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Albert Fisher is a television executive with
creative credits from all major networks, top
syndicators, cable networks, as well as station
groups. For ten years, as CEO of Fisher/Merlis
Television, Inc. he has won numerous awards
including the coveted national Emmy. Fisher
currently has multiple broadcast and
cablecast series and specials seen world-wide.
Recent television programs include: “Cassini:
Rendezvous With The Ringed Planet” and “Mars Rocks”
which is airing on both the Discovery Channel and
The Science Channel, “Secrets of San Simeon with
Patricia Hearst” and “The Ultimate Thrill” for
Discovery’s Travel Channel, “Flea Market Finds with
The Kovels” now in its 5th season for Home and
Garden Television, “The Zen Of Organizing” for Fine
Living, “The Harlem Hellfighters” for The History
Channel, “The Real Me” series and specials for The
Good Life Network and many others. Fisher/Merlis
Television has created and produced hundreds of
programs and specials for Scripps HGTV including
“Willard Scott’s Home and Garden Almanac,” “Kitty
Bartholomew: You’re Home,” “The Urban Gardener with
Meshach Taylor” and “Ask Kitty.” He also produced
the Emmy winning nationally syndicated series:
“Better Homes and Gardens Television.”
Fisher has created a varied slate of hour-long
“specials” for various networks. He is also
responsible for numerous home videos and DVD’s which
are being marketed world-wide as the “official”
presentations for such prestigious destinations as
The Hearst Castle at San Simeon, The Huntington
Gardens and Library in Pasadena, The Piedras Blancas
Lighthouse on the California coast and Loretta
Lynn’s Plantation Home and Museum in Tennessee.
He has served as a Producer for the NBC-TV Network
series: “I Witness Video” and the Fox Television
Network news magazine series: “Front Page” and has
functioned in various senior programming and
management positions with broadcasters world-wide
including WOR-TV, New York City; WTOP-TV,
Washington, DC; WKYC-TV, Cleveland; WMAQ-TV,
Chicago; and WWL-TV, New Orleans, where he was one
of the first broadcasters to create the
magazine-format concept .
His talent as a Producer/Director/Writer associated
with films, television and multi-media events has
garnered many international awards including film
festivals in Cannes, New York, London, Chicago,
Barcelona, Lucarno and Edinburgh. Mr. Fisher has
also received awards from The American Bar
Association, The International Film and Television
Festival and the coveted Columbia School of
Journalism’s Alfred I. DuPont Award for the
documentary: “Whispering Hope: Unmasking The Mystery
Of Alzheimers.”
As an Executive Producer with NBC, Albert Fisher
created, produced and directed numerous
award-winning magazine shows, documentaries and
public-affairs programs and specials. In this
capacity, and his current role as a hands-on
executive producer, he has spent time as an
undercover inmate in The Ohio State Penitentiary,
has flown in supersonic fighter aircraft, sailed
international “Tall Ships,” lived on the bottom of
the Atlantic Ocean in a NASA underwater habitat and
recently became one of the few people to ever film
and explore the remote Arctic Circle island of
Surtsey off the coast of Iceland.
Fisher Television Productions, Inc.
269 South Wilton Place
Los Angeles, CA 90004
T) 323.692.0991
F) 323.692.0981 |