Ratings: CBS' Beyond The Gates Draws 78% Bigger Audience Than The Talk

Beyond the Gates has CBS Daytime fans in a lather.

The first new daytime drama to hit our screens in 25 years is thus far averaging 2.28 million total viewers (with Live+3 playback), an improvement of 78% on what time slot predecessor The Talk averaged in 2024.

Playing a role in that gain is the fact that the three-day streaming numbers for Beyond the Gates are up 7,411% from The Talk's.

Beyond the Gates enjoys a 13.6% gain in viewers with Live+3 playback, stronger than both CBS' The Young and the Restless (10.9%) and The Bold and the Beautiful (12.6%).

The linear-only audience for Beyond the Gates' opening week was virtually tied with that of ABC's General Hospital (2.02 million), while drawing a higher rating with the 25-54 target audience.

CBS notes that the Beyond the Gates audience is comprised of 55% Black viewers, higher than Y&R (29%), B&B (30%) and GH (22%).

The Live+7 audience for Beyond the Gates' series premiere stands at a full 3 million viewers, slightly higher than the previous soap opera launch, NBC's Passions, which drew 2.96 million in the more "live watching"-y era of July 1999. And Beyond the Gates' premiere mustered an audience share of 9 compared to Passions' 7, meaning it nabbed a larger portion of people watching TV.

TVLine readers gave Beyond the Gates' series premiere an average grade of "A-."