Beyond the Gates was created by Michael Val Kean who also serves as an executive producer and showrunner alongside executive producers Sheila Ducksworth, Julie Carruthers, Robert Guza Jr., Leon W. Russell, Derrick Johnson, Kimberly Doebereiner and Anna Saalfeld.

CBS' new daytime soap ‘Beyond the Gates’ was launched from the question, 'What if the matriarch of its family had been Diana Ross?'

There's a place viewers can find Karen Huger outside of Real Housewives of Potomac. The reality star brings her Grande Dame personality to the new CBS daytime drama Beyond the Gates. In Touch takes a look at the cast and Karen's role in the soap opera as she awaits sentencing in her DUI case.

Soap operas, or melodramas with massive ensemble casts, have been a staple in popular culture for nearly a century. Though long-running soaps like “The Bold and the Beautiful” and “General Hospital” have dominated day-time television for decades,

"Beyond the Gates" represents a significant milestone as the first soap opera with an all-Black wealthy family in leading roles.

Leslie Gray Streeter joins us to discuss the new CBS Maryland-based soap opera and why she is so excited for the show.