What did Nolan Gould do on his hiatus from playing dim-witted Luke Dunphy on ABC's Emmy-winning sitcom Modern Family? Instead of taking the summer off, the soon-to-be 12-year-old (his birthday is October 28) kept busy with gigs in the upcoming Justin Timberlake film Friends With Benefits and this week's episode of Good Luck Charlie.
On the Disney Channel kid-com airing Sundays at 8:30/7:30c, Gould plays Zander, a guest at the first sleepover of 10-year-old Gabe Duncan (Bradley Steven Perry). He describes his character as "pretty hyper," especially after the Duncan family makes the mistake of feeding him sugar.
"He goes crazy the rest of the night," laughs Gould, who jokes that Zander may not get another invite to Gabe's house, but personally he'd jump at the chance to visit Good Luck Charlie again — or, better yet, have series star Perry come on Modern Family as one of Luke's buddies.
Remember the TGIF sitcoms of yesteryear?Jason Dolley does, and he's not quite sure what happened to them.
"They were so huge, especially when my parents were growing up — everyone watched TV together," he tells TVGuide.com of such classic Friday-night family comedies as The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family. "That whole TGIF concept, for whatever reason, is gone now. But I think we will sort of fill that void."
Dolley stars in the new Disney comedy Good Luck Charlie (premieres Sunday at 8:30/7:30c), a throwback to those old-school family sitcoms that appealed to multiple generations (think Step by Step and Family Matters). The series focuses on the Duncan siblings, P.J. (Dolley), Teddy (Bridgit Mendler) and Gabe (Bradley Steven Perry), who must care for their baby sister Charlotte ("Charlie") when their
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