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Win a Meet & Greet with AMC's Michael E. Knight & tickets to his new play, "The Cost of the Erection"!
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All My Children’s Michael E. Knight’s (Tad) is starring in a new play, The Cost of the Erection, which will have its West Coast Premiere at The Blank Theatre in Hollywood, California. The premise of the play is about wealthy Susu Ziegler who has purchased an exclusive Manhattan raw space apartment overlooking the Hudson. She hopes to have her architect husband design this tricky space, but with their marriage on the rocks, she forces him to compete against a younger, hotshot architect. This sexy, funny tale is told in a heightened theatrical style, compressing and playing with time and space, and ultimately examines what makes a marriage work.
The Cost of the Erection features Knight, along with The Bold and the Beautiful’s Robin Riker (Ex-Beth Logan), James Louis Wagner and Kal Bennett and previews begin this weekend February 4th with the show running through March 18th! For ticket info and seat available make sure to go online at www.TheBlank.com, or by calling (323) 661-9827.
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However, On-Air On-Soaps is exclusively giving one lucky fan and their guest a pair of tickets to the play, and a meet and greet with Michael E. Knight after one of his performances in The Cost of the Erection! Here’s all you have to do … answer all ten of our questions in the “So you think you know Michael Knight trivia contest” below. The first person to submit their answers correctly in the comment field will be notified via email from On-Air On-Soaps and will have 48 hours to respond. If you fail to respond, we will default to the next person who had all the answers correctly. In case, no one has answered all ten questions correctly, we will identify the person who had the most correct and they will be awarded the prize. Please make sure to put 1-10 in the comment field before your answers to the questions. The winner will have the opportunity to see the show and meet Michael between February 15th and March 4. It’s a fantastic fun night if you will be in the southern California area during the run of the play! th.
So get set and get ready! Put on your Michael Knight and Tad Martin thinking caps on and after the jump let the games begin!
SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW MICHAEL KNIGHT TRIVIA CONTEST
1) How many Daytime Emmys has Michael Knight won?
2) What was the full name of Tad’s doppelganger when Michael returned to AMC in 1992?
3) What is the name of Tad’s child with Brooke?
4) Who did Edna Thornton pay Tad the Cad to date because she was overweight and unhappy?
5) What are the two things in common between Michael E. Knight and David Hasselhoff?
6) In 2011, what sitcom did Michael appear in?
7) What famous theatre in New York City did Michael get his acting training at?
8. In an interview with On-Air On-Soaps at the end of his run at AMC, who was Michael talking about when he said, “She had this kind of fierce loyalty to her children. I remember doing scenes with her where Tad was weighing being a Martin, and that woman would be there with tears in her eyes. When I found out she was gone there was a part of me that said, “Maybe it is an end of an era. Maybe it is time for me to walk away from this?”
9) What was the correct full birth name of Tad Martin?
10) Was Tad ever an employee of Opal’s Glamorama? Yes, or No?
After you have submitted your answers make sure to view the very special preview of The Cost of the Erection by watching the video below!
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‘All My Children’ Movie Writers for Lifetime Revealed: Ron Carlivati, Jamey Giddens and Leo Richardson
This week began and as reported with a spotlight article on Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos and how their production entity, Milojo, has been teeing up the All My Children reboot with Lifetime.
The L.A. Times featured the married couple, co-hosts of Live with Kelly and Mark, and former All My Children cast members (where they met and fell in love) about their plans to bring two All My Children movies to Lifetime and how they are working with the Agnes Nixon estate to make it come to fruition,
On Wednesday, it was revealed by Daytime Confidential, that All My Children reboot producer, Andrew Stearn handpicked none other than Ron Carlivati (ex-head writer, One Life to Live, General Hospital and Days of our Lives) and Jamey Giddens (who is the new co-head writer of The Young and the Restless, following his tenures on the writing teams of Beyond the Gates and Days of Our Lives), as the two scribes who will bring the first of two of Kelly and Mark’s All My Children movies to the page.
