Fernando Mills began his career in reality television 15 years ago at MTV, where he worked his way up the ranks on high-volume shows like FANatic and Making the Video.  In 2000, he was one of the producers on the first Emmy-winning season of Survivor, which led to developing and producing some of the most iconic reality TV formats, like The Amazing Race (CBS), Boot Camp (FOX), The Mole (ABC), Surreal Life (WB), and Next Action Star (NBC).   

Mills became a member of the DGA on Worst Case Scenario, where he developed, produced, and directed international adventure race segments for all 22 episodes.  As a freelance show-runner, he produced comedies like Mr. Romance for Oxygen and dramas like the critically acclaimed Black. White. for F/X. 

In 2007, Mills launched a full-service production company, Brand New Entertainment, selling projects to MTV, A&E, G4, OWN and WE, making over 30 hours of original content in the first year of business; including shows like Rock the Reception and Real Simple, Real Life for TLC. 

After a year as an in-house Executive Producer at Reveille, working on both digital and television projects, Mills joined 51 Minds Entertainment as SVP of Current Programming, working on series such as Does Someone Have to Go? (FOX),  Whodunnit? (ABC), Redneck Island (CMT), LaLa’s Full Court Life (VH1), and TI & Tiny: The Family Hustle (VH1). 

After working in production and development for his entire career, Mills recently transitioned to the network side of things and now serves as the VP of Production and Programming at VH1.

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