Teddy Wilson (television Personality)
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Teddy Wilson is a Canadian
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,
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and producer originally from
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,
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, best known as host of the interactive real estate show ''Hot Property'' on
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, and the
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''
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'' on
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,
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, and over 100 other international broadcasters; host of the factual entertainment series '' Never Ever Do This At Home'' (2013–2014) on Discovery Channel in Canada and
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in the
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, and host/producer on the Canadian daily entertainment talk-show ''
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'' on
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(2008–2018). He was also an actor on the internationally syndicated series ''
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'', and a senior producer on the
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-winning series '' MTV Live''.


Career


''You Can't Do That On Television''

While a student in Ottawa, Wilson (then known as "Ted") appeared on the internationally syndicated series ''
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'', broadcast in over 20 countries, including the United States on
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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
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series ''
PopCultured ''PopCultured'' is a Canadian television talk show, which aired on The Comedy Network in 2005 and 2006. The program featured stand-up comedian Elvira Kurt and other cast members poking fun at celebrities in the context of a mock newscast similar to ...
'', hosted by comedian
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. In 2005, Wilson joined
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for the launch of daily comedy talk show '' MTV Live'', where he served as a senior producer until late 2008, and shared a
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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,
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. Upon the creation of flagship daily entertainment talk-show ''
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'' in 2009, he became co-host of the new series, alongside
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and Morgan Hoffman. After a first assignment interviewing
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at
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, Wilson went on to interview Sir Anthony Hopkins,
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; the casts of '' The Twilight Saga'', ''
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'', ''
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'', '' The Walking Dead'', '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', and many others. As host of ''InnerSpace'', Wilson conducted set visits and interviews across
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, the
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, and covered The Toronto International Film Festival,
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,
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''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,
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in the
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, and
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in
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. ''Never Ever Do This At Homes first season was nominated for Best Factual Series by the
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, and the second season of the show aired on
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in Spring 2014. The format for the 13-episode series, produced by Toronto-based Insight Production Company Ltd in association with Discovery Canada and
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, is based on an original series devised by Norwegian broadcaster
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and distributed by DRG.
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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.,
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, and
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.


''After the Black''

On Saturday, March 26, 2016 it was announced that ''After the Black'', the ''
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'' after show hosted by Wilson and his co-hosts
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and Morgan Hoffman, had been picked up by
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for broadcast following ''Orphan Black'' during the show's fourth season.


''Mighty Trains''

Wilson is currently host of ''
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''. The series airs in over 100 countries, including in the United States on
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and
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in Canada. In each one-hour episode, he brings 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 recently 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

Wilson is guest co-host of ''Cravings: The Aftershow'' season 1 on streaming service Crave, alongside host Lainey Lui from The Social and eTalk. They describe plot points and analyze characters from the HBO series '' The Outsider''. Wilson hosted ''Inside the Race'', the digital companion series for ''
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'' during the show's first season. Co-hosted by etalk's Danielle McGimsie, the webisodes feature analysis and after-show interviews with race teams and series host
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. In November 2013, Wilson appeared as a celebrity panelist on five episodes of the
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series
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. He is a regular guest on etalk,
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,
The Marilyn Denis Show ''The Marilyn Denis Show'' is a Canadian daytime television talk show which debuted on January 10, 2011, on CTV and CTV 2 (formerly A-Channel). Hosted by Marilyn Denis, the show airs weekdays at 10 a.m. on CTV and 11 a.m. ET on CTV 2 (timeslots v ...
,
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, and The Social. Wilson's writing has appeared in the
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(Canada's largest newspaper), Toro Magazine, and
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. Wilson has hosted numerous media and industry events, including the
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' FanZone, etalk Live On The Red Carpet At The
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(co-hosted with
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), the
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s (Canada's Comic Book Awards), and the Canadian Science Fiction Awards. Wilson plays drums in the indie-rock band HUDDLE, represented by Third Side Music. HUDDLE's videos have been played on
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and MTV Canada, and their music can be heard in the MTV series ''
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'' and
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's film '' The Company You Keep''. While earning an honours
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in
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, Wilson worked as a constituency assistant to John Baird, the former
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and
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, and after university went on to work for Baird at the
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. Wilson continued to work in the Ontario government as a political advisor to David Turnbull, Member of Provincial Parliament of
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and Minister of Enterprise, Opportunity and Innovation, until 2003.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, Teddy Canadian columnists Canadian television hosts Canadian people of Irish descent Canadian television talk show hosts Carleton University alumni Living people Canadian infotainers Canadian male child actors Male actors from Ottawa Canadian television writers Canadian television producers Writers from Ottawa Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian male television writers