CBS, NAACP to Develop New Daytime Soap Opera ‘The Gates’ With ‘Bold and the Beautiful’ Writer
CBS and the NAACP are developing a new daytime soap opera under their content partnership.
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CBS Daytime Soap 'Beyond the Gates' Adds 10 to Cast
CBS' new daytime soap "Beyond the Gates" has added 10 additional actors to its cast.
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CBS Daytime Soap ‘Beyond The Gates’ Sets Premiere Date
CBS Daytime Soap 'Beyond The Gates' Sets Premiere Date as Production is Underway in Atlanta.
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Will there be any token White characters in this i wonder..as well as the obligatory boy or girl "from the wrong side of tracks" that one of the supporting cast has feelings for
CBS Sets Bridge Programming For ‘The Talk’ Time Slot Until ‘Beyond The Gates’ Arrives
CBS will air repeats of The Price Is Right in The Talk's time period for two months, until new daytime soap Beyond the Gates premieres Feb. 24.
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‘Beyond The Gates’ Teaser Shows How Dupree Family “Rules This Community” In New CBS Sudser
'Beyond The Gates' Teaser Shows How Dupree Family "Rules This Community" In New CBS Sudser
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The world has changed, and these daytime soap operas will no longer survive in the 21st century.
All of these Housewives shows and other reality shows are just modern day soap operas -
I agree, but they play at night, not during the daytime work hours between nine and five.
that is true - not the same number of housewives at home like in the past
Who Is Joining Beyond the Gates’ Cast? New Soap Actors Revealed
CBS’ Beyond the Gates has found new talents to join its cast in the form of veterans Jon Lindstrom and Cady McClain. Created by Michele Val Jean, Beyond the Gates is a brand-new soap that is set to debut on February 24, 2025. The daily soap will then be available for fans to watch on […] The...
'Beyond the Gates' review: The soap opera America needs now more than ever
'Beyond the Gates,' CBS' new daytime drama about a well-to-do Black family in Maryland, is soap opera in its purest and most entertaining form. Read our review.
Beyond the Gates review: The soap opera America needs now more than ever
CBS' new daytime drama about a well-to-do Black family in Maryland is pure, glorious soap opera.By
Kristen Baldwin
Published on February 24, 2025 08:00AM EST
(From left) Clifton Davis, Tamara Tunie, Karla Mosley, and Marquita Goings in 'Beyond the Gates'. Photo:
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The last time a broadcast network debuted a new daytime drama, a good portion of America believed the President was a criminal, high-profile plane crashes were in the news, and Jay-Z was embroiled in a legal battle.
That was more than a quarter-century ago, when NBC’s Passions premiered in 1999. Call it serendipity or simply the cyclical nature of history, but conditions are once again ripe for a much-needed soapy escape as CBS prepares to unveil its new daytime drama, Beyond the Gates. Created by industry veteran Michele Val Jean (Generations, General Hospital), the new series — which follows the lives and loves of a well-to-do Black family and their gated-community neighbors — is soap opera in its purest and most enjoyable form. More importantly, this well-crafted saga of romance, backstabbing, and dark family secrets is a celebration of Black Excellence at a time when the U.S. government wants us to believe that “diversity” a dirty word.
Daphnée Duplaix and Tamara Tunie on 'Beyond the Gates'.
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“Best of My Love” by legendary girl group The Emotions is playing on the soundtrack as Dr. Nicole Dupree Richardson (Daphnée Duplaix) cruises through the gates of Fairmont Crest, an exclusive neighborhood just outside of Washington, D.C. Nicole is the level-headed daughter of Anita Dupree (Tamara Tunie) — an EGOT-winning singer — and retired Senator/civil rights activist Vernon Dupree (Clifton Davis). The Duprees are pillars of the Fairmont Crest community, which makes the recent drama surrounding their family even more shocking. All of Fairmont is abuzz with the news that Bill Hamilton (Timon Kyle Durrett) — ex-husband of Nicole’s sister, Dani (Karla Mosley) — is planning to marry his much younger girlfriend (and former Dupree family friend) Hayley Lawson (Marquita Goings) at the Fairmont Country Club. Not only is Dani spiraling over the news (she vows to make the “cheaters pay for blowing up my life!”), but Bill’s daughters Naomi (Arielle Prepetit) and Chelsea (RhonniRose Mantilla) are barely speaking to him.
Marquita Goings on 'Beyond the Gates'.
