Mike D. Seaman was a television producer, funding the Idol Survival reality show. He had a close relationship with one of the Gravure idols, Zǐlì. It was later revealed that the Idol Survival show was a ruse for Mike, as well as Zǐlì, who were undercover agents employed by Shéng-Yā Pharmaceutical to retrieve a sample of the t-Miller virus developed by Dirk Miller. Later on, Mike was killed by the Shaman B.O.W. which roamed the island.