It created and produced a number of popular light entertainment shows and is best known for the TV format Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Managing director and former 1990s Top of the Pops presenter Adrian Woolfe[3] wanted to buy the television division outright as part of a management buyout with Danielle Lux, but this was split into parts with Lux completing the buy-out of Celador Productions without Woolfe and the rights to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.

[4] As of 2022, CPL Productions is making a new version of You Are What You Eat with Trisha Goddard and Amir Khan for Channel 5 and has teamed up with the Ranga Bee[5] production company to make a six-part comedy series, written and created by Romesh Ranganathan and Benjamin Green for BBC Studios,[6] called Avoidance.

In the last few years, former managing director Adrian Woolfe[37] has teamed up with Claudia Rosencrantz,[38] the person who commissioned Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

originally at ITV, to launch the Studio 1 production company and an entertainment news network called LIT,[39][40][41] which has been available to stream via Peacock since January 2021.