10 Shocking Reveals from Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV

I've been waiting 17 years for today, welcome to M Mojo and today we're looking at the biggest bombshells of research discoveries. Four-part exposé on Nickelodeon. Everyone knew it from New York to California. So who would we go to? Who could we go to? Go complain about this Amanda Bines replaced Katrina Johnson. I have less and less time with Dan, so the new favorite has arrived. I was away from 1994 to 1997. Katrina Johnson was the youngest cast member of the hit Nickelodean comedy series. All of that during her time on the show, she was one of Dan Schneider's favorite young actors and, as he recalled in the docuseries, he even con

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red giving Johnson her own show, but as she grew older, her appearance became in a problem for producers, particularly her weight, who drew attention to I mean, stay with me, you can't be the fat one like I still hear those words in my head to this day with the addition of rising star Amanda Bindes in 1996 Johnson felt that her former mentor was progressively neglecting her. her and she left the show a year later.

Schneider would go on to be an important figure in shaping Bind's successful career, which some people, including her parents, found worrying, maybe at the time people saw it as a comedy, but I think now some people feel very uncomfortable. With the enforcement of gender discrimination and a toxic work environment in the late '90s, Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider created a spin-off series centered on Amanda Bindes for Christy Stratton and Jenny Kilgen, the only women in the room. writers of The Amanda Show. The job of my dreams. I had been in Los Angeles for 7 years, so I was very pleased to have someone pay me to write comedy.

However, there were warning signs from the beginning. Stratton and Kilan were forced to share a salary between them, which is not the case. exactly legal and together with other employees allegedly endured Schneider's misogynistic behavior, degrading jokes and harassment. I don't want to talk about it, I mean, it's not like I'm not proud of it and I'm also like Thinking about it now, yeah, it's like, oh boy, I just think about that poor girl and what she had to go through. Stratton was reportedly fired shortly before the end of season 1. Kilan resigned just days into season 2 and filed a lawsuit against the production. company for gender discrimination eventually settled out of court.

The ordeal had a lasting impact on her careers in the television industry. I knew this was the end of my career so I might as well stop and learn that it didn't stop that it was in vain to sexualize the female casts in the early 2020s, the people who revisited the shows Ian's nickel from his childhood noted that some of the content was undeniably strange and bordering on explicit, once I watched it again as an adult that was when that memory came back. I came back and thought oh oh oh oh that wasn't funny, it still isn't to me old episodes of Ariana Grande went viral showing her character Victorious and salmon cat Cat Valentine trying to squeeze a potato, among other suggestive acts, former employees too They noted that Schneider was instrumental in choosing revealing clothing for the young cast and writing adult jokes in the episodes, it was clear that there was a permissibility around these sexualized jokes with children, it was par for the course as if strange things They were entertaining Dan and that was just one of the things he thought was funny before shutting up Alexa Nicholas, a member of the Zoe 101 cast, had already expressed his discomfort working on the show, although he does not appear in the docuseries, they did reference to Janette mcc's 2022 Memoirs.

I'm glad my mom died. in which she details the Creator's verbal abuse and inappropriate interactions. He will call people idiots, buffoons, stupid, fools, careless, careless and spineless. The Creator knows how to make someone feel worthless. Inappropriate adult humor. I remember someone from Nickelodeon sitting with us and saying, Oh, this? I mean you know this dirty thing and Dan said no, why would you think he's tainted, like you've tainted something and they said the

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show is fine? It tends to have a few parenting jokes and references, but Dan Schneider comes off like that and The Amanda Show often crossed a line from character names with slang terms to costumes with phallic imagery.

To some people behind the scenes it was clear what the writers were referring to. Wait why is this on the show. Which is it? What's the joke? Here is exactly this. strange element as if everyone could do something quickly and get away with it and that's as part of the joke, team members and parents would notice questionable jokes and sexual innuendos, but the environment made it difficult to express these concerns, especially to Schneider and , as former cast members recall in the docu-series, were often uncomfortable with the material, even if they didn't know exactly what the insinuations meant.

I'm just looking back, it's very strange, frankly, it was just uncomfortable, traumatizing in the air. Nickelodean's on-air challenge segment was essentially Fear Factor for

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to challenge young actors to endure disgusting and scary challenges on camera. All That cast members Kyle Sullivan and Brian Christopher Hearn recounted moments from the show that made them and their castmates extremely uncomfortable. particularly traumatic and they were designed to be, the idea was that you would have to do something scary on camera and they got pretty scary. Hearn had a particularly horrible challenge: covering herself in peanut butter and lying down while several dogs licked her. of him on stage in the segment's video clip, he clearly says he doesn't like it.

