Beyond the Gates was created by Michael Val Kean who also serves as an executive producer and showrunner alongside executive producers Sheila Ducksworth, Julie Carruthers, Robert Guza Jr., Leon W. Russell, Derrick Johnson, Kimberly Doebereiner and Anna Saalfeld.

CBS has taken a leap of faith, greenlighting the first daytime drama on any network in 25 years, at a time when the genre's future seems to be hanging by a thread. But "Beyond the Gates" - which had its premiere on Feb.

Leslie Gray Streeter joins us to discuss the new CBS Maryland-based soap opera and why she is so excited for the show.

"Beyond the Gates" represents a significant milestone as the first soap opera with an all-Black wealthy family in leading roles.

Soap operas, or melodramas with massive ensemble casts, have been a staple in popular culture for nearly a century. Though long-running soaps like “The Bold and the Beautiful” and “General Hospital” have dominated day-time television for decades,

There's a place viewers can find Karen Huger outside of Real Housewives of Potomac. The reality star brings her Grande Dame personality to the new CBS daytime drama Beyond the Gates. In Touch takes a look at the cast and Karen's role in the soap opera as she awaits sentencing in her DUI case.