Marc Summers shut down his Quiet On Set interview, is pissed he’s still in the doc

Marc Summers is not happy about being part of Investigation Discovery’s recent “here’s all the bad stuff that happened behind the scenes of the Nickelodeon shows you grew up on” docuseries Quiet On Set. Summers is one of the first people you see in the doc, talking positively and genuinely about his time on the network, where his game show Double Dare was an early hit. (And which, to be clear, isn’t touched on by the rest of the series, which concerns events that happened well after Summers had moved on from the network.) But, Summers says, he wasn’t told what kind of project Quiet On Set was going in—and says he was “ambushed” by producers who later took back promises not to include him in the series after he shut down his interview.

Per Variety, Summers can be heard venting about the “bait and switch” tactics of the series’ producers in a sneak peek of an interview he gave to Elvis Duran & The Morning Show. Summers says he was simply told Quiet On Set was a documentary about Nickelodeon, and proceeded thusly before producers asked him to watch a video of sexually suggestive material from the network (mostly culled from shows produced by Dan Schneider, who’s at the heart of many of the series’ allegations). Summers, realizing he wasn’t signed on for the project he thought he was, reportedly told producers, “Well, let’s stop the tape right here. What are we doing?”

Summers says producers told him initially that he wouldn’t be in Quiet On Set at all, and later that it would be only in a limited capacity. He seems decidedly unhappy that the moments of his reaction to the footage, where he asks, with obvious shock, “Did that air on Nickelodeon?” were included in the final product.