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Big Cheese Chart: fresh faces join Channel 4 shortlist

Big Cheese Chart – 8 January
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As news emerges that outgoing chairman Luke Johnson is helping choose its new chief executive, two new execs join the Big Cheese Chart.

Alex Graham, the founder of independent producer Wall to Wall and a former chairman of industry body Pact, David Abraham, the low-profile chief executive officer of UKTV, and Disney executive Andy Bird are understood to be on the list, alongside Kevin Lygo, Caroline Thomson and Lorraine Heggessey, as reported by MediaGuardian.co.uk.

The Channel 4 panel at this stage is not believed to have approached Peter Fincham, neither is Fincham thought to have applied.

• Click here for a full explanation of how the Big Cheese Chart works.

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