Dan Schneider, the creator and producer of a number of hit Nickelodeon reveals, has responded to accusations that he fostered an unsafe work atmosphere on his TV units after they have been detailed within the current documentary sequence Quiet on Set
The four-part Investigation Discovery sequence, which aired on Max on March 16 and 17, options Kyle Sullivan and different All That forged members, together with Giovonnie Samuels and Katrina Johnson, speaking about their experiences on the units of well-liked Nickelodeon reveals from the 2000s like Drake & Josh, The Amanda Present, iCarly, Victorious, Sam & Cat, and Zoey 101, which Schneider created and produced. The docuseries highlights a number of inappropriate moments from completely different Schneider reveals, together with occasions when little one actors have been put in compromising positions and made jokes that weren’t applicable for kids. One of many examples that’s proven to Marc Summers, the previous host of a well-liked Nickelodeon present referred to as Double Dare, is Ariana Grande as Cat Valentine (a personality in Victorious and Sam & Cat) inappropriately dealing with a potato.
On Tuesday, Schneider launched a 19-minute video on his YouTube channel that includes an interview with BooG!E, who performed T-Bo on iCarly, to speak about this response to the sequence, which he stated was “tough” to observe. In line with a consultant for Schneider, the interview came about after BooG!E watched the docuseries and requested if he might speak with the producer.
“Me dealing with my previous behaviors, a few of that are embarrassing and that I remorse. I positively owe some folks a reasonably robust apology,” Schneider says within the video.
In an announcement emailed to TIME, Schneider’s consultant says, “Dan apologizes, expresses remorse and embarrassment and holds himself accountable for his earlier conduct.” In line with the assertion, Schneider acknowledges he ought to have “by no means requested for massages” and “crossed a line within the writers’ room with the jokes that he informed and the pranks that he pulled.”
“Dan is asking for a few of his previous jokes to now be lower from the reruns of his previous reveals,” the consultant says within the assertion. “Dan completely by no means meant for any of these jokes that at the moment are being seen as sexualized content material to be something apart from humorous for youths.”
Watching the sequence, Schneider says he “might see the harm in some folks’s eyes” and stated that it made him “really feel terrible and regretful and sorry.” He says that he needs he might return and “simply do a greater job and by no means, ever really feel prefer it was okay to be an asshole to anybody, ever.” He additionally addressed actor Drake Bell saying within the sequence that he was sexually assaulted by former Nickelodeon dialogue coach Brian Peck, saying Bell confided in him on the time and informed him what occurred.
Schneider maintains that he was “there for these younger actors typically when no one else was” and denies that any of his relationships with them have been inappropriate, in keeping with the assertion. “It isn’t correct and even okay in any solution to suggest that his relationship with any of the actors was in any approach inappropriate, that’s simply not true.”
This interview comes a day after The Hollywood Reporter revealed an announcement from Schneider denying having fostered a poisonous work atmosphere and “sexualizing” little one actors. “Every little thing that occurred on the reveals Dan ran was fastidiously scrutinized by dozens of concerned adults, and accredited by the community,” says the assertion. “Had there been any scenes or outfits that have been inappropriate in any approach, they might have been flagged and blocked by this multilayered scrutiny.”