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Dan Schneider gave his first interview relating to the allegations in opposition to him within the current docuseries Quiet on Set.
“Watching over the previous two nights was very tough,” Schneider, 58, mentioned in a YouTube video interview with iCarly alum BooG!e on Tuesday, March 19. “Me going through my previous behaviors, a few of that are embarrassing and that I remorse, and I positively owe some folks a reasonably sturdy apology.”
Within the two-part docuseries, which premiered on ID on Sunday, March 17, and Monday, March 18, many former Nickelodeon workers got here ahead to speak about their damaging experiences working with Schneider.
“I can let you know why it hurts actually unhealthy for me. I keep in mind very clearly my early experiences [and] my first experiences within the leisure enterprise,” Schneider mentioned. “I used to be inexperienced, I used to be scared, I used to be excited. It meant the world to me that I used to be getting these alternatives and I went in and I obtained fortunate trigger they have been nice.”
Investigation Discovery/YouTube Quiet on Set: The Darkish Facet of Children TV offers former youngster stars and crew members the chance to talk out about their damaging experiences at Nickelodeon. Investigation Discovery’s docuseries, which can air on Sunday, March 17, and Monday, March 18, focuses particularly on producer Dan Schneider’s notorious reign on the community. Schneider, […]
Schneider confessed that after having such a memorable begin early on in his profession, he ought to have executed the identical for his workers.
“And the truth that I didn’t pay that ahead to each worker that walked via my door, it hurts my coronary heart trigger I ought to have,” he expressed. “I want I may return and repair that.”
Within the doc, Christy Stratton and Jenny Kilgen claimed that the surroundings within the writers’ room was inappropriate, particularly since they have been tasked with creating jokes for kids’s programming. The writers alleged that the room’s humor concerned grownup conduct and sexual innuendos. Kilgen additionally claimed that Schneider requested her for massages on a number of events.
“No author ought to ever really feel uncomfortable in any writers’ room, ever, interval, the tip, no excuses,” Schneider mentioned of the writers’ allegations. “Most TV writers [and] comedy writers have been in writers’ rooms and they’re conscious there are inappropriate jokes made and inappropriate matters come up. However the truth I participated in that, particularly once I was main the room, it embarrasses me. I shouldn’t have executed it.”
Schneider confessed his habits within the room went “too far” and that he wouldn’t behave in that method at present. The TV author admitted he would “snap” and “be snarky” to his former workers from time to time.
“I’d let the strain of doing 40 or much more episodes per yr,” Schneider defined. “I’d let that strain get to me, which a very good boss ought to by no means ever do.”
He additionally shared that whereas watching the documentary, he felt compelled to select up the telephone and name the victims to apologize for his actions.
Quiet on Set: The Darkish Facet of Children TV explored what brought on actress Amanda Bynes and producer Dan Schneider to cease working collectively. The Investigation Discovery docuseries, which can air on Sunday, March 17, and Monday, March 18, options interviews with former Nickelodeon solid and crew members about Bynes and Schneider’s skilled relationship. Schneider, 58, […]
Along with many Nickelodeon alums coming ahead about their experiences with Schneider, the doc additionally explored his relationship with Amanda Bynes. The previous actress, now 37, starred on All That and ultimately obtained her personal sequence, The Amanda Present, which launched her into superstardom.
Whereas she was in her late teenagers, Bynes wished to get emancipated from her mother and father and allegedly went to her staff, which included Schneider, for assist.
“We supported her,” Schneider mentioned of the state of affairs with Bynes on Tuesday. “She tried to get emancipated. It ended up not figuring out and she or he didn’t.”
Whereas Bynes discovered success as an actress, she additionally had her justifiable share of ups and downs. Bynes struggled along with her psychological well being and was positioned below a conservatorship in 2013, which led to 2022.
Schneider labored for Nickelodeon all through the 90s and early 2000s. Throughout his time on the community, he helped create, write and produce a number of of their hit sequence, together with All That, Drake & Josh, iCarly, Sam & Cat, The Amanda Present, Victorious and Zoey 101.
Schneider parted methods with the community in 2018 after he was accused of inappropriate misconduct. On the time, Schneider denied the claims. Forward of the doc’s premiere, Schneider’s rep launched a press release to Us Weekly concerning the allegations.
“Dan cared concerning the youngsters on his reveals even when generally their very own households sadly didn’t. He understood what they have been going via and he was their greatest champion. The actual fact is lots of the youngsters 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,” the assertion learn. “Add on high of that the difficulties of rising up and having to take action below the highlight whereas working a demanding job, all as a baby. That’s the reason there are lots of ranges of requirements, executives, attorneys, academics and oldsters in every single place, on a regular basis, on each set, day by day. Nonetheless, it’s nonetheless a tough place to be a child and no one knew that higher than Dan.”
