Unscripted TV Exec Kevin Fortson To Retire After 30 Years With Warner Bros.
deadline.comKevin Fortson, the Executive Vice President of Production & Administration for Warner Bros. Unscripted Television, will retire this summer after three decades with the studio. “For the past 30 years, Kevin has been an indelible part of Warner Bros,” said Mike Darnell, President, Warner Bros.
Unscripted Television. “His name has literally become synonymous with the company and the lot itself. Personally, I will miss him for his counsel, his friendship and his endless string of dad jokes.
He truly is one in a million … although he would probably try to cut that budget down! He is as important to the studio as any movie or television show ever produced here, and if I had the power to do it, there would be a stage with his name on it, right next to Friends and The Big Bang Theory.
He is known as the unofficial Mayor of the lot, and his constituents will miss him dearly… and no one will ever be re-elected to that position.” Fortson has been leading all aspects of physical production for the studio’s unscripted series slate across Warner Horizon Unscripted Television, Shed Media and Telepictures, including The Bachelor franchise, The Voice, The Jennifer Hudson Show, The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip and Friends: The Reunion and Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, among others.
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