‘Quiet On Set’ Filmmakers Discuss Response To Docuseries, Upcoming Episode 5 & “Continuing To Explore” Toxic Kids TV
deadline.comThis post contains details from the first four episodes of ID’s documentary series Quiet On Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV. A little over a year and a half ago, producers Mary Robertson and Emma Schwartz began to have some questions about kids television.
More specifically, about the heyday of Nickelodeon. “Emma and I had noticed…compilations of clips that were made on sets that Dan Schneider presided over, and these compilations were making their way around social media.
They included clips of material that is arguably sexual in nature,” Robertson told Deadline. “If this arguably sexual content was being created on sets featuring child actors, for children to absorb, what else was possibly happening?
What could this portend or signal about what was really happening behind the scenes?” Eventually, those questions would evolve into something much more as the two women took a deep dive into what they have now dubbed “the dark side of kids TV.” The result is ID’s documentary series Quiet on Set, in which the filmmakers speak with many former child actors of the 1990s and early 2000s who allege experiences of abuse, sexism and racism on set.
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