After forty years of dramatic storytelling, the daytime ABC soap opera All My Children has officially announced it’s final episode will air on Friday, September 23.

ABC Cancels Soaps ‘All My Children’ & ‘One Life to Live’

But don’t worry! The executives have promised plenty of alums to help ease the pain: Josh Duhamel (Leo Du Pres), Eva La Rue (Maria Santos), Thorsten Kaye (Zach Slater), Carol Burnett (Verla Grubbs), Kate Collins (Janet Green), Jennifer Bassey (Marion Chandler), Melissa Claire Egan (Annie Chandler), and Leven Rambin (Lily Montgomery) will all return to say goodbye.

The following Monday, ABC’s new one-hour lifestyle series The Chew will debut. The show promises to bring together “a diverse panel of co-hosts that includes restaurateurs and Iron Chef stars Mario Batali and Michael Symon, entertaining expert Clinton Kelly, Top Chef alum Carla Hall and health & wellness enthusiast Daphne Oz.”

Susan Lucci & Kelly Ripa React To All My Children Cancellation

Can we just skip the stupid talk show and get some daytime Grey’s Anatomy re-runs?