Violet Berlin is a Turkish

Turkey

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 born English

England

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 television presenter, writer

Writer

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 and producer

Television producer

The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

 best known for her coverage of video games.

Career

Berlin began presenting in the early 1990s when she presented WildBunch on BBC One, and Cool Cube on BSkyB. She is best known for co-presenting Bad Influence!

Bad Influence (TV series)

Bad Influence! was an early to mid-1990s British factual television programme broadcast on CITV between 1992 and 1996. It looked at video games and computer technology, and was described as a "kid’s Tomorrow's World". It was shown on Thursday afternoons and had a run of four series of between 13...

between 1992 and 1996, a video gaming series with Andy Crane

Andy Crane

Howard Andrew 'Andy' Crane is an English television and radio presenter, best known for presenting Children's BBC , amongst many others.-Career:...

 on terrestrial television (ITV

ITV

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) at a time where Mega Drive, SNES

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

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 and Game Boy

Game Boy

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 products dominated the market.

Berlin then went on the host a number of other terrestrial

Terrestrial television

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 shows, including Saturday Disney

Saturday Disney

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, The Big Bang

The Big Bang (TV series)

The Big Bang is a CITV science show that broadcast from April 15, 1996 - September 8, 2004, produced by Yorkshire Television. It is notable for being one of CITV's longest-running science programmes...

, and Bits & Bytes.

She is also known for writing and hosting

Presenter

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 video gaming show Gamepad

Gamepad (TV series)

Gamepad was a British television show about video games which ran for four series on Bravo. It was hosted by Violet Berlin.The show distinguished itself from rival video games shows by professing to be "by gamers, for gamers"...

, which aired on the Bravo satellite channel between 2001 and 2004.

The show ran for four series, and was produced by the company Berlin runs with her partner Gareth Jones

Gareth Jones (presenter)

Gareth Jones is a Welsh television presenter and celebrity. He began his broadcasting career under the name Gaz Top....

, another presenter who has presented shows such as How 2

How 2

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.

She currently works as a writer and science communicator for major museum projects such as The Royal Observatory in Greenwich, and sometimes appears on Jones's motoring podcast "Gareth Jones on Speed

Gareth Jones On Speed

Gareth Jones On Speed is a car and motorsport podcast written and performed by UK TV presenter Gareth Jones and made by TV and podcasting production company WhizzBang.-Contents:...

".

Other appearances

Violet also had cameos as a playable character in the 1994 Codemasters

Codemasters

The Codemasters Software Company Limited, or Codemasters is a British video game developer founded by Richard and David Darling in 1986...

 racing videogame

Racing game

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, Micro Machines 2 and subsequent sequels, and as a non-player character in Gabriel Knight 2 and Normality

Normality (video game)

Normality is a 3D graphical adventure game, released in June 1996 by Gremlin Interactive. All cut-scenes in the game are pre-rendered. The game's engine was later used in the game Realms of the Haunting.-Plot:...

.

External links

• www.consolesandconkers.co.uk Interview with Violet Berlin
• Bad Influence! Website interview with Berlin
• WhizzBang TV, Berlin and Jones's television production company