After three years as a record promotions executive (1973 - had top three records in USA Charts in one week) in both New York and Los Angeles, Charles returned to the UK where he managed and published Tony Macaulay (multi Ivor Novello Award winner), the most successful songwriter in the UK in 1976/77, and from there went on to run Noel Gay Music and to manage various pop stars (e.g. Dollar) until the mid '80s.

From 1986 he was one of the producers of Me & My Girl, the award-winning musical (SWET, Tonys) in the West End, Broadway, Mexico, Argentina, Japan.

In 1987 he formed Noel Gay Television with Paul Jackson who were joined by the Managing Director of the BBC, Bill Cotton CBE. Noel Gay Television became the main entertainment supplier for BSB while continuing to produce terrestrial shows for all the major UK networks, as well as The Appointments of Dennis Jennings for HBO, which won the best short film Oscar.

Charles also served for eighteen months as the Television Consultant for Fujisankei Television. In 1991 Noel Gay Television acted as the Consultant to launch the successful Middle East Broadcasting (MBC) Satellite.

In the ITV Franchise rounds Noel Gay Television was contracted to Carlton and Anglia Boards (with Bill Cotton on the Board of Meridian), producing such shows as Frank Stubbs, Dave Allen and The 10%ers for Carlton. Noel Gay Scotland was formed and produced four series of Hububb for BBC1. He formed the highly-successful gameshow format joint venture company Rose Bay with Mat Steiner and Simon Usiskin.

Noel Gay TV with Anne Mensah produced the highly acclaimed The Fear for BBC3.

Pepper Productions is co-owned with broadcaster Trevor Phillips - a production company focused on popular multi-cultural programming and documentaries. The first of these was Windrush, executive produced by Charles, which won awards from the Royal Television Society and an EMMA. Trevor and Charles have recently formed The Equate Organisation - a consultancy specialising in advising major corporate clients in the private sector in all aspects, both social and legal, of racial equality and migration.

Trevor is Chair for the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Formed Noel Gay Media with Etienne De Villiers and Brandissimo (USA) - their first project is an animated film with Manchester United Football Club.

Noel Gay Motion Picture Company has the rights for Rachel Caine's Morganville hit cult vampire book series for Film, TV and Multimedia Production.

Grant Naylor continues to exploit the International Emmy and Comedy Award winning Red Dwarf, now sold in all major overseas territories. Currently in production with 4 programmes for Dave.