Soap opera All My Children is making a comeback at Lifetime as two movies, with one of them being holiday-themed.
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It seems that one can not simply leave Pine Valley all that easily. TV Line is reporting – and later confirmed by Lifetime – that two All My Children movies are in the works. One of them will be holiday-themed, but no word as of yet as to when the films will make their debuts.
There is no word as of yet as to which, if any, original castmembers will be making a return.
All My Children ran on ABC from 1970 to 2011. It was then briefly revived at Hulu by another company called Prospect Park, but that version fell apart not very long into the revival’s run.
ABC has been trying to find ways to revive the franchise for a while now. In 2020 there was talk of series alums Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos trying to launch a primetime version called Pine Valley, but nothing ever seems to have ever happened with that project. In 2023, the character of Jackson Montgomery (Walt Willey) featured in multiple episodes of General Hospital, the first time the characters had been revisited since the Hulu revival.
The Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC, is a part owner of A&E Networks which owns Lifetime, making the deal easy to work out.
What happens beyond these two films will more than likely be determined when the viewership for the two films are analyzed. But things seem to be improving for the format recently with CBS preparing to launch the first new soap in 25 years called The Gates. The last new series was Passions on NBC.
