After some time in his ‘Thinking Chair’, Steve Burns is starting a dialogue with the generation who grew up watching him on Nickelodeon.
The original star of Blue’s Clues is launching his own podcast, Alive, from Lemonada Media this fall, described as “cozy and delightful weekly series” that explores “what it means to stay human in a complicated world.”
“There are a thousand podcasts you can listen to, this is one that listens back,” explained Burns in a statement. “I really want to continue what we started decades ago. For us, it was all about curious investigation. It was about looking a little closer. About asking the right questions.”
Following his original run on Blue’s Clues from 1996 to 2003, solving mysteries with the help of his titular animated dog, Burns “continues to connect with both the generation who grew up with him and new audiences alike” as he prepares to host guests on Alive.
Burns sees the podcast as a “continuation of that same conversation—only now we’re grown-ups, trying to make sense of a world that’s a whole lot more complicated.”
After he was replaced by Donovan Patton, Burns revealed in the 2006 Nick special Behind the Clues: 10 Years of Blue that he left the show because he felt he was growing out of the role. “I knew I wasn’t going to be doing children’s television all my life, mostly because I refused to lose my hair on a kid’s TV show. And it was happening fast,” he said at the time.
The revamped and retitled Blue’s Clues and You with new host Joshua Dela Cruz premiered on Nickelodeon in November 2019. Burns and Patton, who played Joe, returned for its premiere episode.
