All My Children, which ABC canceled in 2011, looks set to find new life again on Lifetime as a TV movie franchise.
A different kind of All My Children
According to TV Line, talks are underway at Lifetime to produce an updated version of All My Children with some of the most popular Pine Valley characters appearing in a new TV movie franchise.
TV Line reports that Lifetime has confirmed that two All My Children movies are already in development, with one slated to be a Christmas movie.
Since the 41-year-old soap's cancellation more than a decade ago, All My Children has been rebooted once. Prospect Park produced a new version of the soap for The Online Network, an early streaming site. The new All My Children debuted in 2013, along with a rebooted version of One Life to Live. Neither soap lasted long as a streaming offer.
Another Pine Valley reboot attempt
In 2020, news broke that current talk show co-hosts and longtime married pair Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos were trying to develop a primetime version of All My Children titled Pine Valley. While the show never got off the ground, it was said to focus on a young reporter attempting to unearth long-buried secrets in the AMC town.
Ripa and Consuelos met on the AMC set in 1995, where Ripa played Hayley Vaughan and Consuelos played Mateo Santos. Hayley and Mateo also became husband and wife on-screen.
While General Hospital remains the only ABC soap, All My Children characters live on in Port Charles. The Deception crowd often mentions AMC's Erica Kane, who owned a cosmetics company like Deception. In fact, one of Erica's great loves, Walt Willey's Jackson Montgomery, appeared on GH last year as part of a Deception storyline.
In 2023, Susan Lucci, who played Erica Kane, one of the soap genre's most famed characters, was hopeful that Pine Valley would still come to fruition.
"I really thought it had gone away," Lucci said during an interview with Good Morning America. "But of course, with the writers' strike and the actors; strike, kind of everything…it felt like a very long time. But I am told that it is still alive. And certainly, I would be in the best of hands with Kelly and Mark producing."
While it looks like Pine Valley might be off the table for now, it's possible that Lucci brings Erica to life again in Lifetime's All My Children venture.
Soap Central will keep you informed as we learn more details about this possible AMC reboot.
