The New York Times

A New Soap Opera Looks to Rekindle the Past While Breaking New Ground

Once a centerpiece of daytime TV, soaps have mostly disappeared. “Beyond the Gates” will try to revive the genre, and will be the first ever focused primarily on a Black family. The actress Daphnée ...
USA Today

How 'Beyond the Gates,' network TV's first largely Black soap, is 'rooted in reality'

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. The show, ...
Los Angeles Times

‘Beyond the Gates’ is making history, but it’s also a ‘messy and entertaining’ soap

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 ...
WSPA

Come ‘Beyond the Gates’ for the first Black-led soap opera — the first new network soap in decades

NEW YORK (AP) — The first thing viewers of “Beyond the Gates” see is a black Mercedes gliding past manicured lawns and stately estates. The sedan pulls up at an elegant country club and the valets ...