ARTICLE: Canadian Broadcaster CHCH Drops ‘Beyond The Gates’ From Schedule, Replaces Soap With Repeats Of ‘The A-Team’ (EXCLUSIVE)

[dragonflies]

Actually didn't the repeats do fairly well if I remember correctly?

[BoldRestless]

How many unrated days does Nielsen give the soaps per year? I wonder if CBS is trying to save money by using them all on reruns so they can produce less episodes. Other soaps use them for holidays and partial preemption days.

[dragonflies]

The reruns are probably cause the Season is shorter compared to YR and BOLD? Given they started in February and the season ends in I think November? 

[Maxim]

https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/69198-article-soap-opera-ratings-report-for-the-week-of-june-30-july-4-2025/#comment-2039094 

 

The show was almost half a million viewers down in total viewership during the week of reruns. If you call that fairly well... ok... but in my opinion it was not a good idea. 

[dragonflies]

Still over a million if it was under a million or got way less then yes I would say that

 

I'm not saying it was a good idea at all

[Maxim]

It lost 500 thousand... or like one third. That to me is HUGE. And when a show loses momentum like that... and people start forgetting where they were and what was going on... or when the new episodes are coming back... people tune out. 

And I haven't said you think it's good idea. I'm saying I don't think it is. If they want they could continue repeating the first week till it's 100 000 left new ones who haven't watched it... but it's bizarre and counter-productive IMO.

 

Edited August 28 by Maxim

[Taoboi]

I thought while it was down, the show still maintained the majority of their audience even in repeats. So bad, BUT good for something so new.

[Liberty City]

My guess is holiday weeks are being navigated around to avoid the usual pre-emptions, as well as possible news break ones.

[Maxim]

At least they should announce these freaking reruns in a more public way this time. Don't make people get the surprise on Monday again... 

[Toups]

I don't think most of Canada gets CHCH - it's based out in a city in Ontario and it's not a main network.  With the show moving to Crave, the rest of Canada will have access to the show (if you have Crave of course).  I just hope Crave doesn't do a one day delay like SlackTV does with DAYS (you're still able to watch DAYS on the same day if you have The Women's Network as part of your TV package).  

[Vee]

I don't remember the week of repeats hurting them last time, either. It's clearly just how the network or some other part of the production manages the show's budget.

I don't bother with worrying about Canada. It's still going to be on a major streamer there.

[bongobong]

This seems like an upgrade or neutral at worst, even if they just air the first 6 months for now. Crave is owned by CTV, Canada's biggest network, so there's a chance that at some point it can air after B&B on the main network. The CTV2 network of stations is another possibility.

CHCH at this point is only relevant for its local news in the Hamilton/Niagara Falls area. Outside of that, it's biggest primetime shows are 20/20 and America's Funniest Videos. The most current shows in its daytime lineup are Matlock & Coach.

Off topic - the Crave release Errol linked to it stated that all episodes of 90210 are coming in September. Did they finally clear the music rights? I saw complaints that when it was on streaming before that full episodes were missing, including the finale.

[ranger1rg]

-- So are we getting a week of BTG repeats for every holiday? Or is it every couple months?

-- The show is 3-4 months ahead in taping, so the only way this makes sense is if it's an intentional cost-cutting move to do fewer episodes per season.

-- I hate it (like most viewers) and I think they should have waited until season 2 to do something like this. It's a new show trying to build momentum, and this is not the answer.

-- And no, holding on to 1M viewers when you normally get 1.5M is not good. Gates needs to work towards 1.6M and demo increases and not be satisfied with decent rerun numbers.

-- The only way I'd be satisfied with this is if CBS does the same to Y&R and B&B, which are both total garbage these days.

[Errol]

Just my opinion, and subject to change come this time next year, but I believe they are stretching the show since they ordered 200 episodes for Season 1. Like The Talk did for Season 15, the season will end in December. I would think Season 2 will include the typical 250 episodes and we shouldn't expect to see these long breaks anymore as the show shouldn't have the typical "we're only producing until..." mindset since anything beyond Season 1 wasn't a guarantee when the show was first greenlit.

[Maxim]

I agree on every point. 

The potential of momentum-killing of a brand new show, the first soap in decades... makes me apprehensive when I hear they are going to be doing the encore again. What are they going to rerun this time? The first encore was tolerated, mostly because of the fact that it was the premiere week. That could draw people in automatically, since it's something they can start from scratch. Now... we are heading for part two of the experiment and I wonder if they have a strategy of which episodes to choose. If it's not the premiere week... it won't be that striking and attention-grabbing. But they can't continue repeating that week all year long, so it's out of the question. 

Why do I care so much about this? - I care, not only because I want Gates to succeed and thrive... but I want the genre to survive and maybe even get a new show in the future. That's why the commercial success of the first new soap opera in such a long time... is kind of important to me. It's my last hope of my favorite genre living on and opening the door to new soaps. (Something I believe is possible if BTG is a success in the future.)  

I'm not panicking yet... quite the contrary, but if I see these encores start to ruin the momentum and lead to lower ratings in the following weeks after them... then I'll be reacting differently. Right now... I'm just watching it carefully.