Daytime Drama with Mostly Black Cast, Black Creator in Development at CBS

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CBS NAACP Ventures, in partnership with P&G Studios, has announced a new Daytime Drama in development for CBS. The series, currently titled "The Gates," is touted as being the first Daytime Drama to feature a predominately black cast since the run of "Generations" (see the video for the intro to that show), which ran on NBC. Michele Val Jean, who

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[evett]

this is surprising. I thought they were slowly doing away with daytime soaps.

[setsuna16]

They didn't do it slowly back in the late 00s early 10s. They killed 5 of them in less than 5 years. Since then, though... well... they've managed to stick around.

[monsterlovebosa]

Why don’t they just do soaps novella style, have it run for a few months then end it.

[setsuna16]

Port Charles did a modified novella style for the last few years they were in production. Each 13 week cycle would be a "book" (with one exception) where the story would play out from start to finish, but the narrative remained consistent so the characters would still develop as normal.

[britty_stitches]

They should employ every living Black soap opera actor/writer that got fired, disrespected or mistreated. That would be lovely. Its a nice concept either way. I want a good grown up Russell sister storyline. They were some of my favorites on Passions and I hated everything about how their characters were written after like, the first year.

[setsuna16]

They'll probably land Denise Vasi. And that will just be unfortunate.

[frankthesheep]

why?

[setsuna16]

That baby don't know where she is!

Or at least she didn't know where she was. I suppose after ~15 years she could have learned to act.

[frankthesheep]

This is random. I have so many thoughts. I thoughts soaps were out? why not a primetime show?