Berlin first appeared on television screens in the 1990s, as a presenter on
WildBunch on BBC1 and as writer-presenter for live youth magazine show
Cool Cube for BSkyB from 1990 to 1992. On
Cool Cube she produced and presented the first regular coverage of computer and video games on British television. She went on to present
Bad Influence! between 1992 and 1996, a video gaming series which she hosted with
Andy Crane on
ITV. As well as presenting from the studio, Berlin covered outside reports in the USA and Japan and wrote and presented her own opinion features as "Virtual Violet". Berlin then went on the host a number of other
terrestrial shows, including live entertainment show
Saturday Disney and long running ITV popular science show
The Big Bang. On the 30th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 flight in July 1999, along with
Jon Snow, she co-hosted the live UK Channel 4 programme
Real Time Apollo: One Small Step. She helped devise branching narrative games for the
BBC and
Science Museum, she has written the scripts for large-scale projection-mapped films, including an immersive visual poem for
Gardens by the Bay in Singapore and she created the dramatic characters who appear as part of the
British Museum's Temple of Amaravati interactive experience in 2018, where visitors summon pilgrims to an ancient Buddhist shrine. ==Personal life==