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CBS teams up with NAACP for daytime soap

Sheila Ducksworth

NEWS BRIEF: US broadcast network CBS has ordered new daytime soap opera The Gates, which follows the lives of a wealthy black family in a gated community.

The series will premiere in January next year and was developed and produced through a joint venture between CBS Studios and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Michele Val, who previously worked on daytime soap The Bold & The Beautiful, will write and showrun. Val Jean will also be an executive producer alongside Sheila Ducksworth, Leon Russell, Derrick Johnson and Kimberly Doebereiner.

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