On the heels of CBS announcing the pending demise of chatfest The Talk at the end of this year comes word of the arrival in January 2025 of the new daytime drama The Gates. The series will follow the lives of a wealthy Black family in a posh, gated community.
Michele Val Jean (The Bold and the Beautiful, General Hospital, Santa Barbara) will serve as writer and showrunner. She will executive-produce alongside Sheila Ducksworth, Leon Russell, Derrick Johnson and Kimberly Doebereiner. Val Jean also served as a script writer on Generations, which aired on NBC from 1989-1991, and was the last time a daytime drama centered on an African-American family.
The Gates was developed from the joint venture between CBS Studios and the NAACP. The series will be produced by the CBS Studios/NAACP venture in partnership with P&G Studios, a division of Procter & Gamble.
CBS has not confirmed at what hour The Gates will be airing, but the assumption is it will replace The Talk across the country.
Daytime, at present, remains the home of three veteran network serialized dramas: General Hospital on ABC, and The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful on CBS. After 57 years on NBC, Days of Our Lives officially moved to the streaming platform Peacock in 2022. Once The Gates debuts, it will be back to four network daytime dramas.
