Douglas M. Wilson on Running LA Ink, My BFF with Paris Hilton, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher

Douglas M. Wilson has been in the room for some of the strangest and most memorable television of the last thirty years.

A four time Emmy nominee, he went from being an assistant at MTV to the Comedy Channel, then spent the better part of a decade on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, rising from associate producer to showrunner. From there he built an entire second career in unscripted television with LA Ink, The Pickup Artist, American Inventor, Best Week Ever and Paris Hilton's My New BFF. He breaks down how the Politically Incorrect panel was engineered, why Bill Maher was far kinder than his on air reputation suggests, and why he believes a bad profit deal, not the 9/11 comments, is what actually killed the show at ABC.