Ratings Are In! The Young And The Restless/Beyond The Gates Crossover Offers Big Win For CBS

The June crossover event paid off in a big way, with Beyond the Gates posting one of its strongest weeks ever and The Young and the Restless extending its impressive ratings streak.

By Dorathy Gass

Ratings Are In! The Young And The Restless/Beyond The Gates Crossover Offers Big Win For CBSWhile The Young and the Restless/Beyond the Gates June crossover is all but a distant memory, the ratings were recently released, and it proved to be a big win for the soaps’ network, CBS. Learn more about the ratings surge that occurred below.

Key Takeaways

  • The June Y&R/Beyond the Gates crossover delivered a significant ratings boost for both CBS soaps.
  • Beyond the Gates posted its second-highest weekly viewership of the season with 1.796 million viewers.
  • The crossover generated the show’s biggest year-over-year audience increase and its strongest ratings in 15 weeks.
  • Thursday and Friday’s crossover episodes became Beyond the Gates’ most-watched episodes to date.
  • The Young and the Restless topped 3 million viewers for the 20th consecutive week while also gaining audience week over week.

The Crossover Event Did Well In The Ratings

The Young and the Restless/Beyond the Gates crossover occurred during the week of June 8 to 12, where fans saw Y&R favorites, Victor Newman (Eric Braeden), Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman), Diane Abbott (Susan Walters), Abby Winters (Melissa Ordway), Devon Hamilton Winters (James Bryton), and Kyle Abbott (Michael Mealor) enter the land of Fairmont Crest.

The group was attending Martin Richardson’s (Brandson Claybon) political fundraiser; however, a tornado blew through, causing chaos, disaster, and drama along the way.

Social media was buzzing with excitement from the crossover storyline, and now with the ratings in, it looks like the Y&R/BTG event was a success all around.

Ratings Breakdown

According to Soap Opera Network, Beyond the Gates attracted its second-largest viewership of the season during the crossover.

When it came to week-to-week viewership, the new CBS drama saw an increase of +162,000 (1.796 million versus 1.634 million). BTG also saw an increase of +248,000 when compared to the same week in 2025.

This was Beyond the Gates’ largest year-over-year increase to date, with 1.796 million viewers versus last year’s 1.548 million.

It also experienced its best overall viewership in 15 weeks since the week of February 23-27 of this year.

With that said, BTC attracted its largest viewership ever for the Thursday and Friday shows during the crossover.

On the Thursday, June 11 episode, the show averaged 1.83 million fans to watch, while the Friday, June 12 episode averaged 1.84 million.

Meanwhile, The Young and the Restless averaged over 3 million viewers for the 20th week in a row, starting the week of January 26-30 of this year, and saw an increase of 50,000 fans week to week, which drew 3.105 million versus 3.055 million.

Did you catch the major BTG/Y&R crossover back in June? Did you enjoy the storyline?

Share your thoughts in the comment section below. Remember to keep watching the soap on CBS or Paramount+ to find out what happens next.

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Dorathy Gass

    Dorathy has been an avid fan of soap operas since a small child. She has fond memories of curling up in front of the television with her mom, sister, and grandmother watching Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, and Young and the Restless. This love of daytime drama has continued into adulthood, and as a full-time freelance writer, she gets to combine her obsession with soaps and write blogs about it, too!

    She also happens to be a mother of two girls and as a mommy blogger, she's been published multiple times over in Huffington Post Parents and Scary Mommy. Dorathy also blogs about health and wellness, travel, and WWE.