Are You Afraid of the Darkish? Creator Reveals the One Factor Nickelodeon Wouldn’t Let Them Do – E! On-line

Nickelodeon was not seeking to play with hearth when it got here to this present.

Horror sequence Are You Afraid of the Darkish? was nightmare gasoline for youths who grew up within the ’90s watching The Midnight Society collect ‘spherical the fireplace for a scary story. However the present’s creator not too long ago revealed the community had a particular safeguard in place to verify issues did not actually go up in flames.

“You by no means noticed them gentle the campfire,” creator D.J. MacHale told Bloody Digusting’s Horror4Kids March 24. “You by no means noticed them strike a match and lighting the campfire as a result of they did not need children enjoying with matches.”

Whereas MacHale acknowledged they principally “had carte blanche” and have been allowed to do no matter they wished to do, Nickelodeon did push again every so often in the event that they nervous about viewers changing into copycats.

“The one feedback we acquired from them had nothing to do with the scary stuff,” MacHale famous. “Like several present, they’re nervous about imitate-able habits. They do not wish to present a child doing one thing that somebody’s going to do at house and say, ‘I discovered that on Nickelodeon and that is why I worn out my household.'”

E! Information reached out to Nickelodeon for remark and has not heard again.