Mark Thompson (TV)

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Mark Thompson (born July(?) 1960) is a two-time Emmy award winner for writing, hosting and producing specials for the Fox Television stations. He is the on-air nightly weather anchor and lifestyle reporter for KTTV FOX 11 in Los Angeles. Thompson also hosted the weekly entertainment program That's So Hollywood.

Mark was a creative partner in NEXT entertainment and 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.

Mark 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 today from shows like Paradise Hotel and Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader? to American Idol and The Simple Life.

Thompson hosted Guinness World Records Primetime for three seasons on the Fox network and fans of 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. Mark has been seen as the reporter and anchorman and even moderator of presidential debates in feature films like The Day After Tomorrow and The American President to television shows like 24 and Ghost Whisperer. He also appeared in the seventh season X-Files episode "Theef" and is credited as "Reporter #2.

Prior to working in Los Angeles, Thompson worked in San Francisco. He previously served as weathercaster 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.

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 England.

Thompson is also known for dancing during the weather reports on KCOP-TV 13's 11 PM newscasts. This has gained nationwide attention, especially on the Jimmy Kimmel Live show on October 5, 2006 and on Brit Hume's program on Fox News Channel.