Former Tony Awards Producer Mischer to Produce Emmys, Again

As reported by Variety, Don Mischer will be returning to produce the 2010 Emmy Awards for the tenth time. Set for August 29, 2010, the telecast will be featured on NBC. Mischer has also produced the Tony Awards in 1987-89, as well as many other prestigious television events.  

Last year's 61st Annual Emmy Awards, hosted by Broadway veteran Neil Patrick Harris, took place on Sept. 20th.  The telecast, produced by Mischer, was seen by 13.3 million viewers and recieved a rating 11% higher than the 2008 show. This made it the most-watched Emmy telecast in the past three years.

Mischer has produced television programs since 1976, when he produced a special for Barbra Streisand. Other programs have included Kennedy Center Honors, the Emmy Awards, The Grand Opening of Euro Disney, the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics and the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympics, and programs for Bob Hope, Nell Carter, Christopher Reeve, the Pointer Sisters and Mikhail Baryshnikov. He also produced the The Wayne Brady Show and the halftime shows for Super Bowl XXVIII, xxIX, XL and XLI in 1993 and 2005 through 2008. In 2009, he produced We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial, the public concert in Washington, DC held two days prior to the inauguration of Barack Obama as 44th President of the United States. Mischer has won 13 Emmy Awards as director or producer, dating back to the 1980s and a broadcast of the Kennedy Center Honors.