David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. A Reilly big show
Idea for a new reality show: Place Kevin (“Lose with Quality Programming”) Reilly and Mike (“Win with Endtimes-Accelerating Shlock”) Darnell in an enclosed cage and see what happens.
Which is exactly what Fox Entertainment chairman Peter Liguori did today, when he installed former NBC executive Reilly as Fox’s president of Entertainment. Darnell, of course, creates sh!t like “The Swan” and “Who’s Your Daddy?” Should be fun.
For Reilly, who moves from the No. 4 to the No. 1 network, this is a case of failing upwards almost as impressive as that of his former boss, Jeff Zucker, who made NBC No. 4 in the first place and then got kicked upstairs.