Michael Glazer

Last updated April 24, 2019

Mikey Glazer is an entertainment lawyer and former television producer known for his work on reality television programming. Glazer produced NBC reality/game show Fear Factor from 2001-2006. After Fear Factor ended its run, Glazer was Supervising Producer of the CBS Primetime Special Dr. Phil’s Romance Rescue and went to law school. Currently, Glazer resides in Los Angeles, California and continues to represent award-winning content creators in their media projects. Since 2009, he has written a column for the entertainment industry trade paper TheWrap.

A lawyer or attorney is a person who practices law, as an advocate, attorney, attorney at law, barrister, barrister-at-law, bar-at-law, civil law notary, counsel, counselor, counsellor, counselor at law, solicitor, chartered legal executive, or public servant preparing, interpreting and applying law, but not as a paralegal or charter executive secretary. Working as a lawyer involves the practical application of abstract legal theories and knowledge to solve specific individualized problems, or to advance the interests of those who hire lawyers to perform legal services.

A television producer is a person who oversees all aspects of video production on a television program. Some producers take more of an executive role, in that they conceive new programs and pitch them to the television networks, but upon acceptance they focus on business matters, such as budgets and contracts. Other producers are more involved with the day-to-day workings, participating in activities such as screenwriting, set design, casting and directing.

Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unknown individuals rather than professional actors. Reality television came to prominence in the late 1990s and early 2000s with the global successes of the series Survivor, Idols, and Big Brother, all of which became global franchises. Reality television shows tend to be interspersed with "confessionals", short interview segments in which cast members reflect on or provide context for the events being depicted on-screen. Competition-based reality shows typically feature gradual elimination of participants, either by a panel of judges or by the viewership of the show.

Biography

Glazer attended the prestigious boarding school Deerfield Academy, in Deerfield, Massachusetts, graduating in 1994. Following that, he graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in Government. Glazer earned multiple-year, full-tuition merit scholarships to Southwestern Law School, graduating in the top of his class in 2013.

Deerfield Academy is an independent, co-educational boarding and day school in Deerfield, Massachusetts, United States for students in grades 9-12 and post-graduate (PG). Founded in 1797, it is one of the oldest secondary schools in the United States. It is a four-year college-preparatory school with approximately 650 students and about 125 faculty, all of whom live on or near campus during the school year. Deerfield had a 17.6% acceptance rate for the 2017-2018 school year. Its endowment is $590 million.

Deerfield is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. Settled near the Connecticut River in the 17th century during the colonial era, the population was 5,125 as of the 2010 census. Deerfield is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area in western Massachusetts, lying 30 miles (48 km) north of the city of Springfield.

Georgetown University is a private research university in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789 as Georgetown College, the university has grown to comprise nine undergraduate and graduate schools, among which are the School of Foreign Service, School of Business, Medical School, and Law School. Located on a hill above the Potomac River, the school's main campus is identifiable by its flagship Healy Hall, a National Historic Landmark. Georgetown offers degree programs in forty-eight disciplines, enrolling an average of 7,500 undergraduate and 10,000 post-graduate students from more than 130 countries.

Television career

Glazer began his career as an intern at The McLaughlin Group , a political talk show in Washington, D.C. He later relocated to Los Angeles and worked for Bunim/Murray Productions, creators of the MTV's The Real World and Road Rules . While at BMP and later at NBC Studios, Glazer was the assistant to frequent collaborator and mentor, Matt Kunitz.

<i>The McLaughlin Group</i> television program

The McLaughlin Group is a syndicated half-hour weekly public affairs television program in the United States, where a group of four pundits, prompted by the host, discusses current political issues in a round table format. John McLaughlin hosted from its first episode in 1982 until his death in 2016.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States. Founded after the American Revolution as the seat of government of the newly independent country, Washington was named after George Washington, first President of the United States and Founding Father. As the seat of the United States federal government and several international organizations, Washington is an important world political capital. The city is also one of the most visited cities in the world, with more than 20 million tourists annually.

Bunim/Murray Productions is an entertainment production company based out of Glendale, California, and is considered a pioneer in the reality television genre. It is best known for The Real World, Road Rules, Bad Girls Club, and Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray co-founded Bunim/Murray after agent Mark Itkin of the William Morris Agency put the two together to develop a scripted soap opera for MTV. When that was too expensive, they decided to try an unscripted soap and The Real World was born. "We knew within 20 minutes of shooting that we had a show," Bunim said. The company has expanded into music management, managing the pop punk/emo band A Cursive Memory. In March 2010, the company was acquired by Banijay Entertainment.

