Dan Schneider, creator of iconic children reveals like ‘The Amanda Present,’ ‘Drake & Josh,’ ‘Zoey 101,’ ‘iCarly,’ ‘Victorious’ and extra, denies sexualizing his younger stars like Ariana Grande, Jennette McCurdy, and Jamie Lynn Spears.
Dan Schneider has been chasing allegations of awkward and probably inappropriate conduct on the units of his numerous Nickelodeon reveals for some time now, however the launch of ID’s docuseries Quiet on Set: The Darkish Aspect of Children TV is shining a lightweight brilliant sufficient that Schneider responded.
The brand new collection takes a peek inside a few of his reveals, together with All That, Kenan & Kel, iCarly, Zoey 101, Victorious, Drake & Josh, The Amanda Present, and extra. These reveals introduced pleasure to a technology of followers, however the collection is displaying how painful it was for a few of these concerned.
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In response to the primary a part of the two-part docuseries premiering Sunday evening (the second half premieres tonight), a consultant for Schneider advised Selection, “All the things that occurred on the reveals Dan ran was fastidiously scrutinized by dozens of concerned adults, and authorized by the community.”
“If there was an precise drawback with the scenes that some individuals, now years later are ‘sexualizing,’” the assertion continued, “they’d be taken down, however they don’t seem to be, they’re aired continually all around the world in the present day nonetheless, loved by each children and oldsters.”
“Keep in mind, all tales, dialogue, costumes, and make-up had been totally authorized by community executives on two coasts,” the consultant stated. “A requirements and practices group learn and in the end authorized each script, and programming executives reviewed and authorized all episodes.”
What I can verify, nevertheless, is that he was a f–king a–hole.
“As well as, every single day on each set, there have been at all times dad and mom and caregivers and their buddies watching filming and rehearsals,” the assertion continued. “Had there been any scenes or outfits that had been inappropriate in any method, they’d have been flagged and blocked by this multilayered scrutiny.”
“Sadly, some adults mission their grownup minds onto children’ reveals, drawing false conclusions about them,” the consultant’s assertion concluded.
Whereas Schneider vehemently denied any “sexualizing” intent behind something he filmed for his myriad collection, the prolific creator did acknowledge and specific remorse after allegations that he requested constantly for neck massages from crew members.
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“Dan deeply regrets asking anybody for neck massages,” stated his group. “Although they occurred in public settings, he is aware of this was extremely inappropriate and would by no means occur once more.”
A community spokesperson for Nickelodeon additionally responded to the outlet with remark.
“Although we can’t corroborate or negate allegations of behaviors from productions many years in the past, Nickelodeon as a matter of coverage investigates all formal complaints as a part of our dedication to fostering a protected {and professional} office setting freed from harassment or different kinds of inappropriate conduct,” it learn.
“Our highest priorities are the well-being and finest pursuits not simply of our workers, casts and crew, however of all youngsters,” the assertion continued, “and we’ve got adopted quite a few safeguards through the years to assist guarantee we live as much as our personal excessive requirements and the expectations of our viewers.”
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The community echoed the extraordinary scrutiny on each set, each scene, each joke, from executives and oldsters to Nickelodeon’s expertise administration division.
“Each single factor that Dan ever did on any of his reveals was fastidiously scrutinized and authorized by executives at Nickelodeon,” stated former president of content material and manufacturing, Russell Hicks.
A former co-executive producer and author on Kenan & Kel and All That, Amy Berg, did defend Schneider on any allegations of “bodily inappropriate conduct.” A number of these allegations have stemmed from fan compilations on social media speculating on capturing decisions made, like an emphasis on his younger actress’ ft, for example.
Whereas she had her former colleague’s again on ideas of bodily inappropriate conduct — at the least through the time she labored with him — Berg didn’t maintain again in different areas, calling Schneider “a f–king a–hole” and “psychological tormenter” who stole her 20s from her.
“He launched me to panic assaults and the stress of working for him induced me to develop a major coronary heart arrhythmia,” Beg wrote to her X/Twitter as a part of a prolonged response to the brand new docuseries.
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She stated she labored with Schneider as his assistant for lower than a yr — her “VERY first job on the town.” She stated that she needed to have surgical procedure to appropriate her arrhythmia, and that impacted her private life and has given her an nervousness dysfunction when “confronted with different manipulators.”
Quiet on the Set is not the primary supply of criticism about Schneider, both. In reality, the creators of the docuseries stated they had been impressed to make their movie after Jennette McCurdy’s memoir I am Glad My Mother Died, the place she says she felt “exploited” by a person she solely known as “The Creator,” and a Enterprise Insider report by Kate Taylor, in addition to the aforementioned compilation clips, per Forbes.
A few of the shared clips, apart from these some have seen as fetishizing ft, have included Ariana Grande pouring water on herself and squeezing a potato, and Jamie Lynn Spears getting squirted within the face with a viscous substance.
After two investigations by Viacom/CBS in 2018 discovered no proof of sexual misconduct, however did discover help for allegations of verbal abuse on set, Schneider and Nickelodeon parted methods.
“The actual fact is lots of the children on these reveals are put within the untenable place of changing into the breadwinner for his or her household and the strain that comes together with that,” Schneider’s spokesperson advised Folks in a separate assertion.
“Dan has stated himself that he was a troublesome boss to work for and if he may do issues over once more he would act in a different way,” the spokesperson added. “However let’s be clear: When Dan departed Nickelodeon a full investigation was finished and once more, all that was discovered is that he was a difficult, powerful and demanding particular person to work for and with, nothing else.”
Since separating from Nickelodeon, Schneider stated he is had time to concentrate on himself, dropping greater than 100 kilos, and has been engaged on a brand new pilot for a unique community that is for “extra of an grownup viewers.”
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