Beyond the Gates: Inside the wealthy black community that inspired a soap opera
"You've got to have money - lots of it," says one resident of the suburb that has inspired a ground-breaking soap opera.
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Who says soap operas are dead? 'The Gates' gives hope for genre's revival.
The last time a broadcast network premiered a daytime soap that was centered on a Black family was in 1989 with NBC’s Generations ... TV expert and Soap Opera Digest columnist Carolyn Hinsey ...
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Come 'Beyond the Gates' for the first Black-led soap opera — the first new network soap in decades
Unlike NBC’s “Generations,” the short-lived soap that made history in 1989 for featuring a Black family from the ... who has been watching soap operas since she was 10 but yearned for more ...
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How 'Beyond the Gates,' network TV's first largely Black soap, is 'rooted in reality'
The show, created by Black soap opera veteran Michele Val Jean ... since "Generations," a short-lived NBC soap, premiered in 1989 and made history as the first to begin with a Black family ...
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Come 'Beyond the Gates' for the first Black-led soap opera — the first new network soap in decades
Unlike NBC’s “Generations,” the short-lived soap that made history in 1989 for featuring a Black ... who has been watching soap operas since she was 10 but yearned for more representation ...