Where Is Dan Schneider Now? What the Former Nickelodeon Producer Is Doing Today
ID’s Quiet on Set: The Darkish Aspect of Children TV unpacks a number of former Nickelodeon forged and crew members’ experiences engaged on the community within the Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s. From sexual assault allegations towards two little one predators (Brian Peck and Jason Helpful), to office harassment claims, one of many greatest names talked about within the doc is former producer Dan Schneider. Nickelodeon parted methods from Schneider in 2018, and viewers are asking the place he’s now and what he’s been doing.
Study extra about Schneider and the place he’s beneath.
Who Is Dan Schneider?
Schneider is credited because the creator of a number of well-known Teen Nick exhibits, together with Zoey 101, Drake & Josh, iCarly and extra. He was additionally the brains behind All That and the sketch comedy sequence On Air Dares as a part of SNICK (Saturday Evening Nickelodeon), and labored as an actor and a screenwriter.
Within the Quiet on Set doc, former All That actor Bryan Hearne recalled the uncomfortable and generally horrifying dares the younger forged members had been subjected to. Episodes of On Air Dares would begin by displaying varied All That actors in glass containers, and one can be chosen at random to do a particular dare, corresponding to having a scorpion hold inside their mouth or being submerged in a bath of worms. Hearne recalled his uncomfortable dares on the phase and alleged there was racism on the set.
“They had been becoming me for the little fetus function, and basically you’re a fetus, so you’re bare,” he defined. “You may have a bodysuit on you and it must be pores and skin tone. Somebody stated, ‘The pores and skin tone needs to be charcoal.’ I began to get teary eyed.”
Hearne additionally alleged, “Dan had a nicer relationship with among the different white youngsters. I didn’t really feel near him in any respect. My time on Nickelodeon performed a giant function in how I dealt and nonetheless take care of racial points.”
Former iCarly star Jennette McCurdy additionally detailed a number of interactions with Schneider in her 2022 memoir, I’m Glad My Mother Died. With out straight naming him, McCurdy known as him “The Creator” in her e book and described how offended he turned at her whereas filming the kissing scene between her character, Sam, and Nathan Kress‘ character, Freddie.
“The Creator appears me proper within the eye however doesn’t say something for 4 or 5 seconds,” McCurdy wrote in her memoir. “I virtually begin to giggle, pondering he could be messing with me for enjoyable like he does generally, however then I acknowledge that there’s a deep anger in him. That is no time for laughter.”
McCurdy additionally detailed her discomfort about Schneider having her put on a swimsuit on the children’ present. Different allegations of kid sexualization got here to gentle about Schneider’s choices behind the digicam.
In response to the Quiet on Set doc, Nickelodeon launched a press release to Hollywood Life.
“Although we can not corroborate or negate allegations of behaviors from productions a long time in the past, Nickelodeon as a matter of coverage investigates all formal complaints as a part of our dedication to fostering a protected {and professional} office atmosphere freed from harassment or different kinds of inappropriate conduct,” the community’s 2024 assertion learn. “Our highest priorities are the well-being and greatest pursuits not simply of our staff, casts and crew, however of all youngsters, and we’ve got adopted quite a few safeguards over time to assist guarantee we live as much as our personal excessive requirements and the expectations of our viewers.”
A rep for Schneider additionally responded to the docuseries’ allegations, per Selection.
“Every little thing that occurred on the exhibits Dan ran was fastidiously scrutinized by dozens of concerned adults, and permitted by the community,” the rep stated. “If there was an precise drawback with the scenes that some folks, now years later are ‘sexualizing,’ they might be taken down, however they don’t seem to be, they’re aired consistently everywhere in the world as we speak nonetheless, loved by each youngsters and fogeys. … As well as, every single day on each set, there have been at all times dad and mom and caregivers and their buddies watching filming and rehearsals. Had there been any scenes or outfits that had been inappropriate in any approach, they might have been flagged and blocked by this multilayered scrutiny. Sadly, some adults undertaking their grownup minds onto youngsters’ exhibits, drawing false conclusions about them.”
The place Is Dan Schneider Now?
Throughout a 2021 interview with The New York Instances, Schneider “declined to remark” on the investigation into his work ethics however insisted that he didn’t depart Nickelodeon on “dangerous phrases.” He additionally talked about that he served as co-creator of the Henry Hazard spinoff, Hazard Drive and “took a break to care for quite a lot of stuff that I’d let go by the wayside for many years.”
Schneider additionally famous on the time that he was engaged on a pilot for an additional community that was geared for “extra of an grownup viewers.”
As of 2024, it’s unclear if Schneider is engaged on another TV exhibits.
Was Dan Schneider Fired From Nickelodeon?
In 2018, Schneider and Nickelodeon launched a joint assertion to a number of shops, saying the tip of their collaboration.
“Following many conversations collectively about subsequent instructions and future alternatives, Nickelodeon and our long-time inventive associate Dan Schneider/Schneider’s Bakery have agreed to not lengthen the present deal,” the assertion learn. “Since a number of Schneider’s Bakery initiatives are wrapping up, either side agreed that this can be a pure time for Nickelodeon and Schneider’s Bakery to pursue different alternatives and initiatives. … Dan and his Schneider’s Bakery staff have created a string of lasting, groundbreaking hits over time together with iCarly, Drake & Josh, Victorious, Kenan & Kel and the present number-one hit present on Nickelodeon, Henry Hazard. We thank Dan and his Schneider’s Bakery producers, executives and social media staff for his or her immeasurable contributions to Nickelodeon, and we want them one of the best of their future endeavor[s]. And Dan and Schneider’s Bakery are pleased with the work they did along with Nickelodeon and can at all times stay huge followers of the community.”