Dan Schneider Issues Apology After ‘Quiet on Set’ Backlash

Former Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider has issued an apology after a documentary collection about his time with the community sparked backlash.

Schneider created a number of the hottest kids’s reveals on the Community within the 90s together with Drake & Josh, All That, iCarly and Victorious. A number of of the present’s actors stepped ahead to allege they had been sexually abused and harassed on set and that the content material sexualized younger youngsters.

Within the collection, Drake Bell revealed he was sexually abused by Brian Peck, a dialogue coach. In 2004, Peck was sentenced to 16 months in jail after pleading no contest to a rely apiece of lewd act upon a baby 14 or 15 by an individual 10 years older and oral copulation of an individual below 16.

“Watching over the past two nights was very difficult for me,” he continued. “Facing my past behaviors, some of which are embarrassing and that I regret, and I definitely owe some people a pretty strong apology.”

Schneider mentioned that his bosses needed to approve no matter he labored on.

. “There were many, many levels of scrutiny,” he mentioned. “These are my bosses’ bosses and then their bosses, and then their bosses, and they’re approving all of this stuff. We’re also shooting it in front of all sorts of adults and caregivers and set teachers and the families.”

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