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Good Luck Charlie is an American sitcom that aired on Disney Channel from April 4, 2010, to February 16, 2014. The series' creators, Phil Baker and Drew Vaupen, wanted to create a program that would appeal to entire families, not just children.
Good Luck Charlie: Created by Phil Baker, Drew Vaupen. With Bridgit Mendler, Leigh-Allyn Baker, Bradley Steven Perry, Mia Talerico. The Duncan family are adjusting to the surprise birth of their fourth child, Charlie.
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Good Luck Charlie is an American sitcom that originally aired on Disney Channel from April 4, 2010 to February 16, 2014. [1] The series revolves around Teddy Duncan (Bridgit Mendler), a teenage girl who makes video diaries for her little sister Charlie (Mia Talerico) about her family and life as a teenager. The video diaries are made to help ...
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- Characters
- Development and Production
- Casting
- Controversy
- Reception
- Indian Adaptation
- Trivia
The series focuses on the Duncan family, who are still adjusting to the birth of their fourth child, Charlotte "Charlie" Duncan (Mia Talerico). When parents Amy (Leigh-Allyn Baker), a nurse, and Bob (Eric Allan Kramer), an exterminator, return to work, they ask their three older children—PJ (Jason Dolley), Teddy (Bridgit Mendler), and Gabe (Bradley...
Main characters
1. Theodora "Teddy" R Duncan (Bridgit Mendler) is the protagonist of the series and Charlie's older and only sister. She is a caring, involved, positive, and intelligent teenage girl and the second oldest child, after PJ and before Gabe. Although she might get annoyed or frustrated with her siblings, she is very loving and gives each one of her siblings advice whenever they need it. She even gives her mother (Amy) and father (Bob) advice sometimes. Feeling that she will not be around as much...
Recurring characters
1. Ivy Wentz(Raven Goodwin) is Teddy's best friend. She is seen spending most of her time with Teddy at the Duncan's house and often accompanies her on her dutiful excursions. Ivy is energetic, witty, and humorous and has proven to be quite intuitive, although she does not receive the best grades in school. She is passionate, if not obsessed, about clothes, money, popularity, boys, and texting, but on numerous occasions, has proven to be a loyal and comforting friend. Ivy briefly dated Emmett...
The Good Luck Charlie pilot, entitled "Study Date", was shot in February 2010, at Sunset Bronson Studios (where Hannah Montana was taped) and the series was picked up later that year. The show's production occurs at Sunset Bronson Studios in Los Angeles even though the show is set in Denver, Colorado. Starting with the 2nd season, the series is tap...
As Good Luck Charlie is low concept and character-driven, "The actors not only had to carry the show, they also had to have 'pitch-perfect' chemistry with each other to make the family dynamic believable." Bonnet says Disney Channel executives "just fell in love with" Bridgit Mendler, who stars as the series' protagonist, fifteen-year-old Teddy Dun...
2 lesbian moms
On January 27, 2014, Disney channel announced that it would introduce 2 lesbian moms in the 96 episode "Down a Tree". This stirred up controversy among groups "One Million Moms" and others boycotted Disney Channel. But some people, including Miley Cyrus among others, praised the episode saying that it needed to be included. This is the first time Disney has included gay people in a family-friendly Disney Channel show.
Critical reception
The series' premiere earned positive reviews. It also currently holds an 8.6 rating on TV.com and 6.9 rating from 2,957 users on IMDb.com. Robert Lloyd of The Los Angeles Times described it as a "professional sitcom from sitcom professionals" with efficient jokes and typical sitcom characters, and situations which are "willfully arranged". However, Lloyd praised the series for offering a "contextually novel picture of a teenage girl taking care of her baby sister with a persuasive nonchalance...
Viewership
The series premiered to 4.6 million viewers, making it the highest-rated series premiere for a Disney Channel Original Series since The Suite Life on Deck in 2008, and the week's highest-rated cable program. Maclean's reported that overall, the first season "has been doing about as well as Disney’s more successful shows – The Suite Life and so on".On June 24, 2012, the episode "Special Delivery" became the most-watched episode ever of Good Luck Charlie, earning 7.48 million viewers, surpassin...
An Indian adaptation of the show, titled Best of Luck Nikki, premiered on Disney Channel India on April 3, 2011. Sheena Bajaj plays Dolly Singh, a character similar to that of Teddy R. Duncan.
This is the first Disney Channel series to feature an LGBT instance. The episode "Down a Tree" featured Charlie's friend Taylor being raised by a lesbian couple.
The first season of Good Luck Charlie premiered on April 4, 2010, with the episode "Study Date", and concluded on January 30, 2011 with the episode "Driving Mrs. Dabney". This season was taped at Sunset Bronson Studios (where Hannah Montana was taped).
It was confirmed that the current season of Good Luck Charlie (season 4) would be the final season of the series, with the series finale coming out on February 16, 2014. The show is available to stream on Disney Plus!
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Good Luck Charlie is a Disney Channel original series that premiered in 2010. The series concluded on February 16, 2014 with a one-hour television series finale event, which is also the 97th episode of the series overall.
