Production on the Long Lived Soap Has Come to a Halt - Will "All My Children" Be Next? Fans of "One Life to Live" cringed in their barkaloungers when, back in Januar of 2012, ABC pulled the plug on its 43 year old soap. Less than 16 months later, in April of this year, producers heeded the devotees calls and mounted the show as a webseries on Hulu and iTunes.