Ken Warwick
Ken Warwick
Ken Warwick is a British television executive producer and director, most noted for producing the reality television series American Idol, and Pop Idol. Before being a producer he was a dancer, previously being a member of The Young Generation. Warwick has received numerous awards for his television programs including a BAFTA, the Golden Rose of Montreux, a National Television Award, and has been nominated for eight Emmys. Ken lives in Beverly Hills and London, and has three children, Joe, Gracie...
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When they go to school the next day, it's become the show to watch, and if they haven't seen it, they've got a problem.
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We've asked this question ourselves time and time again.
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Why should you take a drop in money?
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We always know when we go to big cities we're going to get some of the crazies. Down South we're going to get some real talent that still has rough edges.
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We want a singer who's going to be around in 10 years' time, and the only way that you can guarantee that is to throw everything at them. We don't want a one-trick pony.
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I don't make any excuses for that, either. The reason why we have such a wide demographic is the mums and dads go, 'I remember that song from back in the '70s. That was a great song.' A lot of great music was around in those times and we want to appeal to everybody.
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It absolutely breaks my heart, coming from Liverpool as I do, that I can't play a single Beatles song, absolutely drives me nuts.
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There's a lot of really good singers we were turning down because of the age limit, and we realized it was silly. You're certainly not over the hill by 28.
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Austin is very good compared to the others. The talent is very good there, which is why we keep coming back.
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No one can say that guy wasn't entertaining.
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One, we don't need to these days. There's a queue from the record companies, as you can probably imagine because we have 30 million people-plus each week tune in, and so we don't need to go hunting, as it were.
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It's good fun and it gives validity to the program. You need the bad singers to give the good singers attention.