It's been two generations since "Generations," a short-lived NBC soap, premiered in 1989 and made ... stories of this nature before" on network TV. The show features multigenerational families ...

The first soap opera to premiere in more than 25 years will feature a primarily Black cast, a historic breakthrough for a ...

and the first hour-long daytime soap with a predominantly Black cast on network TV. (The last daytime soap focusing on a Black family was NBC's half-hour show Generations, which debuted 1989.) Star ...

Ducksworth decided on a soap, then turned to one of the genre's offscreen stars, Michele Val Jean, a writer who had launched her own career in the late '80s on "Generations" — TV's first soap ...

Unlike NBC’s “Generations,” the short-lived soap that made history in 1989 for ... so they won’t be able to tune in and see TV history being made. But there’s a screening party planned ...

Beyond the Gates has come out of the gate hot, by pulling in viewers and scoring high ratings in its first week on CBS.

but her love for daytime TV didn’t go the distance like ours. Our experience certainly feels meaningful to me, but it’s hardly unique. Soap operas have been bonding generations of women for ...

“It’s one of the biggest undertakings in TV you can ever imagine,” said ... It was inspired by a short-lived NBC soap “Generations,” the first to feature a wealthy Black family in ...

"Beyond the Gates" is opening new doors for Black-forward TV shows in Hollywood ... After the groundbreaking nature of "Generations," Val Jean believes the Black representation in soap operas "went ...