From pedophiles on set to sexism in the writers’ room, the first part of new docuseries 'Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV' made numerous troubling claims about Nickelodeon during Dan Schneider's reign in the 1990s and early 2000s.
aired on Investigation Discovery on Sunday night, and the show dropped a number of disconcerting bombs about the workplace culture atexamines the toxic environment at Nick during the reign of megaproducer Dan Schneider, who created and executive produced hit series likeSchneider and Nickelodeon parted ways in 2018 after a two-decade working relationship, following a ViacomCBS investigation that determined no evidence of sexual misconduct but concluded that Schneider was verbally abusive on set,...
Two key subjects in the documentary, Jenny Kilgen and Christy Stratton, who were interviewed separately, described their experiences as the only two women writers during the first season of. Kilgen and Stratton described patterns of allegedly distressing behavior from Dan Schneider in the workplace. A spokesperson for Schneider told EW, “Dan deeply regrets asking anyone for neck massages. Though they happened in public settings, he knows this was highly inappropriate and would never happen again.”The most explicit incident of alleged sexual harassment came later. “Christy was talking about high school, which is relevant because we’re writing for a young girl,” Kilgen recalled.
’s Bryan Christopher Hearne was asked to play a rapper. “There was a sketch where I played the youngest rapper of all time, Lil Fetus,” Hearne said. “They were fitting me for the Lil Fetus role. And essentially, you’re a fetus, so you nekked, but you know they had to put a body suit on me, and obviously it has to be skin tone. Someone said, ‘The skin tone should be charcoal.’ I started to get teary eyed.
A spokesperson for Schneider told EW, “Everything that happened on the shows Dan ran was carefully scrutinized by dozens of involved adults, and approved by the network. If there was an actual problem with the scenes that some people, now years later are ‘sexualizing’, they would be taken down, but they are not, they are aired constantly all over the world today still, enjoyed by both kids and parents.
“Dan would come down and yell and scream. There was many times where I had to go ‘Okay. You’re creating an atmosphere on this set that is not healthy,’” saiddirector Virgil Fabian. “He was just an egomaniac. You know, when everybody is just kissing your butt, and the money's crazy, how do you avoid that? I don’t know how you avoid that.”
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