https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/arts/dan-schneider-apology-quiet-on-set.htmlDan Schneider, the children’s television producer and writer behind many of Nickelodeon’s biggest hits, released a video on Tuesday in which he apologized for some of his behavior on the job, including soliciting massages on set. The video comes after the release of a documentary series in which former employees denounced him as a boss and objected to sexualized humor in his shows.
The four-episode series, “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” included interviews with numerous former employees on Schneider’s shows and former child actors who criticized the way he treated them or described the environment on the set as harmful.
Schneider declined to be interviewed for the series, which first aired Sunday and Monday. But it had the effect of drawing him out of relative obscurity to address the many complaints about the shows, and the treatment of the people who worked on them. Schneider has rarely been in the public eye since separating from Nickelodeon in 2018, after an investigation by ViacomCBS, the parent company of Nickelodeon, which found that many people he worked with viewed him as verbally abusive.
