By Bernd Debusmann JrBBC Information, Washington28 minutes agoImage supply, Getty ImagesImage caption, Dan Schneider labored on widespread exhibits together with iCarly, All That and The Amanda ShowFormer Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider has apologised for his “embarrassing” on-set behaviour whereas engaged on the kids’s channel.A brand new documentary launched earlier this week alleged years of abuse and inappropriate behaviour at exhibits together with iCarly and Drake and Josh. Mr Schneider left Nickelodeon in 2018 after an investigation discovered that he was verbally abusive to workers members. He has now stated he owes “some individuals a reasonably sturdy apology”. The four-part docuseries, Quiet on Set: The Darkish Facet of Children TV, contains a number of allegations of Mr Schneider making inappropriate and sexual jokes on-set. Former Amanda Present author Jenny Kilgen, for instance, alleged that Mr Schneider requested for a therapeutic massage in trade for her sketches being put within the present. “He would at all times current it like a joke… he could be laughing whereas he stated it,” Kilgen stated. “Nevertheless it at all times felt like disagreeing with Dan or standing up for your self may end in you getting fired.” “I positively owe some individuals a reasonably sturdy apology,” he stated. Mr Schneider additionally particularly apologised for the inappropriate jokes he made within the writers’ room, saying it was “fallacious”. “I apologise to anyone that I ever put in that state of affairs, and even moreover, I apologise to the individuals who have been strolling round video village or wherever they occurred, as a result of there have been plenty of individuals there who witnessed it who additionally could have felt uncomfortable.” Within the docuseries, actor Drake Bell alleged he was a sufferer of sexual abuse by former dialogue coach Brian Peck, with whom Mr Schneider labored carefully on All That and The Amanda Present. Peck was sentenced to 16 months in jail in 2004 after pleading no contest to 2 expenses of kid abuse.In his apology, Mr Schneider stated that the episode with Peck and Mr Bell was the “darkest half” of his profession. “After I watched the present… I may see the damage in some individuals’s eyes,” he stated of the documentary.Nickelodeon has but to answer Mr Schneider’s apology. In a earlier assertion in regards to the docuseries, nevertheless, the community stated that it “can’t corroborate or negate allegations of behaviours from productions a long time in the past” however investigates all formal complaints “as a matter of coverage”. “Our highest priorities are the well-being and greatest pursuits not simply of our staff, casts and crew, however of all youngsters,” the assertion added.