It's full steam ahead on the first new daytime soap opera in a quarter of a century. CBS has announced a series order for The Gates. The series is set to debut in January 2025.
The specific time period, launch date, casting information, and other details will be announced at a later date.
As previously reported by Soap Central, The Gates is a joint venture between CBS Studios and the NAACP. The series will be produced by the CBS Studios/NAACP in partnership with P&G Studios, a division of Procter & Gamble.
Val Jean will also be an executive producer alongside Sheila Ducksworth, Leon Russell, Derrick Johnson, and Kimberly Doebereiner.
While there is no casting news to date, Soap Central put together a list of past and present soap stars as well as non-soap stars that we would love to see living behind The Gates. You can check out that wishful casting here.
Last week, CBS announced that its long-running talk show, The Talk, would be ending in December.
There have been just four soap operas in production since the demise of the short-lived streaming reboots of All My Children and One Life to Live in 2013. The last time a new soap opera premiered was 1999 -- 25 years ago -- when NBC's Passions hit the airwaves.