Behind the Scenes: How We Make TV

I work with a really small TV crew — just me, my producer, and one cameraman. And after shooting about 140 episodes over the last 20 years, we have a great filming process. These photos from our Scotland shoot give a few peeks at how we work.

While you can shoot an “on camera” just about anywhere, we search out beautiful and meaningful settings for me to talk directly to the camera. We only shoot “on cameras” for material we can’t cover well with images of locations — generally heavy history....