''You Can't Do That On Television'' While a student in Ottawa, Wilson (then known as "Ted") appeared on the internationally syndicated series ''
You Can't Do That On Television'', broadcast in over 20 countries, including the United States on
Nickelodeon and in Canada on
YTV. He appeared in 16 episodes between 1989 and 1991.
Comedy Network and MTV Live In 2004 and 2005, Wilson served as Talent Booker on
The Comedy Network series
PopCultured, hosted by comedian
Elvira Kurt. In 2005, Wilson joined
MTV Canada for the launch of daily comedy talk show
MTV Live, where he served as a senior producer until late 2008, and shared a
Gemini Award for Best Talk Series. While working at MTV, Wilson often appeared on-air spoofing his "former child-star" status during the popular "after-school special" sketches.
InnerSpace In late 2008, Wilson became a segment producer and on-air correspondent for Canada's national science-fiction and Genre channel,
Space. Upon the creation of flagship daily entertainment talk-show
InnerSPACE in 2009, he became co-host of the new series, alongside
Ajay Fry and Morgan Hoffman. After a first assignment interviewing
George Lucas at
Skywalker Ranch, Wilson went on to interview
Sir Anthony Hopkins,
Hugh Jackman,
Jennifer Lawrence,
Jake Gyllenhaal,
Matt Damon,
Jodie Foster,
Christian Bale,
Kate Beckinsale,
Nicolas Cage,
Bryan Cranston,
Mark Ruffalo,
Martin Sheen,
Anderson Cooper,
John Malkovich,
Nathan Fillion,
William Shatner and
Leonard Nimoy; Directors
David Cronenberg,
Robert Zemeckis,
Zack Snyder,
Guillermo del Toro; authors
George R.R. Martin,
Neil Gaiman,
Anne Rice;
Marvel's
Stan Lee; the casts of
The Twilight Saga,
The Big Bang Theory,
Game of Thrones,
Doctor Who,
The Walking Dead,
Star Trek: The Next Generation, and many others. As host of
InnerSpace, Wilson conducted set visits and interviews across North America, the United Kingdom,
Thailand, Russia, and covered
The Toronto International Film Festival,
San Diego Comic-Con,
Fan Expo Canada, and numerous other national and international events. In 2011, Wilson won "Outstanding Contribution to Film or TV" at the
Canadian Sci-Fi Awards for his work on
InnerSpace. Wilson was nominated for Best Host in a Variety, Lifestyle, Reality/Competition, Talk Program or Series at the 2015 Canadian Screen Awards for his work on
Innerspace. InnerSpace was nominated for Best Talk Program or Series at the 2017 Canadian Screen Awards.
Never Ever Do This at Home Alongside award-winning comedian Norm Sousa (
The Sketchersons), Wilson hosts the factual entertainment series
Never Ever Do This at Home. Production on season 1 occurred in Fall/Winter 2012, and aired on the
Discovery Channel in Canada,
Spike in the United States, and
NRK3 in Norway.
Never Ever Do This at Home's first season was nominated for Best Factual Series by the
Canadian Screen Awards, and the second season of the show aired on
Discovery Canada in Spring 2014. The format for the 13-episode series, produced by Toronto-based Insight Production Company Ltd in association with Discovery Canada and
Bell Media, is based on an original series devised by Norwegian broadcaster
NRK and distributed by DRG.
The Hollywood Reporter at one time suggested that U.K. distributor DRG was close to also selling Insight's
Never Ever Do This at Home version to broadcasters in the U.K., China, Spain, and Italy.
After the Black On Saturday, March 26, 2016 it was announced that
After the Black, the
Orphan Black after show hosted by Wilson and his co-hosts
Ajay Fry and Morgan Hoffman, had been picked up by
BBC America for broadcast following
Orphan Black during the show's fourth season.
Mighty Trains Wilson is currently host of
Mighty Trains. The series airs in over 100 countries, including in the United States on
Smithsonian Channel and
Discovery Channel in Canada. Each one-hour episode takes rail fans on a memorable train trip in a scenic global location. Since premiering in 2016 the series has spanned 6 continents, covering trains in Switzerland, Japan, Norway, Australia, Ecuador, India, Spain, New Zealand, Sweden, Thailand, South Africa, Italy, Peru, Vietnam, Serbia & Montenegro, Canada, and the United States.
Mighty Trains won the Gold Medal in the "Travel and Tourism" category at the 2018 New York Festival's World's Best TV & Film Awards. The series was renewed for a fourth season, with production occurring in late 2019 and early 2020. In 2022, he was cohost with
Aliya Jasmine of the spinoff series
The Mightiest. == Other work ==