(Quantrell Colbert/CBS via AP) Kimberly Doebereiner, from left, Daphnée Duplaix, Tamara Tunie, Sheila Ducksworth, and Vladimir Duthiers attend Making Soap Opera History with CBS’s “Beyond the Gates” ...

CBS' upcoming soap opera Beyond the Gates is set to premiere on February 24, 2025. This hour-long daytime drama is the first to focus entirely on a Black family, featuring a majority Black cast ...

Sometimes something old can feel refreshingly new. The soap opera is a genre older than the invention of the television, dating all the way back to radio serials of the early 20th century.

The network Monday introduces viewers to the Black soap opera "Beyond the Gates," which follows the powerful Dupree family in the fictional, affluent Maryland community of Fairmont Crest.

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

That car and the glamorous woman behind the wheel are driving into TV history on Monday as CBS begins airing the first Black-led daytime soap opera ... Oscars producers promise fresh energy ...

That car and the glamorous woman behind the wheel are driving into TV history on Monday as CBS begins airing the first Black-led daytime soap opera — and the first new network soap since ...

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 ...

President of the partnership, Sheila Ducksworth pitched the idea of a soap opera. She got the approval and began working with soap writer Michele Val Jean to begin the development process in 2020.

The actress Daphnée Duplaix (background) and the actor Maurice Johnson (foreground) on the set of the new soap opera “Beyond the Gates.”Credit...Eric Hart for The New York Times Supported by ...

Every soap opera trope, including the over-the-top dialogue, dramatic cliffhangers and drawn-out storylines, is present in “Beyond the Gates.” What differentiates this series from others ...