Career
Berlin began presenting in the early 1990s when she presented WildBunch on BBC One, and Cool Cube for BSkyB. She is best known for co-presenting Bad Influence! between 1992 and 1996, a video gaming series with Andy Crane on terrestrial television (ITV) at a time where Mega Drive, SNES and Game Boy products dominated the market.
Berlin then went on the host a number of other terrestrial shows, including Saturday Disney, The Big Bang, and Bits & Bytes.
She is also known for writing and hosting video gaming show Gamepad, 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, another presenter who has presented shows such as How 2.
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".
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