Danielle Lux

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Né·e le 11/05/1964 à Putney, London, England, UK

It goes without saying that you need to be bold to work in television, but CPL Managing Director Danielle Lux took that advice to the extreme when she carried out a management buyout of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Producers Celador, all while pregnant with her daughter Talia. Lux studied French and Italian at Oxford before embarking on her television career, where her first job was as a reporter on BBC youth shows. She was promoted to producer just a year later by then-boos Janet Street-Porter. After a brief flirtation with current affairs working on Dispatches (I was trying to be something that I wasn’t), in 1993 she was appointed Head of Young People’s Entertainment and Children’s at Granada and LWT, before moving to the BBC as Controller of Entertainment Commissioning, and then Channel 4 as Head of Entertainment. In 2003, Lux was hired by Celador, where as Joint Managing Directo…