Ex-Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider apologizes after ‘Quiet on Set’ docuseries

Former Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider apologized for his habits and the on-set ambiance of the preteen- and teen-focused reveals he produced throughout the 2000s and 2010s.

Schneider, who parted strategies with the neighborhood in 2018, spoke out in response to the Investigation Discovery assortment “Quiet on Set: The Darkish Facet of Youngsters TV,” which aired Sunday and Monday.

All through a video dialog with actor Bobbie Okay. Bowman, additionally known as BooG!e, Schneider talked about viewing the docuseries was “troublesome” and “embarrassing.”

“Going by means of my earlier behaviors — a number of of which can be embarrassing and that I regret — and I positively owe some of us a reasonably sturdy apology,” Schneider talked about.

He spoke to Bowman, who carried out T-Bo on “iCarly,” in a video uploaded to Schneider’s YouTube channel Tuesday.

Schneider produced a number of of Nickelodeon’s most worthwhile reveals, along with “All That,” “The Amanda Current,” “Drake and Josh” and “iCarly.”

“Quiet on Set” featured plenty of actors and former infant stars who alleged abuse, inappropriate habits and a toxic work environment whereas displaying on reveals produced by Schneider.

“It was improper that I ever put anybody in that place,” Schneider talked about when he was requested about massages that occurred at work. “I apologize to anybody that I ever put in that situation.”

“There have been quite a few of us there who witnessed it who moreover may need felt uncomfortable. So I owe them an apology, as properly.”

Schneider talked about any questionable content material materials or jokes throughout the reveals must be decrease from vaulted and rerun episodes.

“Every a sort of jokes was written for a kid viewers on account of youngsters thought that they had been humorous,” Schneider talked about. “Now we now have some adults making an attempt once more at them 20 years later by way of their lens. I’ve no draw back with that. Let’s decrease these jokes out of the current.”

He moreover reiterated an announcement he launched earlier that talked about plenty of neighborhood executives permitted the content material materials and look of his reveals and that dozens of adults had been on set and under no circumstances raised points.

He moreover addressed an investigation that occurred sooner than he left the neighborhood and talked about it found no wrongdoing.

“All that was found is that he was a troublesome, highly effective and demanding particular person to work for and with, nothing else,” a spokesperson for Schneider has talked about.

In “Quiet on Set,” Drake Bell, who starred throughout the current “Drake and Josh,” comes forward with accusations in direction of dialogue coach Brian Peck. 

Peck — an in depth collaborator of Schneider’s on “All That” and “The Amanda Current,” the latter of which Bell appeared on steadily — was arrested in 2003 and charged with “lewd acts with a child,” based mostly on a info launch from the Los Angeles Police Division. The discharge talked about Peck had molested an unidentified minor he had labored with over a interval of six months. 

After he pleaded no contest, Peck was convicted of lewd or lascivious acts with a 14- or 15-year-old infant and oral copulation with a minor beneath 16, based mostly on a case summary from Los Angeles County Superior Courtroom. He was sentenced to 16 months in jail.

A guide for Peck did not reply to a request for comment. 

Schneider acquired emotional in regards to the case and talked about he did not hire Peck.

He talked about he has tried to be there for actors, serving to Bell’s mother when Bell was dealing with approved factors.

Bell was sentenced to two years of probation for infant endangerment after he was accused of “grooming” a female sufferer when she was 12. He pleaded accountable to felony tried infant endangerment and a misdemeanor value for disseminating matter harmful to juveniles.

Schneider talked about television reveals that operate infant actors must have therapists on set who’ve power to seek out out whether or not or not a juvenile really needs to be working.

“If a baby doesn’t have to be on a TV current, they will select out,” he talked about.

Nickelodeon did not immediately reply to a request for comment about Schneider’s apology video. A neighborhood spokesperson, responding to the docuseries, beforehand talked about the following:

“Though we cannot corroborate or negate allegations of behaviors from productions a few years up to now, Nickelodeon as a matter of protection investigates all formal complaints as part of our dedication to fostering a protected {{and professional}} workplace environment free of harassment or totally different sorts of inappropriate conduct. Our highest priorities are the well-being and biggest pursuits not merely of our staff, casts and crew, nonetheless of all children, and we now have adopted fairly a number of safeguards over time to help assure we reside as a lot as our private extreme necessities and the expectations of our viewers.”

Alexa Nikolas, who carried out Nicole Bristow on the Schneider-created “Zoey 101” on Nickelodeon, in a livestream on her YouTube channel Tuesday known as for further safeguards for youthful actors, along with having third-party advocates and ending nondisclosure agreements for teenagers.

“I don’t actually really feel harmful for you, Dan Schneider, on account of it’s sad that it took you this prolonged to apologize to us,” she talked about exterior Nickelodeon’s Burbank, California, workplaces Tuesday.

“Not solely did you bully me, you really put me in a situation the place creeps are going to take a look at me in a positive means as a child,” she talked about. “You’re embarrassed? That’s a joke.”

Schneider talked about throughout the YouTube video that he was inexperienced when he ran a number of of a cable neighborhood’s most treasured franchises and acknowledged that sometimes, he was “straight-up rude.”

“I could very nicely be cocky and positively overambitious,” he talked about.

“If I could return I’d get it completed in quite a few strategies,” Schneider talked about. “I is perhaps nicer.”