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 ...

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

The first new soap opera in 26 years and the first with a predominantly Black cast, "Beyond the Gates" is a fun and comforting addition to the genre.

“Beyond the Gates” is true to the daytime soap formula. There’s jaw-dropping drama, over-the-top antics, forbidden romances, ...

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.

Beyond the Gates represents the first hour-long Black daytime soap opera to debut on a major network, signaling a ...

And this week, after more than 13 years, it celebrated its 250th episode in grand soap opera style, with a dramatic wedding, ...

ABC is down to just one soap opera, the venerable “General Hospital.” CBS still airs “The Young and the Restless” and “The Bold and the Beautiful,” but many standards of the genre ...

As a student at Yale University, Sheila Ducksworth often rushed home to indulge in two favorite guilty pleasures. She’d stop ...

New York — It has been more than 25 years since “Passions,” the last new daytime soap opera to air on American network TV, debuted on NBC. And for nearly as long, Michele Val Jean and Sheila ...

Brandono Claybon joins the cast of "Beyond the Gates," a groundbreaking new soap opera celebrating Black lives with a gay ...