All That stars blast Dan Schneider's apology video in new Quiet on Set episode: He 'gave us a nice performance'

After the third and fourth episodes of Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV aired on Investigation Discovery, former Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider posted a response video online — and some All That cast members aren’t impressed with his words.

In the latest episode of Quiet on Set, Giovonnie Samuels and Bryan Hearne expressed their dissatisfaction with the response from Schneider, who was a producer on All That during their time on the sketch show. “The thing about his interview as a whole is, I thought it was funny. If I could be candid, Dan was an actor before all of this,” Hearne said, referring to Schneider’s early career as a supporting actor on shows like Head of the Class and Home Free. “And so I think that he brushed off some chops and gave us a nice performance.”

Reps for Schneider did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.

In his video, Schneider apologized for making young performers uncomfortable on the Fear Factor-style show On-Air Dares. “I'm so sorry to any kid who ever had to do a dare or anything that they didn't want to do or weren't comfortable doing,” he said. We went out of our way to make sure they were safe and that everything was done properly, but if a kid was scared and didn't want to do it, the kid shouldn't have had to do it, period, the end. And if I had known at the time, I would have changed it on the spot.”

Elsewhere in his video, Schneider continued to apologize. “There's definitely things that I would do differently,” he said. “The main thing that I would change is how I treat people and everyone. I definitely at times didn't give people the best of me. I didn't show enough patience, I could be cocky and definitely overambitious and sometimes just straight up rude and obnoxious and I am so sorry that I ever was. When I watched the show I could see the hurt in some people's eyes and it made me feel awful and regretful and sorry. I wish I could go back, you know especially to those earlier years of my career and bring the growth and the experience that I have now and just do a better job and never ever feel like it was okay to be an asshole to anyone, ever.”

“Where was all of this apologizing when Jennette McCurdy’s book came out?” Hearne said in Quiet on Set, in reference to the iCarly actress discussing the pain she felt as a child actor in her recent memoir.

“Or when Angelique Bates had said something very publicly?” Samuels added, referencing another All That cast member who alleged she was “physically, mentally, emotionally abused” during the show in a 2016 video.

Hearne went on to question the validity of Schneider’s apology. “I just feel that, what’s an apology without accountability?” he asked. “Realistically, if you take the inappropriate jokes away, do you have a show anymore? Take all the foot jokes, take all the face shots, all of that inappropriate-ness, is it just commercials then?”

Hearne and Samuels also reacted to Schneider’s assurances that he values diversity. In his video, Schneider said, “Diversity has always been very important to me in my shows. If you go back to the very first Nickelodeon show I ever made, that’s very evident, as it is in the second one, and then the first movie I ever made for Nickelodeon, which starred Kenan [Thompson] and Kel [Mitchell], and every show I did after that had a lead Black actor in it.”

The former All That cast members previously detailed that they felt “overlooked” as the only two Black cast members during their time on the show, and felt that Schneider’s response did little to convince them otherwise. “My gripe with the way that question is answered is that the question itself was posed to him about us. It was about us,” Hearne stated. “He said, ‘Oh, I jumpstarted the careers of Kenan and Kel.’ So they talked about us being overlooked, and then he overlooked us in his answer. What do you do with that?”

“It was very evident from the first day: it was just the two of us,” Samuels said. “That’s usually the first thing you do in a Black space or as a Black person or a person of color: you count who’s in the room, in front and behind the camera. And there were two.”

Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV is streaming on Max.

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