About The Hosts

DIANE MIZOTA

As a television host, actor, producer and professional dancer, Diane Mizota’s career experience has been varied and vast.

Most recently, Diane has joined Hollywood luminaries Peter Bart and Peter Guber as a correspondent for “In the House” on Starz/Encore and KNBC, covering the movie business. In 2008, Diane co-hosted Bingo America with Richard Karn on the Game Show Network five nights a week. She also continues to be a Buzz Session host for Yahoo!, using her dance expertise to cover such shows as Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance. Diane also co-hosted the family game show Your Place or Mine for TLC, where she led a fast-paced moving team installing instant room makeovers. 

A Northern California native, Diane Mizota graduated from UCLA cum laude with her degree in Communications Studies, while simultaneously pursuing a professional dance career. With credits including, Prince, the Academy Awards, Friends, Memoirs of a Geisha and Boogie Nights, Diane eventually expanded her career into acting. Her theatrical credits now include The Green Hornet, King of Queens, Dexter, How I Met Your Mother, CSI: Miami, and a memorable film role opposite Mike Myers as “Fook Mi” in Austin Powers in Goldmember. She also starred in a national Cadillac campaign titled, “Accessories” and has over 50 national commercials to her credit. 
For almost 4 years Diane hosted G4’s countdown show Filter, covering the world of technology, gadgets and video games. Her loyal fan following made this show one of the most popular on the network.

As the host of the hit kids’ decorating show Trading Spaces: Boys vs. Girls on NBC and Discovery Kids, Diane helped implement kids’ room makeovers across the country. The show is a spin off of the original Trading Spaces and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 2004 and 2005. 

In 2006, Diane joined the cast of NBC’s primetime reality show, Three Wishes. As part of a team led by singer Amy Grant, Diane traveled to small towns across America to grant people’s wishes. 

As a producer, Diane recently worked as a field producer for the NBC primetime reality show, Momma’s Boys. She has created and produced independent pilot presentations for the Warner Brothers Television Workspace and is currently developing projects with Glassman Media.

SCOT RUBIN

Since 1996 Scot Rubin has created over 1,000 hours of television, radio, and interactive content about electronic entertainment. As a consultant for Comcast and co-founder and Vice President of G4 Media, Scot helped bring the world of video games to television in 2002.

Since 1996 Scot has interviewed more than 700 CEO’s, Game Designers, Musicians, Artists, Athletes and Gamers as Host of Game Time! (live, daily 1997-2000), G4tv.com (weekly 2002-2004), All Games Interactive (Live daily 2005-2008), EA Sports Madden Challenge (2003-2004) and E3 Coverage (1996-2005).

Before G4, Scot founded All Games Network (AGN) where he developed and produced 15 hours of live interactive programming each week. AGN was sold to Net-TV pioneer Pseudo Programs and Rubin served as VP of Games and Sports programming. He was also the first to produce live television style coverage of the video game industry trade event E3 (1998-200). As VP of Games and Sports at Pseudo, Scot also served as EP of the Quarterback Club Channel, a joint venture with the NFL. In that role he developed programming around NFL players Boomer Esiason, Jim Kelly, Keyshawn Johnson, Warren Moon and others.

In 2005 Scot launched All Games Radio, (www.allgames.com) an interactive network for gamers featuring original talk and music programs about video games. He also produced and hosted All Games Interactive, a live daily show about the interactive entertainment industry.

Scot Executive Produced “As Real As Your Life”. Part documentary, part narrative, and part animation, As Real as Your Life chronicles one video game addict’s experiences and explores the personal and social repercussions of spending more time playing in the virtual world than in the real one. The film has been screened to wide acclaim at TED2006, the Game Developers Conference, America’s Video Game Expo, as well as in a short film section at the Cannes film festival.

In 2008 Scot was hired as the Vice President of Global Marketing for the Championship Gaming Series, an international electronic sports league owned and operated by DirecTV in association with British Sky Broadcasting and Star TV Asia