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On the heels of last week’s rebroadcast of John Ridley’s powerful 2017 documentary Let It Fall,  about the 1992 riots in Los Angeles, ABC is again reaching into its vaults from 2017 for a re-broadcast of the two-hour special Taking the Stage: African American Music and Stories that Changed America. The network…

Editors’ Note: Live events were hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, with sweeping cancellations of festivals, sports and awards shows. Don Mischer is one of the doyens of the live-event business. During his long career, he has produced/directed dozens of high-profile special event-telecasts from the Oscars and…

The publicity campaigns that drove Warner Bros’ Joker and Disney+’s The Mandalorian took top honors Friday at the 57th annual ICG Publicists Awards at the Beverly Hilton. Joker, which is up for a leading 11 Oscars on Sunday, won the Maxwell Weinberg Award for Motion Pictures Publicity Campaign. Season 1 of Disney+’s St…

Judd Apatow will host the 72nd annual DGA Awards – his first time since 2018 – and Don Mischer will return as Awards Chair for the third consecutive year, DGA president Thomas Schlamme announced today. The event is set for Jan. 25 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. "I am so excited to host again as…

Prolific producer and director Don Mischer will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600) Publicists Awards in February. "Having spent the early years of my career working in live event television, the name Don Mischer is legendary to me. I am so pleased…

Veteran live-TV helmer and former DGA national board member Don Mischer is set to receive the guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Achievement in Television Direction. The honor will be handed out during the 71st annual DGA Awards on February 2 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland. Mischer…

The Directors Guild has tapped Judd Apatow to host the 70th annual DGA Awards, and also said veteran awards-show producer Don Mischer has been appointed awards chair. The news comes ahead of Wednesday and Thursday’s DGA nominations announcements, with the winners unveiled in the ceremony February 3 at the Beverly…

The Television Academy has not only transformed their North Hollywood-based campus with a brand new theater complex, they are transforming the awards themselves as evidenced by this morning’s gargantuan announcement of nominees in a whopping – and record – 113 categories. Can you say “proliferation”? But this morning…

Don Mischer is returning as producer of the 68th Emmy Awards. Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the Emmys will be broadcast live on ABC on Sunday, September 18, from LA’s Microsoft Theater. This will be Mischer’s sixth time producing the awards. Mischer Productions' Charlie Haykel and Juliane Hare also will return as…

Don Mischer has produced a slew of Super Bowl halftime shows including those with Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones. He also handled the rain-soaked 2007 show starring Prince, which many have called the best of them all. "I have been fortunate enough to work with many talented artists, but he…

Tracy Morgan’s surprise appearance as the final presenter at the Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday was the brainchild of his publicist Lewis Kay, the comedian said backstage after awarding HBO’s Game Of Thrones the night’s last prize, Outstanding Drama Series. Emmys executive producer Don Mischer and Television Academy…

Fox NFL Sunday will be broadcast from the red carpet at the 67th Emmy Awards, airing on Fox this September 20. The sports show will air at noon ET from the red carpet – the first time a sports-themed pregame show will air live from the site of the Emmys. The trophy ceremony’s producer EP Don Mischer said he was…