To urge you to complain about Sam and Cat on CBBC?

👏 spot on!

I think it's well established the BBC do not care about sheltering child abusers, making money from child abusers, child exploitation and child grooming. They have a paedophile's statue outside their HQ. They are the home of Savile. They have given voice, employment and shelter to a whole range of abusive paedophiliac men. They make documentaries telling children there are 59 genders and if you're a girl who likes trousers you should think about taking hormones and cutting off your tits.

This is not even the 1000th most paedophile enabling thing the BBC will have done this year.

I deal with it by not giving them any money.

It's Jennette McCurdy. If you're going to take a stand then please spell her name correctly.

Babe-raham Lincoln still raises a laugh in the FKAT household. Both AG and JM are so talented - brilliant comedy actors.

Ths is a nonsense comment

Is abuse happening now on this programme development or has the programme stopped being made?

If the programme is no longer being made and these programmes are from years ago, what use is it to stop watching or boycott it?

If the programme was still being made and its own actors were being exploirted and treated badly and abused and crimes were being committed well thats a different matter.

By listening to Michael Jackson, is that showing support for child abuse?
Same question about Led Zepplin and Bowie? Iggy Pop?

Loved watching Sam and Cat when my daughter was younger. Ariana Grande fabulous in it, long before she became really famous.
Cat's beloved Nonna Lived in 'Elderly Acres' - a name we still use (affectionately) for any old people's home.

Well, they should be because that's how IP laws work.

The vast majority of the world objects to child abuse, that's not controversial.

What is controversial is calling for a load of people to make complaints to get this taken off air, when the actual victims haven't asked for this, and you haven't even backed up your own stance by cancelling your licence. Its all a bit performative imo.

Everyone objects to child abuse. That is why we are trying to get laws implemented to prevent it, perpetrators punished and schools and workplaces safeguarded. Rather than focusing on 15 year old TV shows that at this stage, can't harm anyone.

Well it don’t seem to have done Ariana any harm.

I would agree with taking a stand if the victims were asking us to take a stand.

They aren't though.

You say you want to make it clear that none of it is publicly acceptable, but then you're picking one programme out of thousands to be outraged by.

Have you cancelled your TV licence and told them why?

The staff and culture at Nickelodeon at the time were abusive and exploitative. Some are in prison, some should be. It's clear that both Jeanette McMurdy and Ariana Grande and many other young actors have been negatively impacted for life by their treatment on Nickelodeon productions.

Sam and Cat is a funny show, fond memories of watching it with my kids when they were younger. There are a couple of weird moments in it that could be interpreted in a dog whistle way but otherwise it is very wholesome. Why should the production team and actors have their work banned and their royalties cut off because of their unwitting and unwilling association with Schneider? How will it help?

I hope you're writing to the BBC to ban music by the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin while you're at it. I just saw that Bow Wow Wow are touring - should they be banned because Annabel Lead Singer (can't remember name sorry) was 14 and naked on their album cover in the 80s?

You expect the BBC to give a shit about the welfare of children?

Where have you been for the last few decades.

Anyway if you complain about this then you'll be spending the rest of your life complaining. Have a quick look at the BBC films and let me know if you see one without a problematic history.

As pp said the actors involved haven't called for it to be taken off air, probably because they get paid still, so why take it upon yourself to start a boycott on behalf of victims who don't want it?

YANBU OP and thank you for posting. My DD is way past CBBC age now but she did used to watch some of this guys other shows, I think the ones Sam and Cat first started in? I strongly discouraged at the time as after seeing a bits of episodes it was pretty obvious there was a creep on the show somewhere. Specifically a creep with a foot fetish.

I’ve also read Jeanette’s autobiography and it makes for very sad reading.

Have the actors called for its removal? Not all of them are making Grande's money these days, maybe they are happy it's still shown and they continue getting paid.

If you're going to boycot every programme and film and song and piece of art that has illegal and problematic behaviour associated with its making then you never look at anything again.

Why this particular show?

Surely it's better that the victims are still getting money from residuals rather than having a horrible experience?

It has Ariana Grande in it, the beeb won't be remotely interested in removing it - it will likely be a reliable show for viewing figures because of her. TV channels are focused on and measured by viewing figures - they'll churn out any dross if it pulls in viewers (Mrs Brown's Boys being an example)

Not really!

I didn’t actually know any of that, but I enjoy it too it’s really funny.

It was filmed in a period of time where there was lots of behaviour that nowadays wouldn’t have been considered acceptable.

Thankfully times are changing and people challenge this more now, but complaining to the BBC will literally do nothing and achieve nothing