I do not like this. I feel disgusting. Sullivan pointed out how devious it could be with challenges involving worms, dead fish and scorpions for young viewers. I would probably see this as funny, but for the actual participants it was whatever, but I think people just look at us and say you won some money, so what are you complaining about? Yes, we get our money, sure, but at what cost is SC racist? It stars black actors. My time at Nickelodeon played a big role in how I dealt and continue to deal with racial issues with shows like Keenan and Kell.

Nickelodeon always seemed to value and encourage diversity, but in the docuseries it all stars Giovanni Samuels and Brian Christopher. Hearn said that, compared to his white co-stars, they felt ignored. I understood the magnitude of being the token black girl, but I didn't realize how significant it was until years later. Hearn recalled a hurtful incident when a strange character demanded he wear a suit. and someone made an offensive joke about what skin tone I should be, but fearing the repercussions, didn't say anything, whoever was doing my makeup at the time was like a hand on my shoulder like everything was fine, like you didn't care. that he only said that Samuels and Hearn also occasionally had to play with racial stereotypes.

Hearn's mother, Tracy, spoke out about a sketch she con

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red racist in which her son pretended to sell cookies but she believed it looked like he was actually selling illegal substances. Jason Handy The accusations as a production assistant at Nickelodeon show all that and The Amanda Show Jason Handy was a familiar face to the young actors and their parents who spoke in the docu-series. MJ details how her daughter Brandy got a supporting role in an episode and started corresponding with Handy via email. She let me read it and it was a very innocent email, she just talked about the shows she had been working on, but what he thought was seemingly harmless progressed to him sending her an explicit photo and while MJ didn't go to the police herself.

Handy was eventually arrested in April 2003 and charged with multiple felonies involving inappropriate acts and materials. Keep your trust in God and don't forget me. You and all the kids are the reason I work for free half the week. I love you Jason, he begged no. contest and received a six-year sentence, surprisingly, he was not the only convicted predator employed by Nickelodeon, registered sex offender, Ezel Channel, another Nickelodeon employee was arrested in 2005. When you look at having several child predators who worked at Nickelodeon, some confusing questions arise about who to hold responsible for brian pe's connection to john wayne gasy hello, not only am I pickle boy, but I'm also a trained professional working here on the set of everything that can be seen through some looking headphones very important as Jason, practical Brian peek was well known on Nickelodeon, although the acting and dialogue coach was much more involved and even appeared on screen on occasion.

Kyle Sullivan recalled a meeting he attended at PC's house where he found a strange portrait of a clown. Brian got very excited when I asked him. about it, he turned the thing around and on the back he said to Brian I hope you enjoy the painting. Best wishes to your gasy friend John Wayne. He learned that the man had a disturbing pen pal relationship with John Wayne Gasy. A serial killer victim he targeted. Young people, even at his age, Sullivan knew this was strange, however, he alleged that other guests, including adults and parents, also saw Gasy's collection of letters and PC art on his nightstand next to his bed. and he took it out and started showing them to me.

Your instinct is to give someone the benefit of the doubt if you've known them that long, even in the face of a sign as bad as Drake Bell was John Doe. Have you ever told your story publicly before? I have never told my story. publicly silent on the set focused its third episode on Drake Bell former star of The Amanda Show and Drake and Josh for the first time the musician actor detailed the alleged abuse he suffered at the hands of Brian Pek when he was a young actor, you know, in any moment I would have done it.

At an audition or any time I needed to work on dialogue or anything, somehow I ended up back at Brian's house and things just got worse and worse and worse, the acting and dialogue coach became a constant presence managing to turn Bell and the others against her father, who was her manager Peck was arrested a few months after Jason Handy in 2003 due to his age at the time, Belle's name was kept hidden and he was referred to as John Doe, something very few people knew until now, unfortunately there was no therapy and he was left alone.

Devices that at that age are probably not the best. Famous supporters. Drake Bell was present on the day of Brian PE's sentencing in October 2004, although he was relieved that his tormentor was finally caught. Bell was surprised to see the amount of support he received. received from notable people in the industry, their entire side of the courtroom was packed, there were definitely some recognizable faces on that side of the room, including Pain cast members Alan Thick and Joanna Karns, team members from The Amanda Show, Rich and Beth Carell, along with actors James Marsden and Taran Kilum in 2024 Boy Meets World Stars Will Fidell and Ryder Strong claimed their letters were based on misinformation.

You know he had us. Ryder and I wrote letters of support to the judge and these are things we did over and over again. We did them because they lied to us later, they didn't tell us the whole story, but that doesn't change the fact that we did it. He then worked in Hollywood, including briefly at Disney Channels. The sweet life of Zach and Cody. There are not enough protections to keep even convicted sexual predators off children's television shows. Did you see anything calm? Let us know in the comments below. a house of horrors is no joke a house