For Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, the quest to revive 'All My Children' is personal

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Set us as preferred Since starting Milojo, the production company she runs with her husband, Mark Consuelos, Kelly Ripa has learned one very big lesson: “Everything is possible and yet nothing is possible,” she says.“All at the same time.

It’s kind of amazing.”The couple, who famously met in 1995 on the set of “All My Children” while playing Hayley Vaughan and Mateo Santos and now co-host syndicated morning talk show “Live With Kelly and Mark,” have become very adept at selling their ideas.The hard part, Consuelos says, is getting a show “over the finish line.”“It’s a numbers game,” he says.

“And we’ve learned that.It just can’t be one or two things you’re working on.

It’s gotta be four or five things because usually two or three of those, especially in the scripted area, are not gonna make it over the finish line.You’ve got to have a lot of irons in the fire.”To that end, Milojo consistently has a wide variety of projects in motion.

“We’re just mining for gold all the time,” Ripa says.“The way the industry is constantly shifting, it’s about harnessing something at the right time.

You don’t want to be ahead of the curve.You don’t want to be behind the curve.

You wanna be right in that sweet spot, and that’s what I find to be the most challenging.”Consuelos credits his wife with coming up with the majority of the ideas.“When I am reading a book or a magazine, I intuitively always figure out in my mind’s eye a way that I think we could bring this to the small screen, the big screen, a theater, what have you,” Ripa says.

“I’m always looking at a way to turn something I find compelling into something I think people may find compelling.”Ripa‘s podcast “Let’s Talk Off Camera,” which she began in 2023, is now in its fourth season.Hulu series “Squ...