Prior to this, Ellis spent three years as the CEO of Celador, where he was largely responsible for the spread of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? format, spanning some 100 countries.
He received an out of court settlement from Celador Productions, ITV and five Individuals after claiming they plagiarised his game show format, 'Millionaire', and called theirs, Who wants to be a Millionaire?
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afaqs! intends to get into this niche along with the rest of the major global TV brands- News Corporation, Disney, Viacom, Turner, Sony, Endemol, BBC, Celador among others, who are present in this market and doing very well.
When Original 106 was bought by Celador in August 2008, Martyn was employed as Programme Director to launch The Coast 106 which went on air on October 30, 2008 with a line-up that includes Matt Hopper, Iain Meadows and John Clayton.
Talking Telephone Numbers was a British game show that was produced by Celador and Carlton Television and aired on ITV from 28 February 1994 to 22 December 1997, hosted by Phillip Schofield and Emma Forbes, then later Claudia Winkleman, with Cash Peters appearing in filmed inserts (series one only).