Nickelodeon cuts ties with iCarly, Victorious creator Dan Schneider

By Katie Rife | March 27, 2018 | 2:08pm

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At first, it seems like a pretty mundane story, of interest only to those specialized few who follow the business of children’s television: Yesterday Nickelodeon announced that it was parting ways with Dan Schneider, one of its most prominent creators who had been working with the network for 25 years. “Since several [Schneider’s production company] Schneider’s Bakery projects are wrapping up, both sides agreed that this is a natural time for Nickelodeon and Schneider’s Bakery to pursue other opportunities and projects,” the network said in an official statement.

But, as Deadline notes in its original report on Schneider’s ouster from the network, there may be another element to this story that, thus far, remains in the realm of rumor. “Among other things, I hear there had been multiple complaints of abusive behavior against Schneider filed by members of his staff,” reporter Nellie Andreeva says in her Deadline story. It’s not clear if the alleged complaints are linked to, as Andreeva puts it, Schneider’s “well-documented” tendency to lose his temper on set, or to what she calls “suspicion” surrounding “treatment of some of the younger stars on his shows.”