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CBS’ New Daytime Soap ‘Beyond the Gates’ Was Launched From the Question, ‘What If the Matriarch of Its Family Had Been Diana Ross?’
CBS' new daytime soap ‘Beyond the Gates’ was launched from the question, 'What if the matriarch of its family had been Diana Ross?'
“I didn’t think it would happen — I’m still a little stunned,” says Michele Val Jean, the seven-time Daytime Emmy winner who’s the creator of “Beyond the Gates.” She was first approached four years ago by executive producer Sheila Ducksworth about writing a bible for a Black soap. Set in a fictional Maryland suburb outside of Washington D.C., in one the most prosperous African American counties in the country, the powerful and prestigious Dupree family is the center of the community. That was how Val Jean began to map out the Dupree family’s matriarch and patriarch, Anita and Vernon, played by soap vets Tamara Tunie and Clifton Davis.
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