2011/06/18
by Chanel
After appearing on the ABC laffer “Sports Night” and the HBO drama “Six Feet Under,” Peter Krause (“Parenthood”) has returned to the peacock net where he got his TV start two decades ago on “Carol & Company. ” At just 25, he was by far the youngest member of a repertory company that also included Richard Kind and Swoozie Kurtz who supported Emmy darling Carol Burnett in half-hour comedy teleplays.
Back then, NBC was also airing its first short-lived adapation of the hit 1989 Ron Howard film “Parenthood.” That single-camera half-hour show starred Ed Begley, Jr. in the same role as Krause, which had been played by Steve Martin on screen. The show also featured Leonardo DiCaprio as one of the children. This current incarnation from creator Jason Katims (“Friday Night Lights”) keeps the premise of an extended family but has expanded to a full hour and changed the names of the characters.
Krause plays Adam, “a character whose chief aim in life is to be the best father he can be and the best husband he can be, and I think that is really admirable,” He is married to Kristina (Monica Potter) and father to rebellious teen daughter Haddie (Sarah Ramos) and Max (Max Burkholder, a boy with Asperger’s. Living nearby are Adam’s parents Zeke (Craig T. Nelson) and Camille (Bonnie Bedelia) as well as his two sisters — Sarah (Lauren Graham) and Julia (Erika Christensen) — his brother Crosby (Dax Shepard), and their respective mates and children.
