Steve Blame

Screenwriter, Author, Format Developer and Host. Shore Scripts 2018 TV Pilot Winner. Writer on pilot of Cape Town. One of the original faces of MTV Europe. MTV News Editor and Presenter between 1987 and 1994. Interviewed all major pop stars from Madonna to McCartney, Zappa to Cobain. Presented MTV News, MTV News At Night, The Steve Blame Show, and Take the Blame. Main on-air presenter spearheading MTV's pro-social campaigns. Other interviews include Gorbachev, Delors, Peres, and even the Dalai Lama. After leaving MTV in 1994, he set up Viva 2 in Germany. Under his direction the channel won the Gold Art Director's Award for its on-air design in 1996. He also set up a youth channel in Luxembourg, his Eyeworks, Grebe co-developed game-show format Where's the Money? launched on TROS in Holland in 2005, ran on Tele-Madrid and was nominated for the Rose d'or. Blame released his auto-biography Getting Lost is Part of the Journey in 2010 in Germany (Luebbe). Zwischen Rotwein, Filetsteak und Popstar-Neurosen (Between red wine, filet steak and pop star neuroses) was released through publishing house Gonzo in 2013. He has appeared on many TV shows in Germany and in 2016 he hosted a prime-time show Songs für die Ewigkeit (Songs for Eternity) on the German channel Vox.