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Ken Warwick who has been American Idol's executive producer and showrunner since the show began in 2000 has signed a new three-year deal to stay on the job.
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Executive producer Ken Warwick, who's been with the franchise since its beginnings as England's "Pop Idol," said he expects the phenomenon to get even bigger as it expands across the globe.
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He was series producer for the U.K. show "Pop Idol," which received the Golden Rose for Montreux (the Rose d'Or), a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award and National Television Award for Best Entertainment Program. He has earned eight Emmy nominations for his work on AMERICAN IDOL.
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The organisers of The Royal Tournament, surveying its stagnated tea-time slot, obviously didn't, and have drafted in Gladiators producer Ken Warwick to sex it up for prime-time ITV.
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In a Monday conference call with reporters, [Simon Cowell] and fellow executive producer Ken Warwick of "American Idol" promised that "America's Got Talent" would be different from "Idol."
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