Beyond the Gates on CBS | Cast & Creators Talk New Soap Opera for PaleyImpact

CBS’s groundbreaking new daytime drama, Beyond the Gates, is making history as the first-ever one-hour Black daytime soap opera. In this exclusive PaleyImpact conversation, a Black History Month Experience Presented by Citi, Actors Tamara Tunie (“Anita Dupree”) and Daphnee Duplaix (“Dr. Nicole Dupree Richardson”) and executive producer Sheila Ducksworth talk about the groundbreaking series, which premieres Monday, February 24, on CBS, and will also stream on Paramount+. How Sheila Ducksworth spent decades bringing the first-ever one-hour Black daytime soap opera to the screen. How Tamara Tunie was convinced to return to the world of soaps. Why Daphnee Duplaix worried that producers had ghosted her during the audition process. How Sheila and CBS teamed up with the NAACP and P&G to make the series. What it’s like shooting as many as 100 pages of script pages per day on a frenzied daytime drama production schedule. The joy of working on a series that not only has a predominantly Black cast onscreen, but a predominantly Black crew behind the scenes. The craziest line of soap dialogue that Tamara and Daphnee have ever had to utter. 🔔 Subscribe for more exclusive TV cast interviews and behind-the-scenes content!