“I doubted it.
I was skeptical that they would work,” he said.
“I liked that it was kind of theRocky Horror Children’s Show.”
Steve Burns as Steve on ‘Blue’s Clues.'.Everett Collection
Despite his initial worries, the series instantly became an overnight hit.
“Then it aired, and it became immediately No.
1, and it had this global reach and everything,” he recalled.
A revival series starring Joshua Dela Cruz, titledBlue’s Clues and You, premiered in 2019.
Still, Burns maintained that there was always a “special” quality to the series.
“It always felt like a very small and personal experience to me,” he said.
“It was me and a camera.
And in my mind, it was me and a conversation with one other human being.
So it always felt very small to me.”
