Eleven (company)

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Eleven Film
Subsidiary
Industry Television
Film
Genre Scripted
Non-scripted
Founded 2006; 18 years ago (2006)
Headquarters 14–18 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 8BD
Key people
 Jamie Campbell
Joel Wilson
Carissa Hope Lynch
Parent Sony Pictures Television (2020–present)
Website elevenfilm.com

Eleven is a British television production company founded by Jamie Campbell and Joel Wilson and owned by Sony Pictures Television. It was formed in 2006 and was the first drama production company to benefit from the Channel 4 Growth Fund, set up to nurture independent creative companies based in the UK.

Eleven produces scripted and non-scripted content for the UK and international markets.

History

Eleven was founded in 2006 by Jamie Campbell and Joel Wilson, named so due to the initial number of projects being undertaken by the pair.

The Channel 4 Growth Fund took a minority stake in Eleven in 2014, making it the first drama production company to benefit from their £20m fund.[1]

In April 2020, Sony Pictures Television acquired a significant stake in Eleven Film,[2] including Channel 4's stake.[3]

Productions

Early significant output includes the critically acclaimed,[4] multi-award[5][6] nominated series Glue, an eight-part mystery drama for E4 written by multi-BAFTA winner Jack Thorne,[7] starring Yasmin Paige, Billy Howle, Callum Turner, Charlotte Spencer, Jordan Stephens, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge; Gap Year, a comedy drama written by Tom Basden and the first UK TV scripted series to film in China[8] for E4; BAFTA-Nominated The Enfield Haunting, a drama series starring Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson and Matthew Macfadyen for Sky Living; and BAFTA-nominated Cast Offs for Channel 4.

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Gillian Anderson stars as Dr. Jean Milburn in Sex Education

The company's most successful project to date is Sex Education, an eight-part comedy drama series for Netflix released in 2019 and created by Laurie Nunn. The series received critical acclaim for its ensemble cast, writing, directing, production values, and mature treatment of its themes, with over 40 million viewers streaming the first series after its debut. The series has won two BAFTA TV Awards and the third series won Best Comedy at the 50th International Emmy Awards. Production for the fourth and final season of Sex Education was confirmed to be underway in August 2022 and it premiered on 21 September 2023.

In August 2019, BBC Three commissioned Red Rose,[9] an eight part horror series created by The Clarkson Twins, which was released on BBC iPlayer on 15 August 2022.

In February 2020, it was announced that Netflix had commissioned a 10-part political drama named White Stork to be produced by Eleven.[10] The series' cast was due to feature Tom Hiddleston as lead, with Claire Foy also rumoured to have been offered a role.[11] Production was halted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused scheduling conflicts for Hiddleston.

In May 2022, the BBC and STAN commissioned a new series titled Ten Pound Poms, a drama about the British citizens who migrated to Australia after the Second World War, with filming commencing in Australia shortly after. The series premiered in May 2023 and won Best Series at the 62nd Monte-Carlo Television Festival.[12] In February 2024, the BBC confirmed a second series had been commissioned.[13]

An eight-part mystery thriller, which centres around a young deaf woman, titled I.D., was announced by Channel 4 in August 2022. The series was created by Genevieve Barr. [14]

In September 2022, it was announced that Eleven was co-developing a series adaptation of M.L. Rio's thriller novel, If We Were Villains, with Canadian production company Blink49 Studios.[15]

In April 2023, the BBC announced that Eleven would produce the first ever television adaptation of 1954 novel Lord of the Flies by Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding. The executive producers are set to be Joel Wilson and Jamie Campbell for Eleven, Jack Thorne for One Shoe Films and Nawfal Faizullah.[16]

In October 2023, it was announced that Eleven would be adapting Jeffrey Archer’s best-selling Kane and Abel trilogy.[17]

Paramount+ announced in November 2023 that it had commissioned a new original drama from Eleven, Stags. Principle photography commenced on location in Tenerife the same month. The cast includes Nico Mirallegro, Charlie Cooper, Paul Forman and Asim Chaudhry. David Kerr was announced as lead director.[18]

Drama / Comedy
Year Title Distributor
2025 (expected) Lord of the Flies BBC One
2024 (expected) Stags Paramount+
I.D. Channel 4
2023-present Ten Pound Poms BBC One, Stan
2022 Red Rose BBC Three, Netflix
2019-2023 Sex Education Netflix
2018 True Horror Channel 4
2016 Gap Year E4
2015 The Enfield Haunting Sky Living
Rotters Sky Arts
2014 Glue E4
2013 Mr Understood Sky Arts
2010 Rick and Peter Channel 4
2009 Cast Offs
Documentary
Year Title Distributor
2015 The Secret Life of the Pub Channel 4
2009 My Breasts Could Kill Me Sky One
2008 The Murder of Billie-Jo Channel 4
2007 Being Maxine Carr
Cyberskiving
Make Me A Virgin
Getting to Gordon BBC Newsnight
2006 Candid Cameron

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