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Beyond the Gates, an all-new CBS daytime drama that premieres on Feb. 24, will make history as the first Black soap opera in 35 years following Generations, which ran for 13 months and concluded ...
Beyond the Gates is the first American daytime soap opera to feature a primarily African-American cast since the 1989–1991 NBC soap Generations, which—aside from being Val Jean's first scriptwriting job—was the first serial to feature a Black family from its inception, and to focus primarily on a family of ethnic minorities. [19]
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Bird of the Iron Feather is an American television soap opera that aired on the National Educational Television network from January 19 to March 6, 1970. Created by script writer and radio producer Richard Durham, the series was notable as the first all-Black television soap opera.
The first two episodes were shown together as a two-hour Saturday "sneak preview" of the upcoming series. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The remaining season one episodes were shown on Sunday nights. [ 3 ] The show was the most successful program on The WB at the time, and by April 1996 had been renewed for a second season.
The Gates will be the network’s first new soap opera since The Bold. George Rose/Getty Images For the first time in decades, daytime TV might be getting another soap opera. CBS Studios and the ...
Radio daytime drama serials were broadcast for decades, and some expanded to television. These dramas are often referred to as "soaps", a shortening from "soap opera".That term stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, and Lever Brothers as sponsors [1] and producers. [2]
Bloom got her start on the soap opera The Young and the Restless where she played Heather Stevens from 2007 to 2010. Her time on the series also scored her a Daytime Emmy nomination.