Mark Thompson (television personality)

Mark Thompson is a two-time Emmy award winner for writing, hosting and producing specials for the Fox Television stations.

Career as weatherman

He was the on-air nightly weather anchor and lifestyle reporter for KTTV FOX 11 in Los Angeles. Since he started appearing on Channel 13 (the Fox owned sister station of Channel 11 in L.A.) Thompson was known for dancing during the weather reports on the 11 PM newscasts. Thompson said he did it on a whim but when email reaction was so enormously positive he kept it going. It quickly gained not only a local following but nationwide attention as well. He was featured Jimmy Kimmel Live on October 5, 2006 and on Brit Hume's program on Fox News Channel among others. He left both stations as of June 3, 2011 when his contract was not renewed. He made no on-air announcements of his future plans as a weather anchor.

Prior to working in Los Angeles, Thompson worked as a weather anchor for KRON-TV, then an NBC affiliate in San Francisco. He previously served as an on-air weather anchor and science/environmental reporter at KMGH-TV, the ABC affiliate in Denver, Colorado, and worked at WKBW-TV, the ABC affiliate in Buffalo, New York. Mr. Thompson ended his roughly twenty years on FOX 11 in KTTV Los Angeles on June 3rd, 2011.

Career as television host

Mark Thompson will host the "red carpet" arrival show for the upcoming Emmy Awards on Fox Television. (Sept 2011)

Thompson hosted Hole in the Wall, with Brooke Burns for Fremantle Television. The show aired on Fox during 2008-2009.

Thompson also hosted the weekly entertainment program That's So Hollywood and was one of the primary fill-in hosts on Good Day L.A., Fox's highest rated Los Angeles morning show. In addition, he also hosted Guinness World Records Primetime for three seasons on the Fox network and those familiar with the genre will remember him as the host of When Good Pets Go Bad and the voice of many of the edgy Fox primetime reality shows.

Other work

As a producer, Thompson was a creative partner in NEXT entertainment and responsible for a number of shows from that company but most notably was the first person to pitch The Bachelor to ABC, though he credits his business partner at the time, Mike Fleiss, with the idea itself.

Thompson has been seen as a reporter, an anchorman and even a moderator of presidential debates in feature films like Set It Off, The Day After Tomorrow and The American President to television shows like 24 and Ghost Whisperer.

Thompson has been called one of the leading voices in reality television as his voice-overs were heard in the earliest days of reality TV and are still heard on shows like American Idol, Paradise Hotel and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? to The Simple Life, and Don't Forget the Lyrics. He was also the announcer on former Fox game shows Greed and It's Your Chance of a Lifetime.

Thompson is also the musical vocalist for the So You Think You Can Dance television show theme song for all versions of the show worldwide, and he is also the announcer for the US version of the show.

As of December, Mark is the narrator on Conspiracy Theory on TruTV as well as Top 20 and Most Daring on TruTV.

Also he can be heard narrating for TruTV's 'Most Shocking Videos'. At times on holiday weekends, these shows are shown in a mini-marathon session.

Personal

He is a native of Washington, D.C., where he attended Georgetown Day School and then graduated from Colgate University. He also studied at Oxford University in the United Kingdom.

Thompson is a regular on the charity and fund raising circuit. He is an active supporter of many philanthropic enterprises with a concentration of support in the areas of education, autism awareness and research, and environmental and animal related charities.

External links

www.markthompsononline.com

• Mark Thompson at the Internet Movie Database

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