For the second time since its launch in February 2025, “Beyond the Gates” has found a new broadcast home in Canada, with E! landing the television rights to the series for viewers in the north.

As of Monday, January 5, all-new episodes of the daytime drama are available to watch on the network, beginning at 3:00 p.m.

Previously, the soap opera had been airing on CTV Drama Channel, which acquired the Canadian TV rights in September 2025, after the show’s original Canadian broadcaster, CHCH, announced it would not carry “Beyond the Gates” on its 2025-2026 schedule.

E! is the Canadian counterpart to the U.S. cable network of the same name, following a rebrand from Star! under an agreement with Comcast in November 2010. The network airs a mix of originals and rebroadcasts, including “ETalk,” “TMZ,” “TMZ Live,” “The Rookie,” “Battle of the Generations” and “Bob Hearts Abishola,” among others.

After ditching “Beyond the Gates” last fall, CHCH began airing reruns of the 1980s action/adventure drama “The A-Team” and, more recently, repeats of comedies “Laverne & Shirley” and “Charles in Charge” in its former time slot. For its part, CTV Drama Channel has been airing a seemingly endless loop of “Gilmore Girls” repeats 24/7.

On the streaming front, Crave remains the Canadian home for “Beyond the Gates,” with 194 of the 200 episodes produced for Season 1 available to stream on the service — it’s unknown if or when the remaining six episodes from Season 1 will be made available on the platform.

As of Tuesday, January 6, at least the first two episodes of Season 2 had been uploaded to Crave, with the platform continuing to release episodes weekly (Tuesday through Saturday).

Bell Media, which owns Crave, CTV Drama Channel and E!, has not responded to a request for comment from Soap Opera Network.

The TV Watercooler was the first to report the change in Canadian networks for “Beyond the Gates.”

Note: The post E! Lands Canadian Broadcast Rights To ‘Beyond The Gates’ first appeared on Soap Opera Network.

Read More

Just a hunch on my part, but I expect the CTV Drama Channel to be rebranded into something else or shuttered imminently given it has nothing original airing and the branding is not reliant on a third party licensing deal, unlike the E! channel.

Bell Media has been trimming its content offerings and channels for some time now to run leaner. For years it had many specialty channels that it has let go of over the last decade plus.

Edited yesterday at 06:37 PM1 day by DaytimeFan

Here's what I remember about the US soaps airing & moving in Canada. Any corrections/additions welcome:

BTG - CHCH until the end of August, then CTV Drama until the end of 2025. E! in January 2026.

Sunset Beach - CHCH. At least initially it aired at 3 while the Buffalo affiliate aired it at noon. Maybe the last time before BTG that a soap here didn't air at the same time as it does in the US without being a day ahead.

AW - CTV - until the end.

AMC - CBC until the mid 90s, then A Channel (what is now CTV2, then owned by CityTV). The revival was on FX Canada.

OLTL - Same as AMC but I think A Channel stopped airing it it before ABC did.

Days - Global, then WE (same company but on cable) when it went to Peacock in the US.

Y&R - CHCH (apparently), then in the 80s Global bought the rights, airing it a day ahead at 4:30. It moved to 4 a few years ago.

ATWT - CHCH until Passions was cancelled, then Global.

GL - CHCH until the mid 90s, then none for a while? Global at the end?

B&B - Some CTV affiliates. I know for a few years around 1993 it was day ahead in Toronto. I believe at 4 (maybe 330?) to try to get the Y&R viewers to tune in before switching to Global at 4:30. Possibly because of the Sheila/Lauren crossovers. Then CTV in its regular slot. From 2013ish-2023 it was on CTV2 before promoted back to CTV.

GH - Global until 2000, then CTV until 2009?, then A-Channel/CTV2 for a few years (I think CTV bought the stations by then), then CityTV by the mid-2010s to present.

Passions - Replaced AW on CTV initially before moving to Global in 2000 to finish the NBC run. The Direct TV run aired on SuperChannel (pay-tv). Did it air day ahead at 330 leading into Y&R at some point?

There was a rumor that Global & CTV made a deal to swap their rights for GH & Passions in 2000.

Edited yesterday at 10:24 PM1 day by bongobong

Aw was Canada's number one soap. Now y&r

3 hours ago, jasonminer1974 said:

Aw was Canada's number one soap. Now y&r

Huge AW fan here, I remember reading back in the 90s that AW was hugely popular in Canada. Did they cite with reasons of why such popularity?

1 hour ago, Rocket Man said:

Huge AW fan here, I remember reading back in the 90s that AW was hugely popular in Canada. Did they cite with reasons of why such popularity?

It was on CTV across the country since the 70s, long before most people had cable, so it built a massive lead on the others. Y&R overtook it as #1 here before it ended though.

3 hours ago, Rocket Man said:

Huge AW fan here, I remember reading back in the 90s that AW was hugely popular in Canada. Did they cite with reasons of why such popularity?

At the end more people watched in Canada than USA

And when AW was cancelled it was announced on the evening news.

2 hours ago, jasonminer1974 said:

At the end more people watched in Canada than USA

Too bad they didn’t provide viewership data of the show to add into the US figures.

2 hours ago, DaytimeFan said:

And when AW was cancelled it was announced on the evening news.

I remembered that was mentioned, I also recalled that ABC Daytime was actively trying to pick up AW but it didn’t pan out.