It’s been 55 years since All My Youngsters premiered, and the legacy of the ABC cleaning soap lives on. Through the Susan Lucci in Dialog with Andy Cohen: All My Youngsters at 55, author Lorraine Broderick opened up concerning the present’s ending and why it needed to be altered on the final minute.
“We had a completely completely different completely satisfied ending of All My Youngsters, the ultimate script that all of us labored so laborious on,” Broderick revealed to the panelists and viewers in the course of the 92NY Recanati-Kaplan Talks program on January 14. “After which they determined to select up on this brief time period web factor that occurred and we had to return in and alter all the pieces in order that all the pieces was a cliffhanger in order that they’d have one thing.”
All My Youngsters was canceled by ABC in 2011 after 41 years on the air. That very same 12 months, the rights to the cleaning soap have been offered to Prospect Park, which revived AMC for a short-lived internet collection in 2013.
“If we tied all the pieces up and Erica have been fortunately married to Jack, what do you do then? So we needed to change the entire thing,” Broderick continued. “That’s an attention-grabbing inside glimpse into what occurred once they moved the present as much as Connecticut for a short time.”
Broderick was joined by Susan Lucci, Kelly Ripa, Jill Larson, Eden Riegel, Jennifer Bassey, Francesca James, Judy Blye Wilson, and moderator Andy Cohen for a dialog concerning the world of Pine Valley.
Lucci reunited on stage with Riegel, who performed her beloved onscreen daughter, Bianca. “Susan at all times made an effort to method each new individual on the set and welcome them and make them really feel snug and take all of the stress and drama away and put it aside for the scenes,” Riegel gushed about her onscreen mother. “She was so welcoming and so heat and that has simply continued. I imply, she’s a really particular individual in my life, in of our lives.” Lucci sweetly responded, “Again at you, my goodness.”
Riegel careworn that the forged continues to be so shut in spite of everything these years. “We actually are a household,” she stated. Let’s hope that revival involves fruition!