CBS introduced some promising information for the way forward for daytime dramas final week when it revealed plans to develop a brand new sudser that will comply with the lives of a rich Black household in a complicated, gated group.
Dubbed The Gates, the serial is from Michele Val Jean, who has written greater than 2,000 episodes of daytime dramas and received a number of Daytime Emmys for her work on The Daring & The Lovely and Normal Hospital. She is going to function author and showrunner and also will govt producer alongside CBS Studios NAACP Enterprise President Sheila Ducksworth, together with Leon Russell, Derrick Johnson and Kimberly Doebereiner.
What CBS didn’t say, nevertheless, is how lengthy every episode of the cleaning soap could be — although it’s seeking to be an hour a day — and the place (or when) it could go on the schedule ought to it earn a sequence pickup. Dropping The Younger and the Stressed is out of the query because the Bell/Sony drama ranks No. 1 in daytime and simply earned a four-season pickup.
Identical goes for The Daring and the Lovely, the Bell serial that’s the No. 2 ranked cleaning soap in daytime and has been renewed by means of fall of 2025.
Killing Let’s Make a Deal or The Value is Proper doesn’t make sense, since each sport reveals have stable rankings, sound budgets, and regularly contribute much-needed specials for CBS primetime.
That leaves The Speak, which stays the lowest-rated present on the CBS daytime lineup. Produced by CBS Studios and now in its 14th season, The Speak just lately underwent change by hiring Rob Crabbe, the previous govt producer of The Late Late Present with James Corden, to exchange longtime EP Kristin Matthews.
Crabbe has already made some much-needed enhancements, like extending the primary act of the present and injecting extra intimate interview segments. However that is solely Crabbe’s first season and he wants extra time to make his mark. For now, The Speak remains to be down double digits in individuals and ladies 18-49, although it stays the third most-watched talker in daytime behind The View and Dwell! With Kelly and Mark.
Most just lately, CBS let go of The Speak‘s present govt, Laurie Seidman, as nicely one of many present’s PR reps as a part of the corporate’s widespread layoffs.
The community has but to announce a fifteenth season pickup for The Speak and for now, has no additional details about the brand new cleaning soap’s timeline — a lot much less the place it could go ought to it earn that pickup.
The choice by CBS Studios to develop a brand new cleaning soap is the results of a partnership with the NAACP and P&G Studios. If picked as much as sequence, The Gates, which Ducksworth has needed to do because the NAACP fashioned the partnership with CBS, would mark the primary time since 1989 {that a} daytime drama revolved round a Black household; the final time was the short-lived Generations on NBC.
There are solely 4 soaps nonetheless in existence. Apart from CBS’ profitable lineup, ABC has Normal Hospital and Peacock has Days of Our Lives.
