It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is.

He loved kids but he didn't want to make a career out of it. Johnson said that "what made Burns a great children's host was that 'he didn't want to be a children's host. " In 2000 People magazine included Burns in their annual list of America's most eligible bachelors.

Steven Michael "Steve" Burns (born October 9 1973) is an American entertainer. He is best known as the original host of the long-running children's television program Blue's Clues.