01 Oct 2024
Married At First Sight UK – produced by CPL Productions – has returned to British screens and the reality series has already won the hearts of viewers across the country.
The season premiere totalled 75 million minutes streamed to become the most streamed ever episode of Married at First Sight UK, up 12% YoY. Married at First Sight UK is also the No 1 title across all Commercial BVOD since launch with 557m minutes viewed.
This week Married at First Sight UK is also introducing a brand-new ‘In Laws’ week. The couples already in the experiment will be visited by friends and family where they’ll have honest and frank conversations as to where their relationships are.
Married at First Sight UK continues Monday – Thursday at 9pm on E4 with the series so far available to stream on Channel 4.
19 Sept 2024
The Belgian adaptation of The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes (local title: Restaurant Misverstand) has earned an International Emmy Award nomination in the non-scripted entertainment category.
A hit in Belgium across three seasons on VRT, the social experiment is a local adaptation of the Grierson Award-winning format The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes, originally produced by CPL Productions for Channel 4 in the UK.
The format – which has already been adapted in the Netherlands – sees a group of people all living with dementia, spanning different ages and at various stages of the disease, tasked with helping run a restaurant led by a successful chef. Over a five week period, and with a dementia expert on hand to advise, the group takes on all the roles of a busy restaurant, including cooking, taking orders, serving and making drinks.
The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes Belgium is produced by Roses Are Blue for VRT; the format is distributed globally by Seven.One Studios International.
10 Sept 2024
The BBC in the UK has commissioned a brand new version of Seven.One Studios International’s hit adventure dating format Stranded on Honeymoon Island.
The new adaptation of the innovative format is set to be produced by CPL Productions, a Seven.One Studios company and will air in a primetime slot on flagship channel BBC One. This brings the total number of international Stranded on Honeymoon Island commissions to seven, 18 months after the show first launched.
The format, which sees couples matched by experts marooned on a deserted island and left to fend for themselves for three weeks, was initially commissioned by VTM in Belgium, where two seasons have already aired. It has also aired in Portugal (SIC) RTL Netherlands, Czech Republic (FTV Prima) and Germany (SAT.1). A forthcoming adaptation is set to air on Seven Network in Australia.
Stranded on Honeymoon Island was created by Snowman Productions, the creators of dating phenomenon Married at First Sight. The Copenhagen-based production company – part of Seven.One Studios and a sister company to Seven.One Studios International – manages a production hub in Southeast Asia which facilitates the year-round filming of new local versions of Stranded on Honeymoon Island.
Kalpna Patel-Knight, Head of Entertainment at the BBC said: “We are thrilled to be bringing this dating reality format to the BBC. This unique new dating series will see couples who have previously been unlucky in love being paired up and sent straight on their honeymoon with no phone, no apps and no contact with the outside world – let’s see if they can make it work on their desert island and find love.”
Murray Boland, CPL Creative Director said: “We are incredibly excited to be bringing this show to the BBC. It’s a bold and innovative format but it also has heart and soul. CPL takes great pride in the relationship reality formats it produces and Stranded on Honeymoon Island feels like a very special commission.”
Tim Gerhartz, Managing Director of Seven.One Studios International, said: “We are delighted that Stranded on Honeymoon Island has found the perfect home in the UK with the BBC. These major new commissioning milestones underscore our commitment to delivering unique, engaging content that resonates with global audiences to become the new mainstream. Together, we are setting new standards in the formats industry, and we look forward to more international audiences getting Stranded on Honeymoon Island.”
21 Aug 2024
Upon the release of the season one finale, Netflix has announced that Love Is Blind: UK – produced by CPL Productions – will continue to bring singles together for season two next year. The hit unscripted series will return with co-hosts Matt and Emma Willis in tow for another round of the dating experiment, which has been uniting soulmates sight unseen around the world for years.
“The response to [season] one has been fantastic, and we are thrilled to go again on [season] two,” says Daisy Lilley, the Director of Unscripted UK Programming at Netflix. “We’re delighted that Matt and Emma Willis will be back as hosts as more hopeful couples navigate the highs and lows of this unique love experiment.”
And while season one might be near its end, there’s always more to this love story. Casting for the future seasons is now open for UK residents over 18.
01 Aug 2024
CPL Productions, producers of BAFTA award-winning A League of Their Own and BAFTA nominated Married at First Sight:UK, has won best production company at this year’s National Reality TV Awards.
The National Reality TV Awards launched in 2005. TheNRTA became the first awards ceremony in the world to celebrate Reality Television as a whole. 2024 winners were announced during a ceremony in London, on Wednesday, July 31.
04 July 24
Award-winning UK production company CPL Productions, producers of BAFTA award-winning A League of Their Own and BAFTA nominated Married at First Sight:UK, has been shortlisted for best independent production company at this year’s Edinburgh TV Awards.
The Edinburgh TV Awards Ceremony will be held at the festival on Thursday, August 22.
03 July 24
CPL Productions, ‘s hit series Rob & Romesh Vs., produced for Sky Max, has picked up the award for best entertainment programme at this year’s Broadcast Digital Awards.
The awards celebrate the most creative and innovative digital content from across the UK.
14 May 2024
Sky Max and streaming service NOW have confirmed that a brand-new Sky Original series of A League of Their Own Road Trip will hit screens on Tuesday 21 May and this time, the gang are in exhilarating Mexico!
Returning for what will be its eighth season, with episodes set to drop weekly, audiences will hit the road with team captains Jamie Redknapp and Jill Scott, alongside Micah Richards, Mo Gilligan and Maisie Adam, as they explore what Mexico has to offer, as well as take on a number of epic and fun sporting challenges along the way.
Set to be a thrill-ride across the country, the cast will gamely take on activities and challenges – with hilarious results – including joining the world-famous Day of the Dead parade, shooting penalties in front of sixty thousand passionate football fans at CD Guadalajara, fighting fair at a unique Lucha Libre wrestling event, scuba-diving with sea lions, and much, much more.
When the results are finally in, audiences will see the ‘loser’ take part in a terrifying forfeit – a giant bungee swing across the desert canyon.
A League of Their Own: Mexican Road Trip was commissioned by Zai Bennett, Managing Director of Content for Sky UK and Ireland and Phil Edgar-Jones, Director, Sky Arts and Entertainment. The Commissioning Editor for Sky UK is Barbara Lee and the Executive Producers for CPL Productions, a Seven.One Studios company, are Murray Boland, Danielle Lux and David Taylor.
A League of Their Own: Mexican Road Trip airs weekly on Sky Max and streaming service NOW from Tuesday 21 May.
27 March 2024
CPL Productions, ‘s hit series Rob & Romesh Vs., produced for Sky Max, has picked up the award for comedy entertainment at this year’s Royal Television Society (RTS) Awards.
The series stars, comedians Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan, are also nominated in the entertainment performance category.
The RTS Awards are the gold standard of achievement in the British television community. Each year awards recognise excellence across the entire range of programme making and broadcasting skills. The winners will be announced via ceremony in London on Tuesday, March 26 hosted by Tom Allen.
21 Mar 2024
Award-winning production company CPL Productions has been nominated for a total three BAFTA Awards.
Ratings phenomenon Married at First Sight: UK, produced for E4, is nominated in the reality category. Hit Sky series Rob & Romesh Vs. has landed two nominations, for comedy entertainment programme and entertainment performance.
The BAFTA’s are the British television’s highest honours. This year’s juries saw more than 500 voters spend 127 hours participating in 43 juries to decide the nominations. The BAFTA Television awards will take place on Sunday 12 May and will be broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer.
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