Thirty-five years after “Generations” premiered on NBC in 1991, a new black-led soap opera, “The Gates,” is coming to daytime on CBS.

Black firsts in the 21st century are often surprising. “Beyond the Gates” is no exception. The first daytime soap solely focused on a Black family premieres this week on CBS and comes as the ...

CBS plans 'Beyond the Gates,' first new daytime soap in decades, about a wealthy Black family It's been two generations since "Generations," a short-lived NBC soap, premiered in 1989 and made ...

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.

Unlike NBC’s “Generations,” the short-lived soap that made history in 1989 for featuring a Black family from the start, the main cast of “Beyond the Gates” is predominantly Black.

The CBS soap opera debuts on Monday, focusing on a family living in a wealthy D.C. suburb. "This is not your grandmother's soap opera," says star Tamara Tunie.

FIRST SINCE '99 On Monday at 2 p.m. that changes, and how, when "Beyond the Gates" becomes the first new network daytime soap in 26 years, and the first to feature a largely Black cast.

CBS is expanding the daytime soap landscape with The Gates, the first Black-led series in more than three decades. The network announced on Monday, April 15, that The Gates has been greenlit for a ...

Unlike NBC’s “Generations,” the short-lived soap that made history in 1989 for featuring a Black family from the start, the main cast of “Beyond the Gates” is predominantly Black.