'Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV' features interviews from former Nickelodeon cast and crew about the 'toxic' work environment during Dan Schneider’s reign
Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV gives former child stars and crew members the opportunity to speak out about their negative experiences at Nickelodeon.
A spokesperson for Schneider released a statement before Quiet on Set's release, which read, “Dan cared about the kids on his shows even when sometimes their own families unfortunately did not. He understood what they were going through and he was their biggest champion. The fact is many of the kids on these shows are put in the untenable position of becoming the breadwinner for their family and the pressure that comes along with that.
'From the time I was nine to 16, I starred on All That. Dan Schneider was my mentor,' she noted. 'When we were filming the pilot, he came up to me and he said, 'I chose you. You are my choice and I know you are going to be great.' It made me feel like a million bucks.' According to Johnson, she was originally offered a show titled The Katrina Show. That never materialized and ultimately Schneider shifted his focus to Bynes, who would go on to star on The Amanda Show in the early 2000s.Bryan Hearne and Leon Frierson were just a few of the All That stars who weren't thrilled with some of the content they had to film. Frierson, 37, specifically recalled feeling 'very exposed' while wearing leotards for various sketches.
Sullivan, 35, said the 'dysfunctional' comedy spread across most of Schneider's content, adding, 'The show was full of these uncomfortable sketches. I think Dan got a kick out of walking a line with that.' The issues didn't just take place on screen. According to Kilgen, the problems started early on when she and Stratton were asked to split a salary, which didn't apply to any of the men on staff. She also claimed Schneider would request for writers to yell out 'degrading' words while working in the room.
'I'm not proud of it,' she told the cameras while getting emotional. 'Thinking about it now, I just think of that poor girl and what she had to go through. I would not do that today but I did it then.' 'The reason I did this was because I didn't want this happening to other women in the future,' Kilgen explained. 'In response, they did an internal investigation. They settled but it had a lasting impact on my career. I knew that this was the end of my career so it better be worth it. And he better stop. It didn't stop and it was all for nothing.'
Handy, now 49, exchanged numbers with the kids and parents on set. He started emailing a then 11-year-old Brandi, which MJ said was 'very innocent' at first. MJ was later alerted to a message Handy sent to Brandi of him 'naked and masturbating.' MJ revealed in the docuseries that her daughter testified in the case against Handy. They received a call from a detective in 2003 after Handy's home was searched and they discovered ziplock bags with tokens from various underage girls.
'Everybody loved Brian. He was charming and clever. He was around all the time,' Sullivan recalled. 'All the parents loved him too. Everybody trusted Brian.' Several months later, Peck was arrested for sexually abusing a then-unnamed child star. The 11 charges brought against Peck included oral copulation, sodomy and forcible penetration. He pleaded no contest to two charges of child sexual abuse and was sentenced to 16 months in prison and had to register as a sex offender.
'You had to be as good or better or put more hours or do longer things than Dan did. We all did it or you got fired,' she claimed. 'Dan Schneider would sit in the very back row and he would make comments the whole time. They were sometimes very degrading. He would not talk to me. He would tell his associate producer, 'Tell her to make this edit. Tell her to trim this.''
According to All Your Screens writer and founder Rick Ellis, Nickelodeon launched an internal investigation because 'the situation got so bad.' Taylor, meanwhile, stated that Schneider 'was no longer allowed to interact with the cast' after the network allegedly found that he was 'contributing' to a 'toxic' environment.
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