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Pine Valley Rises From the Ashes! All My Children Is Officially Getting A Movie

All My Children’s Lifetime movie has its writers, soap veterans Ron Carlivati and Jamey Giddens, bringing Pine Valley back to life.

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6 days ago

August 6, 2026

Amber Sinclair

ALL MY CHILDREN IS BACK, AND IT’S ABOUT TIME

Pine Valley is officially rising from the ashes. The All My Children Lifetime movie has landed its dream writing team, and daytime is buzzing.

All My Children’s Movie Is Really Happening

After years of will-it-or-won’t-it, All My Children is finally getting its Lifetime movie moment. Ron Carlivati and Jamey Giddens have been hired to co-write the first of two planned films. Both writers confirmed the news themselves on Instagram, following an initial report from Daytime Confidential.

This whole thing is a passion project for Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos. The two fell in love playing Hayley and Mateo Santos back in AMC’s original run, and they are now producing the movies through their company, Milojo Productions. Talk about a full-circle Pine Valley romance.

Ron Carlivati is a Daytime Emmy winner with head-writing credits on One Life to Live, General Hospital, and Days of Our Lives, plus recent work on Beyond the Gates. Jamey Giddens just stepped into his new gig as co-head writer of The Young and the Restless, on top of previous work for Beyond the Gates and Daytime Confidential.

Between the two of them, Pine Valley and the whole All My Children universe are landing in seriously capable hands.ine Valley and the whole All My Children universe are landing in seriously capable hands.

What’s Actually Coming Back

All My Children ran on ABC from 1970 to 2011, with a short-lived digital revival in 2013. The show was created by the legendary Agnes Nixon, whose estate is partnering on this comeback.

Ripa and Consuelos have revealed the movie will be set in the present. It will catch fans up on what icons like Erica Kaneand Maria Santos Grey have been up to all this time, and the couple themselves will pop up in brief appearances.

Daytime’s reaction has been pure joy. Chrishell Stause, who played Amanda on AMC, called it a full circle moment.

Melissa Claire Egan, who plays Chelsea Lawson on Y&R and got her start on AMC as Annie, celebrated right alongside her. Karla Mosley, who plays Dani Dupree on Beyond the Gates, piled on the excitement too, crowning Giddens the reigning king of daytime.

What are you hoping to see in the All My Children revival? Head to the comments and spill your predictions!

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Amber Sinclair
Amber Sinclair — Editor-in-Chief
Amber Sinclair is the Editor-in-Chief of Soap Opera Magazine, appointed in February 2026. She oversees editorial strategy, content development, and daily coverage across all major daytime dramas including The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, and Beyond the Gates.
With more than a decade in the soap opera industry and over 25,000 published articles to her name, Amber has pretty much lived and breathed daytime television for as long as she can remember. Before taking the helm at Soap Opera Magazine, she served as Managing Editor at SoapHub, Editor-in-Chief at Daily Drama, and Senior Editor at Soap Shows. She's hosted podcasts, gone toe-to-toe in interviews with daytime's biggest stars, and covered more red carpets than she can count.
When she's not crafting headlines that drip with drama or deep-diving into the latest storyline twists, Amber can be found in Ontario, Canada — probably rewatching a classic episode and taking notes. Want to share your wildest soap theories? She actually reads every email at [email protected] — and yes, she will reply if your take is unhinged enough.
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