"Mike" Darnell is an American television executive who is currently the president of Unscripted & Alternative Television at Warner Bros.
He spent nearly 19 years at the FOX network as president of Alternative Entertainment, overseeing the network's reality television division during the genre's rise.
Tvbythenumbers' Masked Scheduler claims that Darnell is "the king of reality TV and one of the more interesting, offbeat characters ever to occupy an executive suite."