|  Quantrell Colbert/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Earlier this year, CBS announced that they were launching the first new Soap Opera since 1999, and today, they announced when it will debut in honor of the first African-American Daytime Drama beginning production this month.
BEYOND THE GATES is set in a leafy Maryland suburb just outside of Washington, D.C., and in one the most affluent African American counties in the United States. Here you’ll find a posh gated community with winding tree-lined streets and luxurious mansions to call home. 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. And those who live outside these gates are watching closely. These are the places where our characters live, love, work and play. Those who have “made it” and those who haven’t are all trying to navigate life … and some with more grace than others.
BTG stars Tamara Tunie, Clifton Davis, Daphnee Duplaix, Karla Mosley, Alex Alegria, Lauren Buglioli, Brandon Claybon, Timon Kyle Durrett, Sean Freeman, Ben Gavin, Marquita Goings, Jibre Hordges, Jen Jacob, Maurice Johnson, Trisha Mann-Grant, Mike Manning, RhonniRose Mantilla, Ambyr Michelle, Colby Muhammad and Arielle Prepetit.
It is going to be interesting to see if people will tune in. Soaps have been on the decline for over a decade, so can a new show jump start interest? We will find out when it debuts on February 24th.
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|  Photo by: Chris Haston/NBC Days of our Lives is currently in its 60th season. Today, the cast and crew of the Soap Opera got some great news from Peacock. They were picked up for another season.
There was a time when it looked like the show was on its last legs, but like Phoenix, it keeps on rising from the ashes, like Stefano DiMera.
Hopefully, it will be around for many more decades because six of them are not enough.
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In August, General Hospital unceremoniously fired Kelly Monaco. Since then, the actress has not spoken out about her forced departure.
Over the weekened, she broke her silence. She wrote, “Last scene with the Davis girls. still doesn’t make any sense to me.”
It doesn’t make sense to any of us. Monaco joined the Sopa Opera in 2003 Sam McCall, and she quickly became one of the beloved people on the show.
I hope that the first winner of Dancing with the Stars will not be out of work for too long. There is a reason why everyone is pissed that she was let go. She can still make you love her even when you were not supposed to.
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|  (ABC/Christine Bartolucci) The Soap World is shocked today because Soap Opera News is reporting that Kelly Monaco has been fired from General Hospital and her character Sam McCall will be killed off in the Fall.
A source told the site, “Monaco was ‘blindsided’ upon learning of the decision.”
Monaco has been on temporary leave, and the role of Sam is being played by Lindsay Hartley. This is not the first time she has been on leave from the series in recent years.
Could that be why GH is parting ways with one of their more popular characters?
The actress has been a fan favorite since she joined the Daytime Drama in 2003.
General has welcomed back Rena Sofer, Jonathan Jackson, Rick Hearst, and Emma Samms this year. Now, they are saying goodbye to Monaco.
With new writers in place, I am sure she will not be the only one saying goodbye to Port Charles.
Write to me and tell me how you feel about Monaco being written off of the Soap Opera.
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General Hospital has been bringing back a lot of famous residents to Port Charles. And they are not the only Soap Opera doing this.
Today, we found out that Alison Sweeney will reprise her role as Sami Brady in the new year on Days of our Lives. However, she is filming her episodes now.
It has been two years since the actress watched the sands in the hourglass. “We were all trying to figure out how long it’s been; no one could remember!” she told TV Insider. “I remembered Sami’s grand exit storming out of the DiMera mansion. I was interested to hear how and why they were bringing Sami back to town. With Sami it could be anything.”
Over at CBS, a Soap legend made her debut on The Bold and the Beautiful today. Rebecca Budig is playing Dr. Taylor Haynes. who was previously played by Krista Allen. The character of Taylor is best known for being a compassionate psychiatrist, mother to Steffy and Thomas Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood and Matthew Atkinson), her on-and-off romance with Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye) and longtime rivalry with Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang).
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