{"id":2017566,"date":"2025-09-12T21:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2017566"},"modified":"2025-09-12T21:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:08:15","slug":"bb-crossover-sexy-new-face-more-to-expect-on-beyond-the-gates-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bb-crossover-sexy-new-face-more-to-expect-on-beyond-the-gates-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018B&B\u2019 Crossover, \u2018Sexy\u2019 New Face & More to Expect on \u2018Beyond the Gates\u2019 This Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cIt\u2019s literally a dream come true,\u201d says Michele Val Jean<\/a>, creator, head writer and executive producer of CBS<\/a>\u2018s newest soap opera, Beyond the Gates<\/a>,<\/em> describing the whirlwind of the past seven months since the show\u2019s launch.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything about it \u2014 from the green light, which I\u2019d never expected, because we don\u2019t live in a world where soaps are greenlit anymore \u2014 to the whole casting process, to being in Atlanta for the first three weeks of shooting, was surreal,\u201d she continues. \u201cThis project had been in the works at that point for four years, and so after all that time, to hear the actors breathe life into the words was just amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the seven-time Emmy-winner, whose r\u00e9sum\u00e9 includes General Hospital<\/a><\/em>, The Bold and the Beautiful<\/a><\/em>, Santa Barbara<\/a><\/em> and Generations<\/a><\/em>, steering her own project is nothing less than a dream realized and a major career milestone. She credits Sheila Ducksworth, president of the\u00a0CBS Studios\/NAACP Venture, as a crucial advocate who believed in her vision from the start. \u201cSheila was the engine that could,\u201d declares Val Jean. \u201cShe always believed it was going to go. And I never believed it was going to go, so I\u2019m happy to have been proven wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

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