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

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

After a 25-year hiatus in new soap launches, the showrunners of "Beyond The Gates" are promising rich storytelling with ...

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

The first soap opera to premiere in more that 25 years will feature a primarily Black cast, a historic breakthrough for a ...

CBS' new daytime drama about a well-to-do Black family in Maryland is pure, glorious soap opera. The last time a broadcast ...

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.

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 ...

CBS debuts Beyond the Gates on February 24 at 2 p.m. ET and 1 p.m. PT, the network’s first new soap in nearly four decades. (Bold and Beautiful, which premiered on March 23, 1987, was the last).

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 ...