New Details Announced (TL; DR) - November 12, 2024:

• Beyond the Gates premieres Monday, February 24, 2025 on CBS. Stream Live and On Demand on Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscription.
• The series will air weekdays at 2:00 p.m. ET/1:00 p.m. PT on CBS.

 

New Details Announced (TL; DR) - September 19, 2024:

• "The Gates" is now called "Beyond The Gates."
• Key Art/Logo for "Beyond The Gates" released.
• Soap alums Tamara Tunie ("As The World Turns"), Daphnee Duplaix ("One Life to Live," "Passions") and Karla Mosley are the first actors officially cast by the show.
• "Beyond The Gates" is a one-hour daytime drama.
• The series is set to premiere in early 2025. Previously, CBS announced it would debut in January 2025.
• CBS has formally announced the series will begin production later this fall in Atlanta; confirming the film location (city), but not studio.
• Robert Guza Jr. ("General Hospital," "Sunset Beach") and Julie Carruthers ("All My Children," "Port Charles") are officially confirmed as executive producers, joining a team led by creator, showrunner, and executive producer Michele Val Jean, and fellow executive producers Sheila Ducksworth, Leon Russell, Derrick Johnson and Kimberly Doebereiner.
• Anna Saalfeld is also a new addition to the executive producer team, having never been previously announced. This makes it eight executive producers behind "Beyond The Gates," the most for a daytime drama series ever.
• P&G Studios, a division of Procter & Gamble, remains on board as a partner on the series which is being developed and produced by the CBS Studios/NAACP Venture, led by Ducksworth.
• An official synopsis has been released for "Beyond The Gates."

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Note: "BTG" will be the official acronym used for "Beyond The Gates" on the SON Community. Posts/threads created should always start with "BTG:" going forward.

For reference, the current soap acronyms are "B&B" (The Bold and the Beautiful), "DAYS" (Days of our Lives"), "GH" (General Hospital") and "Y&R" (The Young and the Restless). "ALL" is for all shows, while "AMC" is for All My Children.

 

• Michele Val Jean’s CBS Daytime Drama ‘The Gates’ Retitled ‘Beyond The Gates’, Sets Early 2025 Launch

 

• Tamara Tunie Returns To Daytime Playing Family Matriarch In CBS Drama ‘Beyond The Gates’

 

• Soap Alums Karla Mosley & Daphnee Duplaix Join ‘Beyond The Gates’

Also, #BeyondTheGates is the official hashtag to be used on social media, per CBS.

Facebook and Instagram pages have been created, but are not active. Will share the link when they are officially available.

 

 

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I will say, based on the first episode, the music scoring of the show might take some getting used to if you’re comparing it to the other daytime soaps. It’s quite different. Y’all will see on Monday. 

Edited February 21Feb 21 by BetterForgotten

30 minutes ago, dc11786 said:

I believe it is Christopher Dunn. 

Thank you!  I compared it with a pic of Christopher Dunn with DAYS writers at the 2023 WGA-West awards.
Christopher Dunn is on the left of that WGA pic (link to getty pic)
Yes that's definitely him at the CBS multisoaps event last night in LA, in the pic with MVJ, Sara Bibel, Carlivati, etc.

Edited February 21Feb 21 by janea4old

Funny story, I had a guy I worked with years ago named Christopher Dunn lol 

10 minutes ago, BetterForgotten said:

I will say, based on the first episode, the music scoring of the show might take some getting used to if you’re comparing it to the other daytime soaps. It’s quite different. Y’all will see on Monday. 

I'm enjoying these little crumbs! Now pondering if it will be more like using popular music or more generic (IMO) music like the opening credits. But the other soaps are generic... so that makes me hope the BTG music will be good!

15 minutes ago, BetterForgotten said:

I will say, based on the first episode, the music scoring of the show might take some getting used to if you’re comparing it to the other daytime soaps. It’s quite different. Y’all will see on Monday. 

So long as it isn't heavily pasted over scenes, I'm good. 👍🏻

Sherri show segment:

 

Hope I'm not duplicating. LOVE this TTunie, a morning show ... 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGTqM05yfGu/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link 

This is very anecdotal but my mom is going to watch the show and she is one of those people who stopped watching soaps after the OJ trial. She saw Dani punch out Hayley and said, "yes! this is right up my alley!". I think BTG will revive many other soap viewers who have been tuned out.

I think the opening tune sounds modern day The Edge of Night. 

13 minutes ago, BetterForgotten said:

Sherri show segment:

 

What a lovely segment (and thank you Chrome for allowing a video to play for once).

CBS Philadelphia Feb. 20, interview with Ms. Tunie and Ms. Duplaix

Despite sounding somewhat generic I like the theme song. P&G soaps always did have generic sounding themes (save for Another World's vocal theme). But this opening is much more elevated than anything ATWT or GL had. 

From TV EXTRA LISTINGS

Makes me so excited to see it!!

 

From the combined CBS soaps event in LA (Feb. 20)
(the "high tea" to celebrate Beyond the Gates)

Y&R publicist Matty Kane on the right

50 minutes ago, ReddFoxx said:

This is very anecdotal but my mom is going to watch the show and she is one of those people who stopped watching soaps after the OJ trial. She saw Dani punch out Hayley and said, "yes! this is right up my alley!". I think BTG will revive many other soap viewers who have been tuned out.

funny, i feel exactly the opposite. i’ve always hated the bitch slaps and cat fights, which for the record, began on ‘dynasty’ in the early 80s and soon infiltrated daytime.

while i’ve been observing and writing about soaps for decades, so have a professional interest, and i will always watch anything with tamara tunie, but if all i knew about ‘beyond the gates’ was from the on-air promos — the slaps, punches, violent outbursts, and scantly-clad couples — i likely wouldn’t be watching.

of course, i will — with great interest.