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…

EXCLUSIVE: Thirteen-time Emmy and 10-time DGA winner Don Mischer may be very busy preparing the upcoming 67th annual Primetime Emmy Awards for broadcast on Fox on September 20, but that hasn’t stopped him and his Don Mischer Productions team from making a rare foray into the movies. And it’s a big one: Director Ang Lee…

While there will be a change at the helm of the Oscars, with Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announcing yesterday that they won’t be coming back, there will be continuity at the Primetime Emmy Awards. Don Mischer, who produced last year’s telecast and four of the past six, is set to return. He will produce the 67th…

The TV Academy probably should take another look at the categories for its Primetime Emmy Awards, academy chairman/CEO Bruce Rosenblum told TV critics this morning at the TCAs summer press tour after TV critics began to flog him and the academy for not doing a better job “policing” which categories series and actors…

After this morning’s announcement of the Emmy nominations, Don Mischer, the veteran (and much awarded himself) executive producer of this year’s 66th annual Emmy Awards jokingly suggested to me that maybe there should be an awards show that only honors other award shows! God help us. We almost have that now. At the…

Hollywood has increasingly been turning up at awards ceremonies, groundbreakings and on promotional tours in China in an effort to further connect with the world's 2nd largest box office territory. Next month, the Huading Film Awards will see Chinese stars come to Hollywood to rub shoulders and honor the global film…