Glazer produced NBC's Fear Factor from 2001-2006. While promoting Fear Factor, Glazer appeared on NBC's The Today Show and VH1's VH1 News Presents: Reality Secrets Revealed. During this time, he also was Supervising Producer of the CBS Primetime Special Dr. Phil’s Romance Rescue. In 2006, Glazer was producer of Telemundo's Vas o No Vas .

Fear Factor is an American stunt/dare game show that originally aired on NBC from 2001 to 2006. It was later revived by NBC in 2011, only to be cancelled again in 2012. The show was revived a second time in 2017 to air on MTV. The original Dutch version was called Now or Neverland. When Endemol USA and NBC adapted it to the American market in 2001, they changed the name to Fear Factor. The show pits contestants against each other in a variety of stunts for a grand prize, usually of US $50,000. From seasons one to five, the contestants were generally three men and three women, all competing for themselves, but in season six, the show moved to a permanent format of four teams of two people, each with a pre-existing relationship with one another. The show was originally hosted by comedian and UFC commentator Joe Rogan, produced by Matt Kunitz and David A. Hurwitz, and directed by J. Rupert Thompson. Rapper/actor Ludacris took over as host when the show was rebooted in 2017.

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Vas o No Vas is the American Spanish-language version of Deal or No Deal, which debuted on Telemundo from October 8, 2006 to May 26, 2007 and it was produced by Endemol and NBC. The program was hosted by Héctor Sandarti, who hosted the Mexican version of the same name for Televisa. The show was taped at Televisa's Santa Fe studios in Mexico City, Mexico, where Endemol Mexico is based, in the same studio where the Mexican edition was taped. Originally airing Saturday nights at 7 PM ET/PT in a 90-minute format, the show moved to Saturday afternoons at 1PM ET / PT, edited to 60 minutes in length. The show was permanently axed when the 2007 May sweeps period was almost completed.

In 2008, Wipeout producers hired Glazer was to find a “comic host replacement” for Elon Gold, eventually hiring John Henson.

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John Morris Henson is an American actor, comedian and talk show host. He was the co-host of ABC's Wipeout with John Anderson, a prime-time game show that ran for 7 seasons.

Event Planning

In the mid-2000s, Glazer was also known for event planning. Most notably, his creation of a nationwide event tour for Columbia Pictures Identity , as well as TV Guide's SeenOn.com launch party, and other prominent media and press events in Los Angeles. From 2007-2010, he helped produce the celebrity gifting suite "Boom Boom Room." ^[1]

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

Identity is a 2003 American psychological thriller film directed by James Mangold from a screenplay written by Michael Cooney. The film stars John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, Alfred Molina, Clea DuVall and Rebecca De Mornay.

TV Guide is a bi-weekly American magazine that provides television program listings information as well as television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and, in some issues, horoscopes. The print magazine is owned by NTVB Media, while its digital properties are controlled by the CBS Interactive division of CBS Corporation; the TV Guide name and associated editorial content from the publication are licensed by CBS Interactive for use on the website and mobile app through an agreement with the magazine's parent subsidiary TVGM Holdings, Inc.

Blog

Glazer was the owner and head writer of Hollywood red carpet events blog “TheCHIMP.net”, named after his alter-ego. On his website, Glazer would post news items about a variety of his prominent friends, industry professionals, and celebrities. Articles were delivered with an irreverent and satirical style, best known for highlighting peoples' educational, institutional, and professional affiliations (i.e.: Duke ’02, Harvard Business School ’05, Merrill Lynch ‘current)

In July 2009, Glazer stopped covering Hollywood events on thechimp.net when he became a contributor to Sharon Waxman’s entertainment industry news site TheWRAP^[2] His column features photos and inside details from awards shows and social events within the Hollywood for an audience of entertainment industry professionals. At Elton John's Oscar Viewing Party in 2013, John awarded Glazer a Chopard watch for correctly predicting the most number of Oscar winners amongst the crowd at his party.

Glazer also runs a Twitter feed of real-time celebrity sightings @CelebSightings which has over 22,000 followers.

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