Well at least the Disney Channel has gotten some eyeballs on its family-friendly show “Good Luck Charlie.” The numbers are fantastic and the show’s star Bridgit Mendler is set to become another Disney darling along the lines of Miley, Selena and Demi.

“It’s so flattering to have been given that title,” Bridgit told me when I chatted with her on set. “I mean, I would like to be my own person within that and I think through the process of going through Disney, you become your own person and you find our own niche and that’s something that they are really good at.”

Like her predecessors, she is a singer but has no plans to put an album out just yet.

“I’ve been working on it a little bit — putting together some of the songs that I have written, but I want to take it slow and make sure that its something thats really me.”

The star of Good Luck Charlie isn’t even 2 years old yet and she’s got plenty of fans. Her biggest admirers are her co-stars on the new Disney family sitcom, which airs its latest new episode this Saturday.

Good Luck Charlie tells the story of the Duncan family adjusting to a new arrival baby Charlotte, who is also known as Charlie. Played by Mia Talerico, Charlie is left in the care of her three older siblings when both parents decide to go back to work.

Mom Amy Duncan is a nurse and dad Bob Duncan is an exterminator who drives a truck with a giant bug sculpture on top. Bridgit Mendler plays the role of the big sister Teddy, who is making a video diary for Charlie. Kids may remember Mendler as Juliet from Disney’s hit series Wizards of Waverly Place.

Going ga ga for the baby

On a recent visit to the set of this funny new show, the kids had much praise for their diaper-wearing co-star. Mendler, who is as sweet in person as she is on TV, expressed how much fun it is to have a baby co-star.

“We did not expect Mia to be such a well-behaved baby,” she said. “She’s been just incredible. She’s really social with everybody. She wants to have a good time and play with all of us.”

According to the cast, Mia is a very capable actress.

“She just has this really innate talent,” said Jason Dolley, who plays P.J., the oldest sibling. Dolley was last seen as Newt on Corey in the House. “She’s a great television baby; an amazing, adorable, cute baby.”

Bradley Steven Perry, who plays brother Gabe, a 5th grader, is surprised by her acting skills.

“We all say she reads the script,” Perry said. “She does stuff that’s in the script that you don’t think she’ll do.”

The cast of kids say they enjoy the time they get to spend with each other both on and off the show.

“I think I’ve been really lucky to have such a great group of people on the show,” Mendler said. “We all have bonded and we feel like a family. That makes work that much more fun.”

The group tends to hang out with each other off the set, too. Says Dolley, some of their favorite activities together include bowling and go-kart racing.

“We’ve really sort of become our own family on the set,” Dolley said. He also made a prediction. “I think people will tune into this and I think families will all really enjoy watching this. I think adults will laugh, kids will laugh. There’s something in it for everyone.”

In the upcoming episode “Dance Off,” Teddy (Mendler) and Ivy (Raven Goodwin) go on a double date to the school dance with Spencer (Harper) and Emmett (Micah Williams). However, Spencer and Emmett have a dance-off that turns into a bonding moment and Teddy is ignored.

Meanwhile, Gabe (Bradley Steven Perry) tells his teacher that his parents are arguing in order to get out of homework and attempts to prove it at Open House night.

“Dance Off” premieres Sunday, May 2 @ 8:30PM ET/PT on Disney Channel.

You may know her as Juliet from Disney’s hit series Wizards of Waverly Place, but Bridgit Mendler will be front and center in the young Hollywood spotlight, as she stars in her new Disney television series called Good Luck Charlie (Premiering TONIGHT on Disney at 8:30pm). We had the opportunity to talk to Bridgit, who chatted about her new role, as well as what it’s like being in the Disney family!
Bridgit stars as Teddy in Good Luck Charlie, along side Jason Dolley who plays her brother. “It’s about this family of 5 who has another child, and the parents have to go back to work so the kids have to help out with the baby, and all sorts of chaos ensues.” Bridgit said. “It’s been really fun to do.”
Bridgit even revealed that she often relates to her character, being a teen girl. “I’ve had a lot of fun with some of Teddy’s more nerdy moments – I’m kind of a nerd myself, like in one of the episodes Teddy had to be a bad dancer which I had some fun with, got to give her some nerdy dance moves and just little stuff like that where Teddy isn’t as cool as she might seem.”
With the premiere happening tonight, Bridgit is super excited for people to see what she’s been working on. “I’m so excited! It was so surreal for me to actually become part of the Disney family, and I’ve been watching Disney channel all my life so it was just so crazy to actually become a part of it.” She confessed. “We’ve been working on the show since the end of August last year, and now things are gearing up for it to be released, and I’m so excited for everyone to actually be able to see what we’ve been working on.”
Even though Bridgit is good friends with the rest of the cast, she did say that she would love to have her real life friends join her on screen in an episode! “I’ve already had one of my really good friends guest star, so that was awesome to have her on the show. I would love to have my best friend on the show. She’s visited a couple of times, but she hasn’t actually been on it.”
“Generally we do live audience episodes and it’s really cool.” Bridgit said about filming the sitcom in front of a live studio audience. “What definitely puts me at ease is having all my lines memorized. If I don’t have my lines memorized and I go out there in front of the group of people, and I mess up, it’s kind of embarrassing. I wanna have all my lines down so I know what I’m doing in the scene, and I’m ready to go. “
Be sure to tune in to Disney tonight at 8:30pm to watch the show! Brigit also appears on the Disney Mania 7 CD, where she sings When She Loved Me. The CD is in stores now!