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American Idol Reporters Conference Call with Ken Warwick

By On 04/20/2011 · 93 Comments · In American Idol, American Idol 10, Ken Warwick

Some interesting stuff in today’s conference call with Idol executive producer Ken Warwick. He talked about possibly limiting text votes next year (though I’m not holding my breath on that one) and maybe allowing the judges to have a hand in who goes home. Ken says that social networking has contributed to the “mums and [...]

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Change is Coming to American Idol Say Producers: No More Genre Themes, Timbaland To Work with Contestants

By On 09/22/2010 · 188 Comments · In American Idol, American Idol 10, Jennifer Lopez, Jimmy Iovine, Ken Warwick, Nigel Lythgoe, Randy Jackson, Steven Tyler

There was a press conference with  newly-announced judges, Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler and new in-house mentor, Universal Music Group’s, Jimmy Iovine.

Also there were producers Nigel Lythgoe, Ken Warwick, and Fox chief Mike Darnell

There are some changes coming to Idol. See the highlights below. I also heard that the [...]

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Jessica Simpson Approached by American Idol? And More on Nigel Lythgoe’s Return

By On 07/27/2010 · 34 Comments · In American Idol, Ken Warwick, Nigel Lythgoe, Simon Fuller

The latest Idol rumor comes from Courtney Hazlett of MSNBC, whose gossip isn’t always reliable, so I would keep this item firmly in the RUMOR column. She reports that Jessica Simpson has been approached by Idol for a judges slot, but nothing has been confirmed yet.

Simpson would not be taking Simon Cowell’s [...]

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Lythgoe Will Return To Idol, But Only As CKx Rep, According to Report

By On 07/27/2010 · 10 Comments · In American Idol, Ken Warwick, Nigel Lythgoe

The Wrap is reporting that Nigel Lythoe will return to Idol, but not as Executive Producer.

Lythgoe’s childhood friend and frequent producing partner Ken Warwick told TheWrap late Monday evening that Lythgoe is in talks to sign on as “CKX’s representative on the show.”

Warwick, “Idol’s” executive producer, told [...]

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Hall and Oats, Chicago and Bee Gees to Perform on Finale?

By On 05/22/2010 · 114 Comments · In American Idol, Ken Warwick, Matt Giraud, Nigel Lythgoe

There’s a rumor on twitter that Hall and Oats, Chicago and the Bee Gees will be performing on the finale.

Of course, I went on a little search to find out the source of the rumors (these things always tend to be twitter related) and it turns out that Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick spilled [...]

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