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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30 minutes ago, Khan said:

You know "The Talk" is bad when we're rushing that show off the air, lol.

I wouldn't say they rushed it.

4 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

I wouldn't say they rushed it.

I don't think it was rushed, either. It's probably ending at the close of a 13-week cycle, and they didn't want to pay for another cycle. TPIR reruns are much cheaper to air and will probably do as well as The Talk in the ratings.

6 hours ago, Liberty City said:

I wouldn't say they rushed it.

No, I'm saying WE are, thinking it's going off the air sooner than it actually is, lol.

8 hours ago, ranger1rg said:

I don't think it was rushed, either. It's probably ending at the close of a 13-week cycle, and they didn't want to pay for another cycle. TPIR reruns are much cheaper to air and will probably do as well as The Talk in the ratings.

Sad but true. I'd heard The Talk wasn't doing well but when I recently looked at the ratings I was surprised just how bad it was doing. The drop off after B&B was pretty shocking. 

Since we don't have much to discuss right now, I have a hypothetical question. If this ends up premiering and doing well, do yall think we will get another soap? Not on CBS, but do you think ABC or NBC will try their hand at it? 

5 minutes ago, Chris B said:

Since we don't have much to discuss right now, I have a hypothetical question. If this ends up premiering and doing well, do yall think we will get another soap?

I'm not sure if we'll get one on broadcast, but it does feel like an inevitability that we'll eventually get a soap exclusively developed for streaming.

With that said, the mouse is experimenting with the All My Children brand with the Lifetime movies...

5 hours ago, te. said:

I'm not sure if we'll get one on broadcast, but it does feel like an inevitability that we'll eventually get a soap exclusively developed for streaming.

With that said, the mouse is experimenting with the All My Children brand with the Lifetime movies...

True. I could see them pivoting to a tv series for that. I wouldn't be surprised if their overall goal is to use those movies as a pilot to see if there is an audience. I know Lifetime is trying to reinvent it's content so I could see an eventual AMC reboot landing there as well. 

I have a hunch that BTG is going to have the melodramatics and the movement of a primetime show. Just a hunch.

8 hours ago, Chris B said:

Sad but true. I'd heard The Talk wasn't doing well but when I recently looked at the ratings I was surprised just how bad it was doing. The drop off after B&B was pretty shocking. 

The moment Sharon Osbourne left is kind of the moment I began tuning out of watching clips/episodes (if I was channel surfing), because it felt like an ever-revolving door of people, and their pretty stable lineup was something I always appreciated (in comparison to the looseness of The View).

 

 

15 hours ago, Chris B said:

I have a hypothetical question. If this ends up premiering and doing well, do yall think we will get another soap? Not on CBS, but do you think ABC or NBC will try their hand at it? 

Good question. I think it depends on what "doing well" means. We're all REALLY excited here about BTG, but it's not going to be a cakewalk to get "good" ratings. My fingers are crossed, but I honestly think ratings won't be as high as we're expecting.

ABC and NBC would have to cancel extensions of their GMA and Today franchises to make room for a new soap, and I have a feeling those afternoon news/entertainment shows are very inexpensive.

I think off-the-hook ratings -- something like those of TPIR or even Y&R -- would open TV execs eyes to more soaps, but I don't expect that to happen.

 

18 hours ago, Chris B said:

Since we don't have much to discuss right now, I have a hypothetical question. If this ends up premiering and doing well, do yall think we will get another soap? Not on CBS, but do you think ABC or NBC will try their hand at it? 

I don’t think NBC ever would on broadcast television. Their affiliates are so fickle and that news show that replaced Days does well enough and costs nothing to make. Maybe on Peacock, if they could produce it as cheap as they do Days. ABC possibly would, or perhaps they would revive one of their cancelled shows.

I really believe the soap opera formate of 5 shows a week could be so beneficial to these streamers. It’s obviously helping Peacock having Days in terms of consistent viewers. Having new and interesting content everyday on platforms that often can go weeks without putting out something that hits with viewers could only help make these companies money.

Imagine if Netflix produced a few less episodes of their big name shows, put that money into producing a 5 day a week soap with the same talent they have in there other productions. I think audience reaction would be very surprising for them. 

Edited December 14, 2024Dec 14 by cody_1990

If BTG  is a success, I could see new Daily Dramas on Hulu & Peacock

Edited December 14, 2024Dec 14 by John

This is bugging me. In this article, 

https://www.soapoperaspy.com/2024/yr-and-bb-spoilers-schedule-changes-coming-for-2025/

It says this

Quote

CBS fans are losing The Talk, their final episode is scheduled for December 24, 2024. In February 2025, a new soap opera, Beyond the Gates, is scheduled to premiere.

Isn't that a different date? IOW, is this wrong? 

12 minutes ago, Contessa Donatella said:

This is bugging me. In this article, 

https://www.soapoperaspy.com/2024/yr-and-bb-spoilers-schedule-changes-coming-for-2025/

It says this
CBS fans are losing The Talk, their final episode is scheduled for December 24, 2024. In February 2025, a new soap opera, Beyond the Gates, is scheduled to premiere.

Isn't that a different date? IOW, is this wrong? 

soapoperaspy is not reliable.

Go with Errol's report
https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/67911-article-cbs-to-air-repeats-of-‘the-price-is-right’-between-‘the-talk’-series-finale-and-premiere-of-‘beyond-the-gates’/

 

23 hours ago, Chris B said:

Since we don't have much to discuss right now, I have a hypothetical question. If this ends up premiering and doing well, do yall think we will get another soap? Not on CBS, but do you think ABC or NBC will try their hand at it? 

Frankly, no.  I think NBC is out of the soaps business - and ABC is just waiting for a good time to cancel GH and call it quits on soaps as well - as both networks are convinced 1) the audiences just aren't there anymore and 2) they could pull down similar ratings AND save money by airing yet another hour of infotainment.

Edited December 14, 2024Dec 14 by Khan