zap2it.com. Twelve hours of basketball coverage on March 20.