‘All My Children’ Christmas Movie In Works At Lifetime

All My Children is eying a return, this time as a holiday movie. Lifetime is in early development on Christmas In A Pine Valley, an original movie followup to the long-running ABC daytime drama, a spokesperson confirmed to Deadline.

According to sources, conversations are currently underway on the project, which is in a conceptual stage. There is no writer, and it is unclear yet which characters from the original series may be featured in the film.

Like the soap, the potential movie will be set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictional suburb of Philadelphia, which is modeled on the actual Philadelphia suburb of Rosemont.

Lifetime is connected corporately to ABC via the broadcast network’s parent Disney, which co-owns Lifetime parent A+E Networks.

This is not the first effort to revisit All My Children, the Agnes Nixon-created daytime drama which aired for 41 years on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011, originally in a half-hour format before expanding to hourlong episodes in 1977.

Four years ago, ABC explored a primetime sequel series, Pine Valley, about a young journalist with a secret agenda coming to the town of Pine Valley who becomes entangled in a feud between the Kane and Santos families. Popular All My Children almus Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos were attached as executive producers to the project, which did not move forward.

There was also the brief 2013 All My Children revival.

Shortly after the daytime drama‘s cancellation by ABC to make room for talk show The Chew, the rights to it and fellow departed ABC soap One Life To Live were acquired by Prospect Park with the idea to continue the shows as web series. After some major hurdles, new episodes of All My Children started taping in Feb. 2013. By November the show had been canceled again. The rights subsequently reverted to ABC/Disney after a legal battle.

Original movies are a centerpiece of Lifetime’s original programming strategy, with true crime and holiday fare as main areas. Network’s 2023 roster included 12 Christmas movies.

The news of potential All My Children Lifetime movies was first reported by TVLine.