"I gave it a year and learned a lot. My time with the show was so valuable. But I sort of felt like Damon wasn't grown up, and I felt he needed to go to college and make something of his life."
 

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Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon? It might help make the words I'm about to have to eat taste a little better. Back in the Spring of 2009 when primetime actress Jamie Luner (Savannah, Melrose Place) joined the cast of what was quickly becoming a Prattastrophe known as All My Children, we here at Daytime Confidential balked and balked loudly at the notion that the woman who Chuck Pratt had nicknamed "Turbo" could ever fill the shoes of one Marcy Walker. Somebody tell PETA to head to hell, because as of last week, the Devil was spotted wearing a Chinchilla worthy of Erica Kane (Susan Lucci) herself. READ MORE

Last week Luke and Jamey interviewed All My Children's Walt Willey (pictured above with the ACME cast) about his hosting of ACME Comedy Theatre’s “Unscripted Hollywood Dream Role” on April 9 and now you can see photos from the event. Check them out after the jump! READ MORE

We Love Soaps TV has a batch of new interviews up with the men and women of All My Children. Hosted by Stephen Seidel, who starred in Roger Newcomb's sudsy flick Manhattanites, the interviews feature such Pine Valley dwellers as Bobbie Eakes, Julia Barr, Denise Vasi, Shannon Kane, Natalie Hall, Brittany Allen, Jamie Luner. Vincent Irizarry, Jacob Young, Cornelius Smith Jr., Walt Willey and Adam Mayfield. See the revealing chats after the jump! READ MORE

Take your best Caption This shot at these scenes of Liza (Jamie Luner) "giving birth" on All My Children. More images after the jump. READ MORE

By now, it should be a shock to no one that the near unanimous consensus among most of us who watch All My Children here at Daytime Confidential, the casting of Jamie Luner as Liza Colby Chandler has been a huge bust as of this writing. We know that opinion could change in the future with a knockout performance by Luner, an engaging storyline for the character, or a relationship of any kind that could revitalize Liza and make us see her with new eyes. Unfortunately, none of those three things have happened yet.

The collective criticism of this "new" Liza has centered mostly around the (mis)casting of Ms. Luner, an actress who has her fair share of fans from her days on Melrose Place, Savannah and other shows. On AMC, however, Ms. Luner is delivering the kind of performance that might described as, if I may be permitted to coin a phrase, pseudo-catatonic. Sure, some of the dialogue sounds a little like what Liza might say, but not after three tablespoons of Nyquil.

As a result, at first I was convinced that the problem with Liza was mostly the fault of the actress. That opinion changed with a couple of scenes that aired on Monday's episode that revealed the fundamental reason this character isn't working is because of head writer Chuck Pratt's fundamental misunderstanding about the nature of Liza. READ MORE