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Beyond the Gates is ready to showcase 'different side of the Black experience' with groundbreaking new soap
After swiftly establishing its juicy, “this gated community ain’t big enough for the both of us” central conflict, Beyond the Gates introduces the other characters in the Duprees’ orbit, whose complicated backstories are designed to provide maximum story fodder. Nicole and her husband, renowned plastic surgeon Ted Richardson (Maurice Johnson), are surrogate parents to Ted’s nephew, Andre Richardson (Sean Freeman), a handsome and flirty photographer whose parents died in a plane crash. Meanwhile, their daughter, Kat (Colby Muhammad), is helping her cousin Chelsea plot an exit strategy from her successful modeling career — unbeknownst to Chelsea’s demanding momager, Dani. Nicole and Ted’s son, Martin (Brandon Clayborn), an ambitious congressman, is haunted by nightmares he can never remember, much to the chagrin of his husband, Smitty (Mike Manning). As Fairmont Crest’s preeminent realtor, Vanessa McBride (Lauren Buglioli) knows all the dirt on her affluent clientele — but even she may be harboring a secret from her heart-surgeon husband, Doug (Jason Graham).
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The above description represents just a portion of the drama Val Jean and her writers manage to set up in the first five episodes of Beyond the Gates. Trust that many of the other hallmarks of an engrossing soap are there: Budding romances, dastardly revenge plots, and blissfully perfect couples who are just one dark secret away from being brought low. And of course, the first week builds up to another soap staple — a wedding — which in this case is less a happy occasion than a platform for a potentially outrageous showdown.
Lauren Buglioli on 'Beyond the Gates'.
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Beyond the Gates trailer introduces the first Black daytime soap in 35 years
A charismatic diva is the cornerstone of any successful soap, and Gates has theirs with Dani. Mosley, who played more grounded characters on Guiding Light and The Bold and The Beautiful, has a great time going bigger, bolder, and bitchier as the scorned and outspoken Dupree daughter. Right now, Dani gets all the best dialogue, and Mosley clearly relishes how these zingers (“I don’t wish you or your whore well!”) taste on her tongue. By contrast, Durrett is playing it a bit too reserved as Dani’s nemesis ex. Bill Hamilton is known to be charming and calculated, a criminal defense attorney who uses his power and influence to offer quid-pro-quo favors to those in his circle. Durrett would do well to ratchet up the sinister vibes just a notch or two; subtlety has no place in soap opera. Tunie brings a regal composure to Anita, though I’m hoping writers will give the veteran actress more rein to explore Mama Dupree’s fierce side. When the matriarch does get fired up, it's a thrill. “You need to remember who you are: A Dupree woman!" she tells a despondent Dani. "We don’t turn our power over to anyone!”
It's an apt sentiment for our current political climate, which goes largely unacknowledged in the Beyond the Gates universe. The closest the show comes to referencing reality in the first five episodes is when Vernon reflects on his accomplishments as a civil rights activist. “Of course, a lot of that work is being undone,” he muses. But soap operas are meant to be an escape from real-world problems, and it makes even more sense here. In the real world, the residents of Fairmont Crest would be living a few minutes away from a White House intent on eradicating their ancestors’ lived experience from the history books. But the Duprees will not be erased — and their story is far too fun to ignore. Grade: B+
Beyond the Gates airs Monday to Friday at 2 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT on CBS
'Beyond the Gates' is making history, but it's also a 'messy and entertaining' soap
The first soap opera to premiere in more that 25 years will feature a primarily Black cast, a historic breakthrough for a genre that is a throwback to an earlier time.
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'Beyond the Gates' star Karla Mosley breaks down that wedding scene: 'Is this completely insane?'
'Beyond the Gates' breakout star Karla Mosley takes EW exclusively inside that explosive wedding cliffhanger and wonders, 'Are people going to roll with it? Or is this completely insane?'
Beyond the Gates' Karla Mosley breaks down that explosive wedding scene: 'Is this completely insane?' (exclusive)
"I keep pushing the boundaries and waiting for them to be like, 'That's too much.' And that has yet to happen," the breakout star says.By Ryan Coleman
Published on February 28, 2025 05:00PM EST
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Warning: This story contains spoilers for the Feb. 28 episode of Beyond the Gates.
Karla Mosley knows what you're thinking. She's thinking it too.
"I keep pushing the boundaries and waiting for them to be like, 'That's too much.' And that has yet to happen," the breakout star of CBS' brand new daytime drama Beyond the Gates tells Entertainment Weekly. The first new soap to debut on broadcast television since 1999, and the first Black-led soap to debut since 1989 just concluded its first week of episodes on a breathtaking cliffhanger. Mosley's Dani Dupree, spurned by her ex-lover, shows up to his wedding with a gold-plated handgun. In the episode's final moment, she fixes it straight at the bride and groom and fires.
Mosley understands that a character as erratic and electrifying to watch as Dani is "the gift that everyone wants. But also, it's scary. It's scary to have someone who's that big, and to make these bold choices. You're like, 'Are people going to roll with it? Or is this completely insane?"
Marquita Goings and Ellie Wang on 'Beyond the Gates'.
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Breaking down the Beyond the Gates premiere — including that Real Housewives cameo and punch
Beyond the Gates premiered this Monday after months of hype, following its historic announcement last spring. The daily daytime drama was created, written, and executive produced by daytime soap vet Michele Val Jean, who started her career out on Generations, TV's first Black soap. Beyond the Gates' first episode brought viewers inside Fairmont Crest, a fictional gated community for the Black elite of a Maryland suburb.
