QUIET ON SET: THE DARK SIDE OF KIDS TV pulls back the curtain on an empire, built by creator Dan Schneider, that had an undeniable grip on popular culture. Over its four-parts, the docuseries offers unprecedented access to key cast members, writers, and crew spanning Schneider’s popular series at Nickelodeon and spotlighted their emotional accounts; chronicling a pattern of gross, abusive, and manipulative behavior that unfolded across decades, as well as stories about child predators on set. QUIET ON SET additionally features former Nickelodeon star Drake Bell, sharing publicly, for the first time ever, the abuse he suffered at the hands of Brian Peck, his former dialogue coach who was convicted in 2004 for his crimes against Drake and ordered to register as a sex offender.

“Quiet on Set” ignited a viral online response and is helping to catalyze a collective reckoning with the dark underbelly of children’s entertainment. To date, “Quiet on Set” has been watched by more than 20 million people across cable network ID and streamers Max and Discovery+ and became Max’s biggest streaming title ever reported in Nielsen’s Top 10 charts with 1.3 billion minutes watched.

"Quiet on Set" won the Television Critics Award for "Outstanding Achievement in News and Information.” The project also received an ACE Eddie Award nomination for ‘Best Edited Documentary Series’ and two Creative Arts Emmy Award nominations for “Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Series” and “Outstanding Picture Editing For A Nonfiction Program.”

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“A heartbreaking expose” - The Chicago Sun

“One of the year’s most explosive investigative documentaries….raw and harrowing.” - Salon

“Full of bombshells” - Los Angeles Times

“Rage-inducing expose” - The Guardian

“The series brings the damning allegations against Schneider into sharp relief, skewering Nickelodeon’s entire kids TV apparatus that blinded itself to the abuse adult employees and young stars, such as Drake Bell, reportedly faced.” - Vulture

“The #MeToo era sparked by the Harvey Weinstein scandal that broke in 2017 exposed a toxic culture of abuse that had long gone unchecked in Hollywood. But it’s taken Robertson and Schwartz blowing the dust off an open secret in the kids TV industry — allegations of abuse, sexism, racism and inappropriate behavior that long swirled around Schneider-led sets — to bring to light claims of inappropriate behavior involving underage stars and crew members on Nickelodeon kids series.” - The Hollywood Reporter

“ The exposé of the toxic workplace culture that workers say Schneider cultivated illustrates how much society in the ’90s and aughts—and even today—has refused to look at entertainment-industry child mistreatment and abuse head-on. Finally, nearly seven years after the #MeToo movement exploded, it should be impossible to ignore what has been hiding in plain sight all along—including sometimes on television itself.” - Slate

“it casts the entire children’s-TV landscape as a minefield for parents and kids, who in order to keep their names in the credits are compelled to endure a wide range of improprieties, some of which beget permanent scars. As such, it resonates as a continuation of a tale as old as Hollywood itself, and yet another warning to moms and dads that they should think twice before agreeing to help their juvenile offspring chase A-list glory.” - The Daily Beast

“it wisely contextualizes [Bell’s nightmare] as a symptom of a larger problem within the industry, which habitually treats kids as commodities, scares them into accepting all sorts of indignities lest they jeopardize their highly coveted jobs (and lifelong spotlight aspirations), and doesn’t protect them from adult conduct that ranges from inapt to detrimental to wildly over the line.” - The Daily Beast

Executive Producer and Co-Director