The Beyond the Gates preview video features Dani at the police station after Jacob brings her in. She poses for her mug shot before the scene flips. Ted has Leslie issues . Ted (M

Beyond The Gates has become a revolutionary entry into daytime television, introducing new life to the soap opera genre.

“Beyond the Gates” is true to the daytime soap formula. There’s jaw-dropping drama, over-the-top antics, forbidden romances, intricate plots, vile villains and more. And this only sums up the first week of episodes, which kicked off on Monday at 2 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT on CBS. (The show is also available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+.)

The ratings are in for the first week of Beyond the Gates, and so far so good for the fledging soap on CBS: the daytime drama that’s the first to premiere since Passions in 1999 grew to 2.28 million viewers in L+3, up 78 percent from The Talk last year.

“Oh my God, wait,” announces new nurse Ashley upon seeing her firefighter boyfriend, Derek, wheeled into the hospital on a gurney. She wants to catch up to him and see what in the world is going on that has brought him to her place of work in this condition. “Derek,” she cries out, trying to stop the first responders from taking him away.

Beyond the Gates hit the air with a front-burner story about Dani’s fury that husband Bill dumped her for their daughter’s best friend, Hayley, and now the adulterous couple is getting married at the Dupree family country club — well,

On Beyond the Gates, the Dupree family reign supreme over the estate of Fairmont Crest. However, some fans are not impressed with how they law-bend and are so self-entitled The first two weeks aren't even over for Beyond the Gates,

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.

Beyond the Gates,’ the first soap opera centered on Black characters in more than 35 years, averaged 2.28 million viewers in its first week

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