This week's episodes have kicked up plenty of intrigue around Laura (Destiny Love), the assistant to Dani's sister Nicole (Daphnée Duplaix) being run off the road by a masked assailant, Dupree grandson and senator Martin Richardson's (Brandon Claybon) mysterious past, and about half a dozen affairs carrying on around Fairmont. But it's Dani's convulsions of grief and rage around being jettisoned by ex-husband Bill Hamilton (Timon Kyle Durrett) and his intention to marry and move into Fairmont Crest with younger woman Hayley Lawson (Marquita Goings) that demanded viewers' eyes and ears this week.
"I felt inside the ramping up of her despair," Mosley explains, "having to be forced to be at this wedding and watching this man, who she loves with everything and gave up everything for, marrying someone who she thought of as a daughter, who's also younger and beautiful. All these things that are just so frightening, I think, to women in middle age as their kids get older. I just felt like a total pressure cooker the whole time."
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Throughout the week Dani suffered indignity after indignity. The new Mrs. Hamilton waltzing around the Fairmont Crest country club in a flashy leopard trench, her model daughter Chelsea (RhonniRose Mantilla) having to tactfully explain that she doesn't need her overbearing momager anymore, and Bill brutally rejecting her after Dani begs him to come back one last time. ("The desperation, it pains me to see it. What happened to all that pride?")
She did have her moments, though, like landing a sucker punch square on Hayley's face in front of God, the entire Dupree clan, and the Grand Dame of Potomac herself. But more than all the shame and anger, Mosley thinks it was an unexpected tryst with playboy photographer Andre Richardson (Sean Freeman) that galvanized her toward undertaking that terrible, irreversible action.
Beyond the Gates review: The soap opera America needs now more than ever
"For some people that might be a release. It might be like, 'Okay, my life is going to go on. But for her, it just sort of further empowers her to remember, 'Wait, I am amazing. I'm that b----. And I'm going to come and defend what's mine,'" she says.
Timon Kyle Durett and Karla Mosley on 'Beyond the Gates'.
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Though the Duprees vow to stick together through thick and thin, even lining up to glare down Hayley after Dani knocks her halfway to the Lincoln Memorial, matriarch Anita (Tamara Tunie) and patriarch Vernon (Clifton Davis) are forced into an impossible position that requires them to join the ranks of Dani's betrayers.
Martin's mysterious past threatens to catch up to them all. Or, more accurately, Bill threatens to leverage it against the Duprees if they don't do exactly as he says, whenever he says it. Attempting to spare his new bride's feelings when the entire community rejects her wedding invitation, Bill compels the whole Dupree clan to attend — Dani included. In episode one, Vernon gives his daughter an emotional pep talk, telling her, "You're giving that man power he didn't earn. That devotion you gave to Bill? He threw it back in your face and walked away with his little chippie." But by week's end, he gently strong-arms Dani into attending Bill's wedding and can't even explain why.
"It's historical for her. I think she's had to do that so often in her life, growing up the kid of a politician," Mosley says of Dani ultimately caving to her father. "It's like, 'We just have to do this.' 'I don't want to go to this event.' 'Well, this is what we have to do. We're all going to go together. We're all going to wave and parade around.' So I think that that's part of her history, and he's always been the one to be able to connect to her and ground her and get her to do it, but it probably triggers some old stuff there too."
Daphnée Duplaix, Tamara Tunie, and Lauren Buglioli on 'Beyond the Gates'.
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Mosley says she reacted to the wedding scene on the page the same way viewers are likely to react. "I was like, 'What? What now?!' And then, 'How do you do that? How do you sustain that?' She does not relent. I mean, once you pull a gun out, you're all in."
Though Mosley says she "can't think about how the audience is going to receive" Dani while she's playing her out of fear she may "water her down" due to fan pressure, it was important for her to "find the nuance in what she's saying and what she wants. I think that she doesn't ever intend to fire the gun. She wants an apology. It's all emotional."
Beyond the Gates is ready to showcase 'different side of the Black experience' with groundbreaking new soap
The actress can't say much about what's to come for Dani, Bill, Hayley, and the rest of the wedding party. But she does tease that more is in the works in the Dani-Andre department. "I would just say that it's not a one-night stand to her. They have trouble staying away from each other."
That's a hopeful indicator that Dani makes it out of this mess in one piece. But fans are advised to cross their fingers for Bill and Hayley, unless they were rooting for Dani to bring the drama and destruction all along.
Beyond the Gates airs weekdays on CBS at 2 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT, and is also available to stream on Paramount+.
Beyond the Gates' Daphnée Duplaix 'Started Crying' the First Time She Saw Soap's Times Square Poster (Exclusive)
Daphnée Duplaix, who portrays Dr. Nicole Dupree Richardson on CBS' 'Beyond the Gates', tells PEOPLE she became emotional after seeing the show's poster in Times Square. The series is the first hour-long soap opera led by a Black cast.
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