Former Disney Channel directors Beth and Rich Correll have apologized for sending letters of support to Brian Peck, a former Nickelodeon dialogue coach who received sexual abuse allegations from Drake & Josh star Drake Bell.
“We extend our deepest apologies to Drake Bell and his family, and we deeply regret our decision many years ago to request leniency for someone who we later learned had committed a horrible crime and caused so much pain and trauma to Drake and others,” wrote the Corrells in a statement to Variety.
In Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV...
“We extend our deepest apologies to Drake Bell and his family, and we deeply regret our decision many years ago to request leniency for someone who we later learned had committed a horrible crime and caused so much pain and trauma to Drake and others,” wrote the Corrells in a statement to Variety.
In Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV...
- 3/26/2024
- by Kalia Richardson
- Rollingstone.com
‘Quiet on Set’ to Launch Fifth Episode ‘Breaking the Silence’ With New Drake Bell Interview and More
A surprise fifth episode of docuseries “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” titled “Breaking the Silence,” will launch April 7 on Investigation Discovery (ID) and then stream on Max.
This new episode of the unscripted series detailing the alleged on-set treatment of child actors, primarily at prolific children’s TV producer Dan Schneider’s Nickelodeon shows in the ’90s and early ’00s, will feature earlier subjects, including “The Amanda Show” and “Drake & Josh” star Drake Bell, “All That” cast members Giovonnie Samuels and Bryan Hearne, Hearne’s mother, Tracey Brown, as well as new interviewee “All That” cast member Shane Lyons, who be interviewed by journalist Soledad O’Brien “for an important discussion about the industry, then and now.”
Episode 5 will be “building off the revelations explored in the first four episodes” and include a conversation led by O’Brien on “where the industry can go from here.
This new episode of the unscripted series detailing the alleged on-set treatment of child actors, primarily at prolific children’s TV producer Dan Schneider’s Nickelodeon shows in the ’90s and early ’00s, will feature earlier subjects, including “The Amanda Show” and “Drake & Josh” star Drake Bell, “All That” cast members Giovonnie Samuels and Bryan Hearne, Hearne’s mother, Tracey Brown, as well as new interviewee “All That” cast member Shane Lyons, who be interviewed by journalist Soledad O’Brien “for an important discussion about the industry, then and now.”
Episode 5 will be “building off the revelations explored in the first four episodes” and include a conversation led by O’Brien on “where the industry can go from here.
- 3/26/2024
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
Investigation Discovery’s documentary series Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV looks into the unsettling claims made against Brian Peck, the former dialogue coach for Nickelodeon. The four-part series includes interviews with former cast and crew members who talk about the alleged abusive and toxic behavior that went on behind the scenes of their popular shows.
Among them is Drake Bell, star of Drake & Josh, who claims he was molested by Peck several times as a child. The documentary also revealed that Nickelodeon directors Beth and Rich Correll supported Peck in his legal battle against Bell.
Drake Bell on Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV
However, in a recent statement to Variety, they offered an apology, stating that “no words” could adequately describe how terrible “we feel” for Bell’s trauma and for being on the “wrong side of a horrific situation”.
Beth and...
Among them is Drake Bell, star of Drake & Josh, who claims he was molested by Peck several times as a child. The documentary also revealed that Nickelodeon directors Beth and Rich Correll supported Peck in his legal battle against Bell.
Drake Bell on Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV
However, in a recent statement to Variety, they offered an apology, stating that “no words” could adequately describe how terrible “we feel” for Bell’s trauma and for being on the “wrong side of a horrific situation”.
Beth and...
- 3/26/2024
- by Siddhika Prajapati
- FandomWire
Directors Beth and Rich Correll, whose letters defending Brian Peck in his court case against Drake Bell were made public in the recent “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” documentary, are apologizing.
“We extend our deepest apologies to Drake Bell and his family, and we deeply regret our decision many years ago to request leniency for someone who we later learned had committed a horrible crime and caused so much pain and trauma to Drake and others. If we had known the truth at the time the letters were written, we never would have written them,” the Corrells said in an exclusive statement to Variety. “There are no words to express how awful we feel for being on the wrong side of a horrific situation and the trauma it caused you, Drake. We are devastated that we unwittingly supported the unsupportable.”
Their statement continues, “Our biggest priority...
“We extend our deepest apologies to Drake Bell and his family, and we deeply regret our decision many years ago to request leniency for someone who we later learned had committed a horrible crime and caused so much pain and trauma to Drake and others. If we had known the truth at the time the letters were written, we never would have written them,” the Corrells said in an exclusive statement to Variety. “There are no words to express how awful we feel for being on the wrong side of a horrific situation and the trauma it caused you, Drake. We are devastated that we unwittingly supported the unsupportable.”
Their statement continues, “Our biggest priority...
- 3/26/2024
- by Emily Longeretta
- Variety Film + TV
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