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The CBS Daytime Thread

only1moore said:
The reviews are in for “Beyond The Gates,” which debuted today (February 25, 2025)…
tvline.com

Beyond The Gates Review: CBS' Historic New Soap Is A Thrilling Throwback With Deep Daytime Roots - TVLine

Premiering Monday, CBS' 'Beyond the Gates' is broadcast TV's first new daytime drama in 25 years. And it's about dang time, says TVLine's Andy Swift.
tvline.com tvline.com
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Thanks sharing this, I was going to add into the already ongoing thread but it is pretty full too.

Additional glowing reviews are coming in from different sources:

ew.com

'Beyond the Gates' review: The soap opera America needs now more than ever

'Beyond the Gates,' CBS' new daytime drama about a well-to-do Black family in Maryland, is soap opera in its purest and most entertaining form. Read our review.
ew.com ew.com

variety.com

CBS’ Black Soap Opera ‘Beyond the Gates’ Reminds Us That the Present Is the Past

CBS' new soap opera 'Beyond the Gates' is the first-Black led soap in three decades and centers on the affluent Dupree family.
variety.com variety.com

 
Bold and the Beautiful isn’t hiding “Steffy’s” pregnancy at all. She’s obviously pregnant, but not on the show. Weird!
 
On Twitter/X, a lot of Beyond the Gates fans are mad that it is replaying the first five episodes June 30 to July 4.

If it is advertised right, they might get some new fans: wanting to start from the beginning. However with the shows available on (paysite) Paramount Plus, having the ability to rewatch episodes has been limited.
 
brian4 said:
On Twitter/X, a lot of Beyond the Gates fans are mad that it is replaying the first five episodes June 30 to July 4.

If it is advertised right, they might get some new fans: wanting to start from the beginning. However with the shows available on (paysite) Paramount Plus, having the ability to rewatch episodes has been limited.
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It is unusual for a broadcast network to rerun an entire week of a daytime drama (i.e. soap opera). The network's will air reruns on holidays or as filler programming (such as ABC did under the "Daytime to Remember" umbrella in spring 1997 between the end of "The City" and the premiere of "Port Charles" or as CBS did between the end of "As the World Turns" and beginning of "The Talk"). I wonder if CBS is doing this to try and attract more viewers, as "Beyond the Gates" seems to be heading in the wrong direction. BTG set a series low viewership of 1.47 million viewers during the week of June 16, making it the least watched daytime soap and dropping farther behind ABC's competing "General Hospital" (1.89 million viewers for that week).
 
JayTN said:
It is unusual for a broadcast network to rerun an entire week of a daytime drama (i.e. soap opera). The network's will air reruns on holidays or as filler programming (such as ABC did under the "Daytime to Remember" umbrella in spring 1997 between the end of "The City" and the premiere of "Port Charles" or as CBS did between the end of "As the World Turns" and beginning of "The Talk"). I wonder if CBS is doing this to try and attract more viewers, as "Beyond the Gates" seems to be heading in the wrong direction. BTG set a series low viewership of 1.47 million viewers during the week of June 16, making it the least watched daytime soap and dropping farther behind ABC's competing "General Hospital" (1.89 million viewers for that week).
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They should put more of the episodes on Pluto Tv to get more viewers.
 
JayTN said:
It is unusual for a broadcast network to rerun an entire week of a daytime drama (i.e. soap opera). The network's will air reruns on holidays or as filler programming (such as ABC did under the "Daytime to Remember" umbrella in spring 1997 between the end of "The City" and the premiere of "Port Charles" or as CBS did between the end of "As the World Turns" and beginning of "The Talk"). I wonder if CBS is doing this to try and attract more viewers, as "Beyond the Gates" seems to be heading in the wrong direction. BTG set a series low viewership of 1.47 million viewers during the week of June 16, making it the least watched daytime soap and dropping farther behind ABC's competing "General Hospital" (1.89 million viewers for that week).
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It’s a new show and they’re taking advantage of a low viewership week to allow folks to catch up and of course boost the show. Being the first new soap in how many eons, of course they’re not following the template of what they do with the longer-tenured shows. Different circumstances, different era.

It was never, ever going to go gangbusters out of the gate. CBS made the decision to get into a slow-build, up-and-down project with the show. 1.47 vs 1.89 is not that bad a gap at this point. Of course they would like to go the other way, but realism would dictate they’d not have a straight path upward.
 
JayTN said:
BTG set a series low viewership of 1.47 million viewers during the week of June 16, making it the least watched daytime soap and dropping farther behind ABC's competing "General Hospital" (1.89 million viewers for that week
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Remember that doesn’t include streaming viewers on Paramount + so we have an incomplete picture of viewership.
 


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