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Dan Schneider, the children’s television producer and writer behind many of Nickelodeon’s biggest hits, released a video on Tuesday in which he apologized for some of his behavior on the job, including soliciting massages on set. The video comes after the release of a documentary series in which former employees denounced him as a boss and objected to sexualized humor in his shows.

The four-episode series, “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” included interviews with numerous former employees on Schneider’s shows and former child actors who criticized the way he treated them or described the environment on the set as harmful.

Schneider declined to be interviewed for the series, which first aired Sunday and Monday. But it had the effect of drawing him out of relative obscurity to address the many complaints about the shows, and the treatment of the people who worked on them. Schneider has rarely been in the public eye since separating from Nickelodeon in 2018, after an investigation by ViacomCBS, the parent company of Nickelodeon, which found that many people he worked with viewed him as verbally abusive.

“Watching over the past two nights was very difficult, me facing my past behaviors, some of which are embarrassing and that I regret, and I definitely owe some people a pretty strong apology,” Schneider said in a nearly 20-minute video posted to his YouTube channel. His remarks were moderated by the actor known as BooG!E, who appeared in one of Schneider’s shows, “iCarly.”

In the documentary series, Jenny Kilgen, a former writer on “The Amanda Show,” Schneider’s early hit starring Amanda Bynes, said Schneider would make inappropriate and sexual jokes in the writers’ room, including asking her if she had a past doing phone sex, and would ask her to massage him.

“He would say things sometimes like, ‘Can you please give me a massage? I’ll put one of your sketches in the show,’” Kilgen said on the series. “And he would always present it like a joke, you know, and he would be laughing while he said it, but you always felt like disagreeing with Dan or standing up for yourself could result in you getting fired.”