Dan Schneider Sues ‘Quiet on Set’ for Falsely Painting Him as Child Sex Abuser

Dan Schneider is applying producers of ‘Quiet on Set’ to court docket — saying they defamed him by falsely portraying him as a kid sexual abuser at Nickelodeon, and ruining his track record.

The famed Television producer just submitted a defamation lawsuit, acquired by TMZ, slamming the docuseries and its creators — like Warner Bros. Discovery, Maxine Productions, Sony Photographs Television and other folks — for falsely implying he sexually abused the tiny one particular actors who labored on his demonstrates back once again in the functioning day.

Dan’s lawyers do not mince text … blasting “Peaceful On Established: The Dark Side Of Young young children Tv set” as a “strike job.” As you know, Dan developed “The Amanda Show,” “Drake & Josh,” “Zoey 101,” “iCarly” and “Victorious” in the course of his tenure at Nickelodeon … and in ‘QOS,’ he was the key aim.

Dan’s lawsuit alleges the docuseries utilized manipulative enhancing approaches to create a untrue perception of Schneider. The accommodate statements the defendants attempted to lump Schneider into the similar bucket as two other convicted tiny one particular sexual intercourse offenders who worked on some of the Nickelodeon shows. He says the defendants did it all for “clickbait, rankings, and sights — or basically just location, funds.”

As his legal experts place it, “Schneider had no knowledge of their abuse, was not complicit in the abuse, condemned the abuse when it was identified and, critically, was not a kid sexual abuser himself.”

Dan goes on to assert ‘QOS’ applied misleading statements and editing procedures in the trailer and numerous episodes to falsely create the impression he was a pedophile. For occasion, the lawyer components to the trailer, exactly where his boost and accomplishment at Nickelodeon was tied to — what the sequence described as — “just one particular of the darkest chapters.”

The trailer then reduced to a “Precise Criminal offense Occasion” graphic … falsely implying the producer had committed a crime versus tiny young children. The accommodate statements producers intentionally ignored people today who would undercut their narrative.

Schneider does, even so, concede in the lawsuit he was blind to some of his adverse conduct towards colleagues, subordinates and cast consumers … but insists this sort of habits was not in any way connected to child intercourse abuse.

He tells TMZ … “Not also lengthy ago the docuseries Tranquil on Established highlighted blunders I manufactured and negative judgment I exhibited in the course of my time at Nickelodeon, most of which transpired a lengthy time ago all by way of my early profession as a producer, operating on exhibits for Tollin/Robbins Productions. There is no query that I was sometimes a lousy chief. I am sincerely apologetic and regretful for that behavior, and I will continue to pick accountability for it.”

Even now, he says he skilled no solution but to take lawful motion … stating the docuseries is an attempt to mislead viewers for ratings.

He offers … “They went more than and above reporting the actual truth and falsely implied that I was linked in or facilitated horrific crimes for which accurate youngster predators have been prosecuted and convicted. I have no objection to everybody highlighting my failures as a manager, but it is incorrect to mislead tens of millions of males and girls to the false summary that I was in any way linked in heinous acts like folks completely commited by kid predators.”