Stars Tamara Tunie and Karla Mosley join executive producer Sheila Ducksworth at ESSENCE Fest to talk legacy, disruption, and the stories daytime TV’s been missing.

The team behind CBS's newest daytime drama explains how they kept authenticity in the forefront of what they do.

This past week, CBS’s newest soap opera, Beyond the Gates, took viewers back to the beginning and re-aired the first five ...

The character of Chelsea Hamilton, portrayed by RhonniRose Mantilla, and her sexuality has become a topic of high interest, ...

After five months of airing originals, CBS put the the sudser in repeats for the July 4 holiday week. At least the network ...

The matriarch for CBS's newest daytime drama explains how Beyond the Gates is disrupting daytime, for the better.

On Beyond the Gates, we have the opportunity that many don’t: to re-watch the very first week of our favorite soap and see ...

Like many, Carruthers thought the soaps were expiring. “Beyond the Gates” is happening, she said, because “Sheila made it happen.” Ducksworth has done a little bit of everything in television.

Kimberly Doebereiner, from left, Daphnée Duplaix, Tamara Tunie, Sheila Ducksworth, and Vladimir Duthiers attend Making Soap Opera History with CBS’s “Beyond the Gates” at The Paley Museum ...

Get Ready. The creator, executive producer and head writer of Beyond The Gates, Michele Val Jean, and Executive Producer Sheila Ducksworth recently gave a joint interview to Entertainment Weekly ...

How "Beyond The Gates" ushers in a new era for daytime drama 04:30. Not long ago, soap operas ruled daytime TV. The casts of shows like "General Hospital," "All My Children" and "Days of Our Lives ...

DORAVILLE, Ga. — As a student at Yale University, Sheila Ducksworth often rushed home to indulge in two favorite guilty pleasures. She’d stop for dessert at Durfee’s Sweet Shoppe before ...