Thompson does about face on BBC 3.

Channel 4 has launched a bitter attack on the BBC's revised plans for new youth channel BBC 3 with a strategy that is understood to have been greenlit by former BBC director of TV and incoming C4 chief executive Mark Thompson, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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