More and more evidence just keeps coming out proving what a weird environment Nickelodeon was for the kids working there back in the ’90s and early 2000s… As we’ve been following with the release of docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids’ TV, Nickelodeon was home to some extremely problematic staffers — like dialogue coach Brian Peck, who Drake & Josh alum Drake Bell says sexually abused him as a teenager.
He was convicted of just that two decades ago, though no one knew who the victim was. Beyond Peck, network exec Dan Schneider has been a hot topic of conversation for YEARS.
There have been some GROSS allegations against Schneider. Zoey 101’s Alexa Nikolas claimed on a podcast back in 2022 that the showrunner sat in on her costume fittings — when she was 12.
She also pointed out how he constantly took photos of child actors’ feet, something we guess seemed silly to them back then. Jeanette McCurdy wrote about the “Creator” coming to her costume fittings as well as encouraging her to drink.
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