A number of individuals in Quiet on Set: The Darkish Aspect of Children TV declare they weren’t knowledgeable the docuseries would air on the Investigation Discovery community, a.okay.a. ID.
“I’m not too acquainted with ID, however for the interview I sat down for, it was not an applicable community for the present,” Raquel Lee Bolleau, a former star of Nickelodeon’s The Amanda Present, advised IndieWire in an interview revealed on Saturday, April 20. “I had no clue it was on [ID] till one or two weeks earlier than it aired.”
Quiet on Set aired on ID on March 17 and 18 and examined the poisonous work surroundings for baby actors at Nickelodeon. The documentary options allegations of abuse towards Dan Schneider, who created fashionable Nickelodeon exhibits like Zoey 101, Drake & Josh, iCarly, Victorious and Sam & Cat. It additionally contains an interview with Drake Bell, who detailed the abuse he suffered by the hands of dialogue coach Brian Peck.
“I see folks [online] asking, ‘How might you be part of one thing that you just didn’t know what it was?’ However when folks have an agenda, they’re going to be very, very meticulous and strategic on how they get that agenda to the place they need it to be,” Lee Bolleau mentioned.
The dialog across the alleged poisonous work surroundings at Nickelodeon may be getting began. Quiet on Set: The Darkish Aspect of Children TV, which aired in March on Investigation Discovery, lined producer Dan Schneider’s time on the community, with former baby stars and crew members recalling their experiences on the units of assorted exhibits […]
One other interviewee, former Zoey 101 forged member Alexa Nikolas, advised IndieWire, “Once I regarded it up, my first thought was our tales and the dialog that deserves available round them are approach greater than ID and deserve a extra credible platform. A extra critical one.”
She added, “I really feel that the sensationalism was revved up due to it being on ID. It might have been curated otherwise and would have been extra impactful on [another network].”
Us Weekly has reached out to ID for remark.
Each Nikolas and Lee Bolleau imagine that interview topics had been deliberately saved in the dead of night about sure features of the venture and its affiliations. Each ladies filmed their interviews in 2023 and say they’d no thought Quiet on Set would air on ID till February and March 2024.
Moreover, at one level, the ladies thought the doc was being made particularly for Max, although most ID titles stream on Max anyway because of the Warner Bros. Discovery merger in 2022. “I’m upset about them preserving it secret from me,” Lee Bolleau mentioned. “I really feel like they did that as a result of they knew if we had been conscious of the magnitude of how massive this was going to be they might’ve needed to deal with us higher.”
Over time, former Nickelodeon stars have opened up about their journey as baby actors on the community — and never everybody had the identical expertise. Jennette McCurdy shocked her followers when she revealed that she wasn’t thrilled about her time on iCarly. “I did the exhibits that I used to be on from like 13 to […]
Created by Emma Schwartz and Mary Robertson, Quiet on Set was produced by Enterprise Insider and Maxine Productions with Sony Footage Tv. “I don’t personally maintain something towards anybody at ID or Max proper now, however I do maintain one thing towards Maxine, as a result of they knew what they had been doing,” Lee Bolleau mentioned of the manufacturing firm. “About it streaming on Max, it simply seems like, ‘How can we take advantage of cash and maintain this story circulating?’”
In accordance with Nikolas, Quiet on Set is the producers’ “model” of her expertise at Nickelodeon, not hers. “We’ve got to dwell with our tales and the way they had been handled by ID and Maxine eternally whereas they see it as leverage for future tasks,” she mentioned. “There’s nothing bingeable about trauma.”
Regardless of these claims from Nikolas and Lee Bolleau, administrators Schwartz and Robertson imagine that much more former baby stars from Nickelodeon will begin to come ahead following the discharge of the doc.
“One of many objectives of the sequence is to assist spark a broader dialog round these points. And I definitely know that there’s much more folks with much more tales on the market,” Schwartz solely advised Us Weekly in March earlier than the docuseries was launched. “And we might love to have the ability to maintain telling these tales if extra folks wish to converse and share.”
Quiet on Set additionally included interviews with Nickelodeon forged members Katrina Johnson, Giovonnie Samuels, Kyle Sullivan and Bryan Hearne.
