MIKE DARNELL

'Mike Darnell' is the president of Alternative Entertainment for the Fox Broadcasting Company. He is largely responsible for many of the specials and reality series that have occupied the Fox schedule since the mid-1990s, including ''When Animals Attack!'', ''Temptation Island'', ''Joe Millionaire'', ''American Idol'', and the cancelled special ''O.J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here's How It Happened''.