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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31 minutes ago, BetterForgotten said:

Paramount+ from all media accounts has not been profitable and has been a source of concern for Viacom, so even a moderate success on that platform would be notable. 

I've heard this and I wonder why they seem to be struggling so much. They have a pretty big and diverse library. I do think one aspect I find confusing is how Showtime is within the app, but separate which makes it difficult to find those shows/movies. The app definitely isn't very user friendly and doesn't highlight just what they have.

1 hour ago, te. said:

I wonder if CBS Studios will push this on Paramount+/PlutoTV (though I think they're getting rid of the latter) internationally? 

Wait, what?  CBS is getting rid of PlutoTV?  Oh, HELL no!

1 hour ago, Khan said:

Wait, what?  CBS is getting rid of PlutoTV?  Oh, HELL no!

I'd assume they would want to fold it into one platform, but yeah, it's actually my most used streaming app. I wouldn't follow it to behind a paywall though lol. 

2 hours ago, Liberty City said:

I would assume Beyond the Gates would do well in the streaming era. Especially on Paramount+/YouTube, and I can only assume Paramount/CBS will be pulling their best efforts to push the serial on streaming.

When I look at Paramount+ (logged out), I do see Y&R/B&B pretty predominately.

Apparently Netflix France have ordered a musical (!) daily soap opera and has given it a direct order for 90 episodes. So I definitively think it's a question of time before we see a daily soap opera that's specifically developed for streaming at this point. 

2 minutes ago, te. said:

I'd assume they would want to fold it into one platform, but yeah, it's actually my most used streaming app. I wouldn't follow it to behind a paywall though lol. 

While that may one day happen, similar to Amazon's shift to FAST by integrating Freevee into Prime Video across all users, and later disbanding the Freevee brand altogether, currently there are no active plans to do the same with Paramount+ and Pluto TV, at least no current reports of such plans.

It would make sense to have airings on BET in the evening. 

1 minute ago, Marco Dane said:

It would make sense to have airings on BET in the evening. 

Is BET Viacom?

I think they'd have to be real stupid to shutter Pluto. I don't see that happening right away.

I am very curious about this musical soap opera for Netflix lol.

2 minutes ago, John said:

Is BET Viacom?

Yes

3 minutes ago, John said:

Is BET Viacom?

Viacom is defunct.

BET and CBS both fall under the umbrella of Paramount

 

Just now, Marco Dane said:

Yes

Viacom doesnt exist anymore

Edited November 25, 2024Nov 25 by Cheap21

6 minutes ago, Marco Dane said:

It would make sense to have airings on BET in the evening. 

I think that would be a smart, and decent idea, honestly.

BET, like its sister MTV, is basically a wasteland of repeats and marathons of shows at this point. 

Pluto isn’t doing that well (was the top non-YT free service but has been well eclipsed by Roku Channel and Tubi over the course of the past couple of years), but part of it is that Paramount+ is where corporate attention is focused.

 

Notable:

Free services (YouTube, Tubi, Roku) continue strong share gains, except PlutoTV.

Disney corporate (Disney+, Hulu) continues to lose share.

Cable, as usual, losing share much faster than broadcast. https://t.co/WmQzUHmYQc

— TV Grim Reaper (@TVGrimReaper) November 19, 2024

Edited November 25, 2024Nov 25 by Faulkner

20 hours ago, Vee said:

I am very curious about this musical soap opera for Netflix lol.

I don't want to derail the thread, but in case anyone else was curious about this it's apparently this. Maybe we can set something up for it in the Foreign section when it gets closer if it looks half-decent (I am curious about the musical elements, which remind me of Jacques Rivette's musical Up Down Fragile).

3 minutes ago, Vee said:

I don't want to derail the thread, but in case anyone else was curious about this it's apparently this. Maybe we can set something up for it in the Foreign section when it gets closer if it looks half-decent (I am curious about the musical elements, which remind me of Jacques Rivette's musical Up Down Fragile).

Oh wow, thanks Vee! And if not in the Foreign section, perhaps in the Netflix one!

9 minutes ago, Vee said:

I don't want to derail the thread, but in case anyone else was curious about this it's apparently this. Maybe we can set something up for it in the Foreign section when it gets closer if it looks half-decent (I am curious about the musical elements, which remind me of Jacques Rivette's musical Up Down Fragile).

What is this netflix soap? Lets set it up please! I need more details