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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48 minutes ago, BetterForgotten said:

CBS will probably devote one of the last episodes of The Talk to introducing the cast of The Gates, maybe alongside MVJ. 

The hosts will pretend like they’re not bitter about being replaced, and Sheryl can do her fake act about how much she’s looking forward to it and will be watching from day 1. 

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I ❤ your post.

Most TV shows on primetime or streaming (or movies for that matter) don't really get exhaustive promo these days, it's usually a few weeks (or a month or so in advance) when things start to heat up and a press tour is done and spirals into other things. 

6 minutes ago, Chris B said:

But most shows and movies announce casting far in advance. At this point, if they released the cast tomorrow I don't think that would be too soon. 

I will say, one concern I have with them filming in November is that it's going to be a tight turnaround in terms of promo. The show is premiering in January, so they have to hope everything goes right in November so they have stuff to promote with, hopefully starting in December.

But that's primetime television and films, and they usually get the press coverage and late-night promotion that daytime television usually never receives. So they can afford advanced announcements like casting, etc.

5 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

But that's primetime television and films, and they usually get the press coverage and late-night promotion that daytime television usually never receives. So they can afford advanced announcements like casting, etc.

The head of CBS said the intention is to treat The Gates like one of their primetime launches. Everything we've seen so far suggests that'll be the case. Errol even posted about a PR firm being hired specifically to promote this show. I don't think they'll be hurting for promotion.

On 9/10/2024 at 8:54 AM, Faulkner said:

To quote Madame VP, we need fresh shows “unburdened by what has been.”

I can't 😂 

On 9/11/2024 at 12:53 PM, John said:

I would take these "Castings" with a grain of salt unless its CBS and /or MVJ confirming them

Also the Press release they did weeks back said they want actors based in Atlanta

Officially, CBS has not issued any press release about "The Gates" since first announcing it will debut in January 2025. Everything else is through sources, or certain access to information.

@Errol Is Gates the formal new name, or what topics for The Gates will be titled beginning January of 2025?

5 hours ago, Liberty City said:

@Errol Is Gates the formal new name, or what topics for The Gates will be titled beginning January of 2025?

I just put GATES in the title because that makes more sense to me. Not sure how you can abbreviate that like we do for the other soaps, and using the full name makes no sense to me.

Unless the show retitles itself between now and the premiere date, I would think GATES makes the most sense as being the formal title for the show when making topics/threads/posts.

12 minutes ago, Errol said:

I just put GATES in the title because that makes more sense to me. Not sure how you can abbreviate that like we do for the other soaps, and using the full name makes no sense to me.

Unless the show retitles itself between now and the premiere date, I would think GATES makes the most sense as being the formal title for the show when making topics/threads/posts.

Gotcha, because I doubt "TG" would be used.

I just did a very quick dive to see how Michele Val Jean is referring to it in Twi/X posts. 

Every time she's doing this: 

#TheGates

Most recent two examples: 

#TheGates are closed today. It’s my birthday! 🎉🎂🎈

Aug 27
Today was a big day for #TheGates. Wish I could share more but I needed to at least mark it. If you know, you know 🥰
 

Just now, Contessa Donatella said:

I just did a very quick dive to see how Michele Val Jean is referring to it in Twi/X posts. 

Every time she's doing this: 

#TheGates

Most recent two examples: 

#TheGates are closed today. It’s my birthday! 🎉🎂🎈

Aug 27
Today was a big day for #TheGates. Wish I could share more but I needed to at least mark it. If you know, you know 🥰
 

Yes, but that's for social media. We're talking about the SON Community within threads where we don't use hashtags, but abbreviations of each show's title like AMC for All My Children, B&B for The Bold and the Beautiful, SuBe for Sunset Beach or PSNS for Passions.

An abbreviation for The Gates, IMO, doesn't jive with the above format. Therefore, I'm going with GATES unless someone else comes up with a better option.

12 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

Gotcha, because I doubt "TG" would be used.

Agreed. TG reminds me of Tony Geary.

Just to add...

DAYS is the abbreviation for Days of our Lives (although some use DOOL). GATES just has one more letter, so I think it would be fine for The Gates.

For instance, when I release news stories going forward, I plan to use both #TheGates #Gates in my social media posts, even though the latter hashtag might be synonymous with Bill Gates or the Gates Foundation. Hey, more potential eyeballs.

8 minutes ago, Errol said:

Agreed. TG reminds me of Tony Geary.

YUP! My thoughts exactly.

9 minutes ago, Errol said:

Just to add...

DAYS is the abbreviation for Days of our Lives (although some use DOOL). GATES just has one more letter, so I think it would be fine for The Gates.

For instance, when I release news stories going forward, I plan to use both #TheGates #Gates in my social media posts, even though the latter hashtag might be synonymous with Bill Gates or the Gates Foundation. Hey, more potential eyeballs.

Also reminds me of BEACH for Sunset Beach, right? Isn't that what Soap Opera Digest used at one point? To avoid confusion with Santa Barbara?

4 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

YUP! My thoughts exactly.

Also reminds me of BEACH for Sunset Beach, right? Isn't that what Soap Opera Digest used at one point? To avoid confusion with Santa Barbara?

Yes, I believe they did. I think other soap mags at the time did as well. During my online era (1999/2000-present), I've only ever used the full names of the shows or their abbreviations, so BEACH wasn't my thing for that show. Just like PASS wasn't mine for Passions, although it felt like it should have been at times. Haha.

10 minutes ago, Errol said:

Yes, but that's for social media. We're talking about the SON Community within threads where we don't use hashtags, but abbreviations of each show's title like AMC for All My Children, B&B for The Bold and the Beautiful, SuBe for Sunset Beach or PSNS for Passions.

Oh, I see. Yeah, that doesn't work because the only thing it could be would be TG & that won't work at all because of Tony Geary. As it is we have SB, SaBa, SuBe & BEACH & that's all because both Santa Barbara & Sunset Beach would prefer being "SB" & they can't both be. Alternately, people do PSSN, PSSNS, PSNS & some fans of that show, say, NO, spell it out. They are quite sure they do not like ANY of the 3-5 letter abbreviations, possible for it. 

10 minutes ago, Errol said:

An abbreviation for The Gates, IMO, doesn't jive with the above format. Therefore, I'm going with GATES unless someone else comes up with a better option.

I'm sure I will go with whatever the big dogs under whatever porch I happen to be at, are using. You're the big dog here, so GATES it is!!

 

4 minutes ago, Errol said:

Yes, I believe they did. I think other soap mags at the time did as well. During my online era (1999/2000-present), I've only ever used the full names of the shows or their abbreviations, so BEACH wasn't my thing for that show. Just like PASS wasn't mine for Passions, although it felt like it should have been at times. Haha.

🤣 Oh Lordy, I can only imagine the Passions one, haha. It annoys me when I see YandR or even BOLD for The Bold and the Beautiful.