Steve Burns wasn’t so sure “Blues Clues” would connect.
Speaking to PEOPLE, Burns, original host of the popular children’s program, “didn’t think it would work at all.”
Speaking to the publication with the hosts who came after him, Donovan Patton and Joshua Dela Cruz, the trio was promoting the new Paramount+ movie “Blue’s Big City Adventure.”
“Blue’s Clues” premiered on Nickelodeon in 1996 with Burns hosting opposite the animated titular puppy. He recalled at the time thinking the show “was simply too strange and too breakthrough, and I didn’t think the kids would talk back to the TV screen.”
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Burns went on calling it the “Rocky Horror Children’s Show.”
“These are all the things that I liked about it, but I didn’t think that they would work. I doubted it. I was skeptical that they would work,” he said.
His suspicions were put to rest quickly after the show premiered.
“Then it aired, and it became immediately No. 1, and it had this global reach and everything,” he said. “It always felt like a very small and personal experience to me.”
Burns, Patton, and Dela Cruz are reunited with Blue in “Blue’s Big City Adventure,” streaming on Paramount+ now.
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