As the heat continues to rise over Nickelodeon’s use of pedophile Brian Peck as a frequent actor on kids’ show, longtime producer Dan Schneider makes a teary appearance, denying he played a role in Peck’s acting career or his continued work. This comes even as it’s becoming clear that many kids who started out in show business on Nickelodeon, retain a degree of outright hostility toward Schneider. Here’s more from Jamie Dlux.
For the first time, Drake Bell is now revealing the truth about how he was subjected to pedophilic abuse as a young boy in Hollywood. His story serves as the basis for much of the four-part documentary Quiet On Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV. The doc will air over two nights — beginning Sunday and Monday — on the Investigation Discovery Channel.
Here, Jamie Dlux gives us a sneak preview, focusing less so on the victim, and more so on the alleged perpetrator — Brian Peck. Peck worked on several kids’ TV shows over the years, including Growing Pains, Boy Meets World and the Suite Life of Zack & Cody. He came into contact with Drake Bell on The Amanda Show, where Peck served as a dialogue coach.
Peck, by the year 2003, was facing 11 different charges filed by the Los Angeles Police Department, involving his abuse of Bell. In 2004, Peck was jailed after pleading no contest to a charge of oral copulation with a minor under 16 as well as a charge of performing a lewd act with a 14- or 15-year-old. Peck spent a little over a year in prison and remains registered as a sex offender.
In addition to Peck, Jamie Dlux takes a look at Leonardo DiCaprio, who had appeared opposite Peck on Growing Pains. Also figuring into this hornet’s next: Dan Schneider, the Nickelodeon producer and creator behind The Amanda Show, as well as such later hits as All That, iCarly, Victorious and Drake & Josh.
Amanda Bynes starred in one of the most popular children’s TV shows aired on Nickelodeon. But for the duration of the show’s run, she suffered horrific abuse and rapes, much of it allegedly perpetrated by the man Nickelodeon had hired to produce and write the show — Dan Schneider.
Here, Red Pill 78 talks about Bynes’ tragic life. We learn how she continues to suffers great psychological damage. We also see how those who supposedly abused her — from Nickelodeon to Dan Schneider — keep operating as if nothing at all happened and certainly nothing for which they bear any responsibility.
Rumors have swirled around Dan Schneider as a serial child rapist. This is especially the case since Jeanette McCurdy, who played Sam on ICarly, released her autobiographical memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died, containing sexual allegations against an unnamed “Creator” at the Nickelodeon show.
The Los Angeles Times also ran an article last summer that discussed sexualized scenes in Schneider’s scripts. It was said he asked for massages on Nickelodeon shows.
Watch here as he attempts to hug Miranda Cosgrove, the star of ICarly, on her 18th birthday. The show members share a group hug and Schenider insinuates himself.
