“She’s got as much testosterone as any guy I know.” That’s how Doug Herzog describes Sharon Levy, who is in charge of developing reality programming for Spike TV.

This New York Times profile of Levy focuses on how she picks shows for one of the most male-targeted networks on TV, home of “Deadliest Warrior,” “4th and Long,” and the former star of “Monster Garage” doing daredevil stunts on “Jesse James is a Dead Man.”

—Chuck Ross