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RON CARLIVATI AND JAMEY GIDDENS CONFIRM THEIR BOARDING THE ALL MY CHILDREN MOVIE PROJECT
The second installment is said to be written by primetime writer Leo Richardson whose credits include: Star, Katy Keene and more recently the Penn Badgley (ex-Phillip Chancellor IV, The Young and the Restless) starring series, You.
Richardson also wrote for three years on the U.K.’s long-running soap, EastEnders. All My Children revival fans will recall Richardson’s name was attached as the writer for the first incarnation of the All My Children movies, entitled, Pine Valley.
Ron Carlivati took to X and confirmed he is indeed boarding the All My Children movie project. Carlivati shared, “So excited to share this news! Thanks to Andrew Stearn, Kelly Ripa, Mark Consuelos, Albert Bianchini and the Agnes Nixon estate for entrusting Jamey Giddens and me with the first of two planned All My Children movies for Lifetime! Stay tuned!”
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Jamey Giddens confirmed DC’s announcement by taking to his account on X and expressing, “I’ve been booked and busy in 2026. Thanks to Andrew Stearn, the Agnes Nixon estate, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos for entrusting Ron Carlivati, and me with the first of two planned All My Children movies for Lifetime!”
Some fans seemed to question how Giddens could be writing for the first All My Children movie at Lifetime, when he is the new co-head writer at The Young and the Restless with Dan O’Connor. Jamey answered that head on via X and explained, “We turned in our All My Children script months ago. My sole focus as of this past Monday, is Genoa City, Wisconsin! #YR”
ERICA KANE, MARIA SANTOS AND HAYLEY AND MATEO SANTOS TO APPEAR IN THE ALL MY CHILDREN MOVIE REVIVAL?
In the planned stories, Susan Lucci’s Erica Kane and Eva LaRue’s Maria Santos will be two characters whose lives we will get to see for the first time since the series was canceled by ABC back in 2011 after 41 years on the air. As well, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos confirmed they will make brief appearances on-screen; one could assume as Hayley and Mateo Santos.
“It’d be wonderful to give the fans something that they’ve been yearning for so many years,” shared Mark Consuelos to the LA Times. “All My Children gave me my family. I met my wife there. It gave me my start in the business. It gave us so much. It would be a dream to be able to give back.”
So, what do you think of Ron Carlivati and Jamey Giddens getting nod to write the All My Children movie #1 script and Leo Richardson #2? Weigh-in via the comment section below.
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‘All My Children’ Revival Updates: Lifetime EVP Speaks on Why Proposed Movies are Great Fit, Mark Consuelos Wants To ‘Give Back’ to Fans
The All My Children revival via movies at Lifetime is still in the works from former series stars and marrieds, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, through their production company, Milojo.
The co-hosts of Live with Kelly and Mark were featured this week in a Los Angeles Times article which detailed their efforts to bring some of the citizens of Pine Valley back to your screens.
As previously reported, and reaffirmed by the L.A. Times, the All My Children movies will be set in the present day and focus on what beloved characters such as Erica Kane (Susan Lucci) and Maria Santos Gray (Eva LaRue) are doing now. In addition, Kelly Ripa confirmed that she and Mark Consuelos will also appear on screen briefly most likely appearing in their signature soap roles as Hayley and Mateo Santos.
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ALL MY CHILDREN MOVIES BRING NOSTALGIA THAT CAN BE MADE TO FEEL NEW AGAIN
Elaine Frontain Bryant, executive vice president and head of programming for A&E, Lifetime, and Lifetime Movie Network said of the All My Children reboot, “Lifetime is always interested in shows that kind of tap into a powerful nostalgia that can be made fresh for today’s audience. There’s a whole generation of women that have missed these stories and these characters.”
As for working with Kelly and Mark on the Lifetime movie versions of the soap, “They’re exactly the kind of partners you want at a brand,” expressed Bryant. “They’re trusted voices because every day they’re talking to their audience, which, a lot of times, is our audience. They bring a real credibility and have an authentic point of view. You meet Kelly and Mark and kind of what you see is what you get, and I think they bring that same authenticity to their development standards.”
