4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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While Nickelodeon has been a staple in family television for decades, peaking in the late 90s and 2000s, the new documentary series "Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV" recently exposed the abusive working conditions women and children experienced while working for the network. Kate Taylor, senior correspondent at Business Insider, discusses her reporting featured in the documentary.
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0:00.0 | It's the Brian and Larrow Show on WNYC. |
0:13.6 | Good morning again everyone. |
0:15.4 | So if you were a kid in the 90s or the early 2000s |
0:18.8 | or raised kids during those decades, |
0:21.2 | you're probably familiar with Nickelodeon. The television network, of course, ran numerous |
0:26.0 | hit shows, including all that, the Amanda show, Drake and Josh, and I Carly, just to name a few, |
0:32.0 | and the popularity of those shows catapulted their child |
0:35.1 | stars to ultimate levels of fame. |
0:38.5 | Now decades later, those kids have grown up, and they're telling their stories about abusive conditions |
0:44.9 | that they faced as child actors. |
0:47.5 | The explosive documentary series Quiet On Set, the Dark Side of Children's television, chronicles the exploitative working conditions |
0:56.0 | that women and children experienced while working on Nickelodeon's greatest hits, at least |
1:02.3 | that's what they allege. |
1:03.8 | Much of the series centers on Dan Schneider, |
1:06.4 | the executive producer and screenwriter, |
1:08.8 | who created hits at the expense of the children |
1:11.7 | he employed. |
1:12.8 | The documentary says, here's 45 seconds. |
1:18.1 | In the early 90s, Nickelodeon was kid everything, |
1:21.9 | and you better hope that your house had cable. |
1:24.3 | Wasn't there to educate you we were there to have fun to get sludge to be entertained. |
1:29.2 | And this is when Dan Schneider arrives, |
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