The new CBS daytime soap opera first known as The Gates has changed its name. Beyond the Gates has begun casting and has hired three daytime veterans in leading lady roles.
Big-name soap stars on Beyond the Gates
Tamara Tunie, Karla Mosley, and Daphnee Duplaix will play three key characters on the new soap, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Tunie is best known to soap fans for playing As the World Turns' Jessica Griffin on and off from 1987 to 2007. Tunie also had a multi-season role on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. She will play matriarch Anita Dupree. Anita once had a successful singing career and is married to a retired United States Senator.
Mosley came to daytime fame playing transgender character Maya Avant Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful. Maya fell for and married Brooke and Eric's son, Rick Forrester, but the couple eventually divorced. Mosley will bring Dani Dupree, one of Anita's daughters, to life.
Duplaix is known to soap fans for playing Valerie Davis on NBC's Passions from 2004 to 2008. She later played One Life to Live's Rachel Gannon from 2009 to 2010. Duplaix is set to play Anita's other daughter, Dr. Nicole Dupree. You can find more information about other Beyond the Gates characters here.
Beyond the Gates can make soap history
Beyond the Gates will be the first new daytime soap to premiere in 25 years. The last soap to make its debut was Passions in 1999. It is also the first daytime soap to be produced under a partnership with the NAACP, but the second soap to focus on a Black core family. In 1989, Generations premiered on NBC but aired for under two years.
The new CBS soap is set in Maryland in a suburb of Washington, DC. According to Soap Opera Digest, a press release for Beyond the Gates describes the show as "taking place in a posh gated community with winding tree-lined streets and luxurious mansions to call home."
A further description reads as follows: "At the center of this community are the Duprees, a powerful and prestigious multi-generational family that is the very definition of Black royalty. But behind these pristine walls and lush, manicured gardens are juicy secrets and scandals waiting to be uncovered."
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Beyond the Gates also marks Procter & Gamble's return to the soap opera world. The company produced soap operas through much of the 20th century. The last two soaps under the P&G Productions umbrella, Guiding Light and As the World Turns, were canceled in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
Veteran soap scribe Michele Val Jean, who created Beyond the Gates, will serve as executive producer. She will be joined by other experienced producers and writers Sheila Ducksworth, Robert Guza Jr., Julie Carruthers, Leon Russell, Derrick Johnson, Kimberly Doebereiner, and Anna Saalfeld. Beyond the Gates is set to premiere in early 2025.
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