In a very positive sign for its future, Beyond the Gates, daytime’s first new network soap opera since 1999, scored with viewers and the Nielsen ratings data for its premiere week of February 24-28th.
Beyond the Gates which goes head to head with General Hospital in their time slot, bested the long-running ABC daytime drama in key demos, according to a report from Soap Opera Network.
In a very positive sign for its future, Beyond the Gates, daytime’s first new network soap opera since 1999, scored with viewers and the Nielsen ratings data for its premiere week of February 24-28th.
Beyond the Gates which goes head to head with General Hospital in their time slot, bested the long-running ABC daytime drama in key demos, according to a report from Soap Opera Network.
Overall, for the key demo of Women 18-49, Beyond the Gates ranked sixth for the week among all daytime broadcast shows with a 0.25 rating. In addition, for Women 25-54 Beyond the Gates also ranked sixth for the week, averaging a 0.39 rating. Both those ratings points were up from the series it replaced, The Talk.
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In fact, Beyond the Gates performance in the 2:00 p.m. ET/1:00 p.m. PT time slot was a CBS television network best over the last few years for Women 18-49 (since the week of March 7-11, 2022) and for the 25-54 demo (since the week of September 27-October 1 2021.)
Overall, Beyond the Gates helped lift the network’s sister shows of The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless. The lead-in to BTG is B&B and they were up in all demos for the week. While Y&R was down in only one demo that of 25-54, they were up in Women 18-49.
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As for General Hospital, the launch of Beyond the Gates marks the first time since the cancellation of As the World Turns in 2010, that the ABC daytime drama has had another show within its genre competing against it in the same time slot. GH was down week-to-week in both the key demos; with an average rating of 0.19 among Women 18-49 and a rating of 0.28 among Women 25-54.
