Mike Darnell

Mike Darnell
Michael H. "Mike" Darnellis an American television executive who is most well known as the Director of Specials for the Fox broadcast network from 1994 until 2007, and president of alternative entertainment from August 2007 until June 2013, titles which effectively had him oversee the network's reality television programming division during the genre's rise. Darnell is currently President of Unscripted and Alternative Television at Warner Bros. Television, which he began on August 12...
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We don't know when it will end. The biggest issue is it could end at any moment.
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