Albert Bianchini, executive producer for Milojo, says he knows All My Children is so wildly popular with the fans of daytime. That was punctuated when seeing it in person, and how the energy was off the charts back in January of 2025 when Kelly participated along with Susan Lucci, former head writer, Lorraine Broderick and casting director, Judy Blye Wilson in a conversation with Andy Cohen at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.
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“I’ve never seen a crowd like that in my life. People were lined up around the block, recalled the Bianchini. “Everyone wanted to know, ‘When is (All My Children) coming back? We want more.’ We got to see that in real life and Kelly got to feel it in real life, and it made so much sense. I just know that the minute it gets out in the world, people will want more and more and more. There’s just a love there.”
Kelly Ripa added that they are, “working closely with Bob and Sarah Nixon, who are also serving as producers.” She recalled, “She (Agnes Nixon) was so far ahead of her time. She covered topics that weren’t being covered. It was extraordinary the audiences that the show drew, and she served them real stories that were affecting Americans across the country but weren’t necessarily being represented anywhere.”
“It’d be wonderful to give the fans something that they’ve been yearning for so many years,” shared Mark Consuelos. “All My Children gave me my family. I met my wife there. It gave me my start in the business. It gave us so much. It would be a dream to be able to give back.”
THE CANCELLATION AND STOPS AND STARTS OF ALL MY CHILDREN REBOOTS
All My Children aired on ABC from 1970 to 2011. It got a second chance at life when Prospect Park resurrected the show and brought it to The OnLine Network and Hulu for one season in 2013.
Recently, the series made a return through the estate of Agnes Nixon and is streaming internationally on BEONDTV and through their partnership with PlutoTV Canada with episodes starting in 1995. Fans hope original episodes will some day soon be available in the U.S. as well, but that could prove more difficult since ABC owns the rights to the episodes stateside.
Now 13 years later, while there is no word yet on a definitive production start date to the two movies at Lifetime, all the people involved seemed determined to make it come to life.
So, what do you think of the executive vice-president of Lifetime and LMN being enthusiastic about Kelly and Mark’s All My Children movie revivals? Are you wanting to see this come to fruition? Kelly and Mark seem to have made this a very high priority. Do you hope that by 2027 we might be able to get this to the finish the line and into production? Weigh-in via the comment section.
Starting on May 1, All My Children fans in Canada will be able to see classic episodes of the beloved former ABC soap opera when they stream on Pluto TV Canada.
Pluto TV picked-up the All My Children Channel that the Nixon family has created in partnership with BEONDTV +. The show which aired for 41 years on ABC and ended on the network in 2011, had so many memorable storylines and characters; the least of which is the enduring run of Erica Kane played by soap icon, Susan Lucci.
As previously reported, starting with episodes from the year 1995, which was the 25th anniversary of the soap. Pluto TV Canada viewers will be able to catch 8 episodes on repeat per day. With the success of the venture, the Nixons are hopeful that they will bring viewers many more years of the show to come.
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Sarah Nixon, producer, shared with Michael Fairman TV exclusively, “We are thrilled that Pluto TV has launched All My Children in Canada! Let’s hope the engagement from our incredibly loyal fans across the border will encourage ABC to bring it to the U.S.! We share what Aggie (Agnes Nixon) always felt, that it is the enthusiasm and love from the fans that has kept this legacy beloved and relevant – to this day!”
In addition, 0ne week ago, during Susan Lucci’s visit to Los Angeles promoting her book La Lucci, she was joined by her former Pine Valley castmates, Rebecca Budig (ex-Greenlee, AMC, now Taylor, B&B) and Eva LaRue (ex-Maria, AMC) and the trio posed for a pic. At that time, LaRue shared via Instagram, “NEW All My Children channel streaming classic episodes 24/7 now on Pluto TV Canada! Fingers crossed to watch soon on Pluto US.”
That was also confirmed this week by TV Watercooler’s Jeevan Brar who took to X and expressed, “The All My Children channel begins streaming this Friday, May 1 on Pluto TV Canada.
So, Canadian viewers, excited about Pluto TV’s All My Children channel? United States fans, hopeful from Sarah’s message that perhaps soon, we can see the beloved soap once again as well? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.
