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THE FOURTH MAN: Channel 4's Mark Thompson reveals his programme plans and how he thinks the channel will fare as an independent sales house.
The life-size cardboard cut-out of Richard and Judy on Mark Thompson's wall injects a shot of colour into the donnish Channel 4 chief executive's otherwise pretty spartan office. It also, perhaps, represents a two-fingered salute to those critics who mocked Channel 4's decision (subsequently vindicated by its audience figures) to poach the king and queen of daytime television from ITV.
Dominated by a massive wall-mounted TV screen and a long table, Thompson won't have his goldfish bowl office for much longer - he has decided to impose an open plan policy across the building, surely one of the easier decisions he's had to make during his time at the station.
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