Drake Bell claims no one on Nickelodeon gets…
Drake Bell feels cheated, and he’s not thrilled about it.
The “Drake & Josh” alum, 39, not too long ago claimed that “no one” on Nickelodeon receives residuals for their time on the favored kids’s community. He also slammed the idea that everybody on TV is wealthy.
“That’s the perception of the world, it’s always been this way,” Bell stated during an episode of “The Unplanned Podcast” on July 2. “It’s like, you know, ‘Oh, you made a Folgers Coffee commercial. You must live in a mansion in Hollywood. Like, I saw you on TV. You’re rich.’”
Drake Bell during “The Unplanned Podcast” on July 2. The Unplanned Podcast/YouTube
Drake Bell and Josh Peck in Nickelodeon’s “Drake & Josh.” Nickelodeon
“That’s far from the case,” he defined. “And especially, which is the bummer for most of us on Nickelodeon, we don’t get residuals for our shows.”
Bell, who made his Nickelodeon debut on “The Amanda Show” with Amanda Bynes in 1999 before co-starring on “Drake & Josh” with Josh Peck from 2004 to 2007, revealed that virtually everybody on the community only receives a one-time fee for their work.
He then in contrast Nickelodeon’s “flawed” system to reveals like “Seinfeld” and “Friends,” and famous how the casts of those sitcoms still earn thousands and thousands of {dollars} from syndication residuals.
Amanda Bynes and Drake Bell on Nickelodeon’s “The Amanda Show.” Nickelodeon
“You want to get into syndication,” Bell instructed podcast hosts Abby and Matt Howard. “You want to get to 100 episodes so that you can get to syndication, and then you want to get into syndication because then you get your residual money, that’s where you make your money.”
“For example, the ‘Friends’ cast at the peak was making a million dollars an episode,” he continued. “You make 13 episodes that 12 months, you make $13 million. You make 20 episodes that 12 months, you make $20 million, proper?
“But right now, each cast member of ‘Friends,’ just in syndication alone, is making over $20 million a year, and they’re not filming a show every week,” Bell added. “They’re not going to work, but they’re playing their show and they’re using their likeness and they’re doing all this, so they get paid for it.”
Drake Bell during Abby and Matt Howard’s “The Unplanned Podcast” on July 2. The Unplanned Podcast/YouTube
When Matt requested whether or not Nickelodeon stars didn’t obtain residuals because they have been baby actors, Bell claimed it was because the community was run by “a lot of evil, corrupt people.”
“That’s the only thing, that is the answer,” he stated. “There’s no other answer.”
Meanwhile, Bell lamented how he still doesn’t obtain residuals despite seeing “Drake & Josh” replays and marathons on TV and fashionable streaming companies.
Amanda Bynes, Drake Bell and Josh Peck during Nickelodeon’s seventeenth Annual Kids’ Choice Awards in 2004. WireImage
“Do everything that they do to us mentally and emotionally, and then throw us to the wolves,” he stated. “And we’re like, okay, cool. I got rent this month.”
“There are three channels doing ‘Drake & Josh’ marathons. Netflix just bought it, it’s top 10 on Netflix, and I gotta figure out how to pay my rent this month,” the actor continued. “And some fat cat with a cigar is just sitting up at the top of Viacom, just going. What do you call it? It’s just like getting high on child labor.”
Bell, who filed for chapter back in 2014, ended the podcast section by saying that people outdoors of the leisure industry “don’t understand how the business works.”
Bell filed for chapter back in 2014. Drake Bell/Instagram
“They just see what the perception is on Instagram and social media and all the glitz and the glamour of Hollywood,” he stated. “We’re putting in all of this work. This corporation is making billions with a ‘B’ off of us, and we’re being compensated for the week of work, cool, but that’s it.”
“And forever, in perpetuity,” Bell concluded. “It literally says in the contract, across universes and galaxies and planets.”
The Post has reached out to Bell’s rep and Nickelodeon for remark.
Drake Bell on the July 2 episode of “The Unplanned Podcast.” The Unplanned Podcast/YouTube
This wouldn’t be the first time the “Drake & Josh” alum slammed Nickelodeon and the “flawed” system the community had in place to defend baby stars.
Last 12 months, Bell slammed Nickelodeon’s “pretty empty” apology after the “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” docuseries uncovered the poisonous behind-the-scenes world of kids’s TV reveals.
Bell also revealed in the bombshell docuseries that he had been inappropriately assaulted by performing coach Brian Peck, and alleged that the stunning abuse is what began him down his self-destructive highway.
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