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.
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