“Dan Schneider was extremely important to Amanda Byne’s career”
Updated 11.34 | Published 2024-03-19 16.56
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TV producer Dan Schneider took a hot tub with 16-year-old Amanda Bynes in a sketch he wrote himself.
After the documentary “Quiet on set: The dark side of kids TV”, the TV personality has received massive criticism, The Mirror reports, among others.
The TV producer and screenwriter Dan Cuttingr, 58, has received massive criticism following the documentary “Quiet on set: The dark side of kids TV.”
In it, several child stars talk regarding abuse they experienced on television sets – and specifically the children’s channel Nickelodeon, where Schneider worked for many years.
The documentary raises accusations once morest both the production and Schneider regarding both racism and the sexualization of children, something that several media outlets have also reported on.
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full screenDan Schneider in the pool with Amanda Bynes. Photo: Youtube
Made sketch with underage actor in bikini
The latest criticism concerns a video clip from the program “The Amanda show”, where Schneider himself sits in a hot tub with the show’s main character, the actor Amanda Byneswho is 37 today.
At the time she was 16 and wearing a bikini. Her co-star Schneider, who also wrote the sketch, was over 20 years older.
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full screenAmanda Bynes in 2000. Photo: Tsuni / Usa / Alamy
Karyn Finley Thompsonwho also worked on the production of “The Amanda Show,” has said that Bynes and Schneider were very close.
– There were several times that I saw Amanda sitting behind him, either when she gave him a hug or a neck massage. They had a very close relationship and I never thought anything of it. But the hot tub sketch I always thought was strange, Thompson has said according to The Mirror.
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full screen Amanda Bynes 2009. Photo: Peter Kramer / AP
“Think she trusted him”
Also the cultural writer Scaachi Koul reacted to Bynes and Schneider’s close relationship.
– Dan Schneider was very important to Amanda Byne’s career during this time and they were very close, I think she trusted him, she says in the documentary.
Another who raised criticism once morest Dan Schneider and Nickelodeon is Bryan Hearne, 35. In the early 2000s, he was part of the comedy show “All that”. In the documentary, he testifies to racism and has also likened the job on the children’s channel to a torture chamber.
Dan Schneider has denied all allegations following the documentary.
”Quiet on set: The dark side of kids TV” visas på Discovery plus.
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full screenAmanda Bynes 2020. Photo: Stella Pictures/Ddp/Planet Photos