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1) 3
2) Ted Orsini
3) James “Jamie” Edward Martin
4) Dottie Thorton
5) They both married Cat Hickland
6) Hot In Cleveland
7) Circle In The Square
8. Mary Fickett
9) Thaddeus Gardner
10) Yes
Oh and #9, middle name is James.
1. 3
2. Ted Orsini
3. Jaime
4. Dottie Thornton
5. Catherine Hickland
6. Hot in Cleveland
7. Circle in the Square Theater
8. Mary Fickett
9. Thaddeus James Gardner
10. Yes
1. 2
2. Ted Orsini
3. Jamie – James Thaddeus Martin
4. Dottie Thornton
5. the name Michael Knight, David Hasselhoff’s character on Knight Rider. And they were both married to Catherine Hickland
6. Hot in Cleveland
7. Circle in the Square Theatre in NY
8. Mary Fickett – Ruth Martin
9. Thaddeus James Garnder
10. Yes
Allow me to fix the spelling of number 9. Thaddeus James Gardner.
1) 3
2) Ted Orsini
3) James “Jamie” Martin
4) Dottie Thornton
5) Both married to Cat Hickland, the name Michael Knight was David’s character’s name on Knight Rider
6)
Hot In Cleveland
7)
Circle In The Square
8. Mary Fickett, Ruth
9)
Thaddeus James Gardner
10)
Yes, he shampooed hair.
I love tad martin ,but I dont remember half of these questions , and I have watched all my children since day 1.I guess this is a slow soap news day.
Go, Michael! 😀
1. Michael has won 3.
2. Ted Orsini
3. James “Jamie” Edward Martin
4. Dottie Thornton
5. Catherine Hickland; also Michael Knight was Hasselhoff’s character’s name in “Knight Rider”.
6. “Hot In Cleveland”
7. Circle in the Square
8. Mary Fickett, aka Ruth Martin
9. Thaddeus James Gardner
10. Yes, he worked at The Glamorama.
LOVE IT, LOVE YOU. Thanks for doing this!!!
1) Michael Knight has won 2 Daytime Emmy’s for Outstanding Younger Leading Man in a Drama Series (1986, 1987). And in 2001 he won another for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
2) Wine Mogul Ted Orsini.
3) Jamie
4) Dottie Thornton
5) Both were married to Catherine Hickland and the name of David Hasselhoff’s “Night Rider” character was Michael Knight
6) In 2011, Michael appeared on “Hot In Cleveland”.
7) Michael got his acting training at Circle in the Square Theater and graduated in 1982.
8. Mary Fickett who played Ruth Parker Brent on All My Children was whom Michael was talking about when he said, “She had this kind of fierce loyalty to her children. I remember doing scenes with her where Tad was weighing being a Martin, and that woman would be there with tears in her eyes. Ms. Fickett was an original cast member of All My Children.
9) Thaddeus James Gardner was his “Birth Name”.
10) Yes, Tad worked as an employee of Opal’s Glamorama.
I think since so few of us entered, we should all be winners!
Did anyone win? We all had the same answers. I was first, but never got an email. Did we miss something?
I think we did miss something, but Im not sure what,I didnt win anything because I only could answer a few of the questions ,well more then a few ,I could have looked all the questions up and got all 10,but I didnt want to cheat ,maybe we all won ,depending on where we all live ,we can rent a bus ,and go across country singing songs and cursing out abc for canceling our soaps .I miss all my children and michael e knight to.
Hey everyone!
I will be sending out the winner an email this Wednesday for the contest to see Michael Knight is in his new play and the Meet & Greet.
Congrats to whomever won! I’m curious what the answers were…
Hey Bren:
We have contacted the winner. They have 48 hours to respond till tomorrow, Friday. If they do not respond in time, the next person who had the answers all correct will receive email notification.
As soon as the winner is confirmed, I will post the correct answers.
Thx
Michael
who is the winner? did I sleep through that announcement to?I was wondering if I should pack a bag or not just in case it was me .I know the person who won had 48 hours to get in touch,that was 7 days ago,Im just curious.