Brittany Underwood
Rating The Young Uns: Why Soaps Could Use More Actors Like Blake Berris And Less Hair Models
Submitted by Jamey Giddens on November 26, 2008 - 2:13pm.
Okay you knew it was coming. Now that the Idiots In Charge of The-Soap-Opera-Formerly-Known-as-Days-of-Our-Lives have let the phenomenal Blake Berris go, I decided to start out doing a Wishful Casting about where Berris should end up, but it turned into more of an analysis of which soaps are managing to set things up for their next generation the right way, and which ones are getting it wrong, dead wrong.
Much of the daytime industry is experiencing a serious drought in terms of talented, young stars who can actually, you know, act. Save for The Young and the Restless, One Life to Live and General Hospital, the under 30 set at most soaps is pretty much comprised of rejects from the Pamela Anderson School of Acting and Pantomime. I'll start with the soaps in most need of help and work my way up. Continue Reading...
- All My Children
- As the World Turns
- Bold and Beautiful
- Days of Our Lives
- General Hospital
- Guiding Light
- One Life to Live
- Young and Restless
- Adrienne Frantz
- Agim Kaba
- Antonio Sabato Jr.
- Billy Magnussen
- Billy Miller
- Blake Berris
- Bonnie Dennison
- Bradford Anderson
- Brandon Barash
- Brandon Beemer
- Brandon Buddy
- Brianne Moncrief
- Brittany Underwood
- Caitlin Van Zandt
- Claire Coffee
- Cornelius Smith, JR
- Daniel Goddard
- Daniel Kennedy
- E.J. Bonilla
- Eden Riegel
- Emily O'Brien
- Grant Aleksander
- Greg Rikaart
- Greg Vaughan
- Jackie Zeman
- Jake Silbermann
- Jason Thompson
- John Brotherton
- John Driscoll
- John-Paul Lavoisier
- Kelley Menighan Hensley
- Kelly Ripa
- Kimberly McCullough
- Kirsten Storms
- Kristen Alderson
- Lawrence St. Victor
- Lesli Kay
- Mandy Bruno
- Marcy Rylan
- Maria Arena Bell
- Mario Lopez
- Marnie Schulenburg
- Melissa Archer
- Melissa Fumero
- Michael Graziadei
- Ron Carlivati
- Sri Rao
- Tamara Braun
- Texas Battle
- Tika Sumpter
- Van Hansis
The Innocence of Youth, Lost
Submitted by Luke Kerr on October 6, 2008 - 11:15am.

The other day I was thinking, quite a shock I know, about the fact that very few of today's soaps have true "teen" (pre college) storylines anymore.
Gone are the days of teen storylines such as General Hospital's Lucky, Elizabeth, Nikolas and Emily, Days of Our Lives' Belle, Shawn, Chloe and Brady and The Young and the Restless' Glo by Jabot Kids. The classic "four teen" formula that dominated much of soaps through the late 90's, and made stars out of Jonathan Jackson, Rebecca Herbst, Tyler Christopher, Kirsten Storms, Jason Cook, Nadia Bjorlin, Kyle Lowder, Farah Fath and countless others before them, seems to have been replaced by the "duo."
As the World Turns has Parker and Liberty. General Hospital doesn't have any true teens. The Young and the Restless has Noah and Eden. The Bold and the Beautiful has Stephanie and Marcus (not true teens). All My Children's last attempt at recreating the forumla bombed and the show is now rebuilding with Colby and Petey. Guiding Light has Daisy and Rafe. Days of Our Lives, which practically defined the formula with Sami, Austin, Carrie and Lucas, has no true teen characters except maybe Melanie. A character not even Blake Berris' Nick Fallon (a post college character) can save.
At the moment only One Life to Live seems to be following the "four teen" formula with Starr (Kristen Alderson), Cole (Brandon Buddy), Langston (Brittany Underwood) and Markko Rivera (Jason Tam). Now granted, at least one of these four actors isn't actually a teen, but the characters are all still in highschool. In honor of these four characters I thought I'd see which couple fans enjoy most.
Which couple is your favorite?
Welcome to the Cramer Family
Submitted by Luke Kerr on September 17, 2008 - 1:15pm.
You know, we knew that Clint had a surprise in store for Dorian and Langston (Brittany Underwood) and even though A Martinez's run may only be a short stint I thought I'd see what everyone thinks of Langston becoming a "Cramer Woman?"
Personally, I love that this storyline brings out the softer side in Dorian (Robin Strasser). Too often we just see her as the larger than life, uber bitch, diva she is and we forget that she does have a softer side (anyone who watched the 40th Anniversary episode scenes between Dorian and Mel knows that).
What do you think of this storyline? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
OLTL: A Martinez out!
Submitted by Jillian Bowe on September 16, 2008 - 1:59pm.
Fans of Langston Wilde Cramer should not fret on her departing family members, she has a cousin that will head to Llanview. Lola Montez, Ray's daughter will be played by Camila Banus and will make her first screen appearance Oct. 3.
A Martinez on his return to One Life to Live
Submitted by Luke Kerr on September 8, 2008 - 7:44pm.
A Martinez is returning to daytime as One Life to Live's Ray, the uncle of Dorian's ward Langston (Brittany Underwood). In a great interview with Michael Fairman, Martinez reveals that his return to daytime is for a short, five week run. He also hints that there are going to be some great scenes between his character and Robin Strasser's Dorian Lord. Check out the interview HERE.
Would you like to see A Martinez's return last longer than 5 weeks?
A "Likely Story" For Strasser, Tam and Underwood
Submitted by Luke Kerr on June 26, 2008 - 10:54am.
If you are a One Life to Live fan and live in the greater New York City area and were looking for something to do today (Thursday June 26th) you may want to make plans to drop by the Time Warner Center branch of Borders at 6pm for a special book reading and signing of "Likely Story", a young adult novel by Chris Van Etten. I've posted the description of the book below but the reason One Life to Live fans will be interested is because Robin Strasser, Jason Tam, and Brittany Underwood will be the voices of the book's three main characters.
"Likely Story" is the first part of a trilogy of books about Mallory Hayden, the daughter of a famous and famously difficult soap star. A conflict with her mother leads Mallory to believe she can out-do anything that Daytime currently has to offer, and through a series of (wacky) events, she's given the chance to write her own network soap opera. What ought to be a cause for celebration quickly becomes a greater-than-normal personal challenge, as Mallory's loyalties to her boyfriend, as well as her best friend, are tested.
A Q&A and signing will follow the reading.
Williamson, Bonner, and Underwood @ Broadway Cares
Submitted by Daytime Confidential on March 10, 2008 - 12:52pm.


Who Looks the Best?
ABC's "A Love Affair" CD
Submitted by Luke Kerr on February 1, 2008 - 2:37pm.
Here is the line up of stars.
David Canary - Always On My Mind
Bobbie Eakes - Because You Loved Me
Susan Lucci - Falling In Love
Kristen Alderson - From This Moment On
Kathy Brier - Never My Love
Jason Tam and Brittany Underwood - Quando, Quando, Quando
Tika Sumpter - I’ll Be There
Kassie De Paiva - Let It Be Me
Bradford Anderson - My Funny Valentine
Sonya Eddy - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
Tony Geary - Everytime We Say Goodbye
Rick Hearst - In My Life
- Login or register to post comments
- Email this Story











Recent comments
8 min 28 sec ago
10 min 38 sec ago
28 min 28 sec ago
30 min 49 sec ago
32 min 22 sec ago
37 min 55 sec ago
52 min 42 sec ago
1 hour 15 min ago
1 hour 22 min ago
1 hour 24 min ago