The first thing viewers of "Beyond the Gates" see is a black Mercedes gliding past manicured lawns and stately estates.

Soap operas, or melodramas with massive ensemble casts, have been a staple in popular culture for nearly a century. Though ...

When Sheila Ducksworth was named president of CBS’ new production partnership with the NAACP back in 2020, one of her first ...

Generations after "Generations," CBS launches the first-ever predominantly Black soap as America grapples with race.

Ozark-Dothan native Sean Freeman is making history as a series regular in CBS’s groundbreaking new soap opera, "Beyond the ...

Clifton Davis has starred in many TV series, but "Beyond the Gates" is his first soap opera. Credit: CBS/Quantrell Colbert This Long Island native, now 79, was never lacking for work and even ...

With Beyond the Gates, CBS Studios and the NAACP are making history by launching the first Black-led daytime soap opera and the first new network soap since Passions premiered in 1999.

pioneers of the soap opera genre. “Beyond The Gates: Welcome To The Neighborhood” will air Monday, Feb. 17 through Friday, Feb. 21 (2:00-2:30 PM, ET; 1:00-1:30 PM, PT) on the CBS Television ...

Beyond the Gates is the first soap opera to be greenlit in 25 years. The story is led by an affluent Black family named the Duprees, starring actress Tamara Tunie, who plays matriarch, Anita ...

A new CBS daytime drama is making history as the first soap opera in decades to feature a Black family at its center. "Beyond the Gates" follows the powerful Dupree family in an affluent Maryland ...