Is ‘All My Children’ Coming Back To ABC? Daytime Soap Could Return With New Spin

Daytime soap operas may have been a major casualty of changes in viewership a few years back, but renewed interest in the dramatic stories told on the sudsers could see one of them resurrected from the grave much like some of their characters.

“All My Children” which ran on ABC from 1970-2011 and had a brief online revival through Prospect Park, is being eyed for a primetime revival, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The new series being developed, titled “Pine Valley,” is being executive produced by former stars Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, as well as Robert Nixon, the son of original series creator Agnes Nixon.

It’s unclear if Ripa or Consuelos will be involved as cast members and revive their roles of Haley Vaughan and Mateo Santos on the new series if it is developed. According to the report, the new series is set to center on a young journalist who goes to the fictional town of Pine Valley (where “All My Children” took place) to expose the dark history, but quickly gets caught up in the major feud that continues to brew between the Kane and Santos families.

No casting news has been announced yet regarding reprisals from some of the series’ most well-known actors, such as Susan Lucci, who portrayed Erica Kane on the series.

If the show gets a primetime twist to continue the drama, it would be the second ABC soap to get the treatment, following “General Hospital,” which had a brief primetime spin-off “General Hospital: Night Shift” in 2007 and 2008. It would also mark a second soap being on ABC again, after the initial “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” cancellations in 2011. “General Hospital” currently remains as the only soap on the network. NBC also retains one sole daytime drama, “Days of Our Lives,” while CBS still airs new episodes of two dramas, “The Young and the Restless” and “The Bold and the Beautiful.”