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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3 minutes ago, janea4old said:

 

In addition to all her videos and photos with her brother Jibre and all the cast and crew in Atlanta, Aleah Hordges also did a soao quiz with her coworkers in Cincinnati.

https://www.facebook.com/aleahordges/videos/1329036758408548

 

Some of those were really hard, geez!

yes better trivia than some of the incorrect info on other news sites lately

1 minute ago, janea4old said:

yes better trivia than some of the incorrect info on other news sites lately

as i mentioned upthread — several errors. 

I think Fairmont Crest is to be its own fictional township/village/whatever. I doubt they're going to specifically situate it too much.

I'm just glad they went with DC/MD - it's a much more untapped and interesting locale for this kind of story than ATL atm.

5 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

I disagree.

ATWT's last opening was just all right save for the fact it left out a lot of characters. And GL never really stood out with openings in it's final years. 

13 minutes ago, janea4old said:

 

In addition to all her videos and photos with her brother Jibre and all the cast and crew in Atlanta, Aleah Hordges also did a soap quiz with her coworkers in Cincinnati.   She asked interesting soap history questions.

https://www.facebook.com/aleahordges/videos/1329036758408548

 

Um... these CBS affiliate anchors don't know that Y&R and B&B are still on the air?

6 minutes ago, Vee said:

I think Fairmont Crest is to be its own fictional township/village/whatever. I doubt they're going to specifically situate it too much.

I'm just glad they went with DC/MD - it's a much more untapped and interesting locale for this kind of story than ATL atm.

Fairmont Crest is said to be located in Prince George's County and its seems that a fair number of characters will live in DC.

7 minutes ago, ReddFoxx said:

ATWT's last opening was just all right save for the fact it left out a lot of characters. And GL never really stood out with openings in it's final years. 

I liked the opening and the theme music for the last years of ATWT. lol 

7 minutes ago, ReddFoxx said:

ATWT's last opening was just all right save for the fact it left out a lot of characters.

I think ATWT's last opening was what all soaps need to be in this day and age: just a simple title card with some dramatic "sting" playing underneath (although, I could have done without the globe rolling across the title like some roll-on deodorant).

And I LOVE Kim Zimmer's description of GL's last anniversary opening: a bunch of hairy-ass arms reaching out to other hairy-ass arms, lol.

4 minutes ago, Khan said:

 

And I LOVE Kim Zimmer's description of GL's last anniversary opening: a bunch of hairy-ass arms reaching out to other hairy-ass arms, lol.

What? I had never heard of this!😂😂😂😂😂😂

1 minute ago, Soapsuds said:

What? I had never heard of this!😂😂😂😂😂😂

It's in her book!

25 minutes ago, Khan said:

And I LOVE Kim Zimmer's description of GL's last anniversary opening: a bunch of hairy-ass arms reaching out to other hairy-ass arms, lol.

She really don't hold back, and I love it.

I like the idea of the GL opening with the poem, but the execution is a mess. It doesn't help that, like Frank Valentini at GH, Wheeler had a crippling fondness for the little children employed by the show. So you had little toddlers barely able to speak lines doing half the poem and being indecipherable.

Don't get me started on the Peapack opening and song.

Edited February 22Feb 22 by Vee

4 minutes ago, Vee said:

I like the idea of the GL opening with the poem, but the execution is a mess. It doesn't help that, like Frank Valentini at GH, Wheeler had a crippling fondness for the little children employed by the show. So you had little toddlers barely able to speak lines doing half the poem and being indecipherable.

Don't get me started on the Peapack opening and song.

I hated the voices doing the GL verse, kid and adult. The middle school guidance counselor voice that gave us “Comes baaaaack, into our ownnn” was the worst. I just like a good strong announcer.

ATWT’s last theme was great, but it just did not fit the show at all. That was a teen drama theme.

7 minutes ago, Vee said:

Don't get me started on the Peapack opening and song.

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: love can save the world, but it couldn't save GL, lol.

1 minute ago, All My Shadows said:

I hated the voices doing the GL verse, kid and adult. The middle school guidance counselor voice that gave us “Comes baaaaack, into our ownnn” was the worst. I just like a good strong announcer.

Same here!  Besides, as fond of GL as I'll always be, that epigram?  Not so much.

6 minutes ago, All My Shadows said:

ATWT’s last theme was great, but it just did not fit the show at all. That was a teen drama theme.

The later ATWT stuff was completely anonymous to me. Just soulless, which is how I've found virtually all of Frank's changes to the GH openings and music.

6 minutes ago, Khan said:

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: love can save the world, but it couldn't save GL, lol.

It's the Michael McDonald background vocal guy who always cracks me up. That and 'soap on a rope'.