Eleven (company)

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.

[4][5][6] Early significant output includes the critically acclaimed,[7] multi-award[8][9] nominated series Glue, an eight-part mystery drama for E4 written by multi-BAFTA winner Jack Thorne,[10] 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[11] 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.

The company's most successful project to date is Sex Education, a four series drama for Netflix released in 2019 and created by Laurie Nunn.

[13] The series' cast was due to feature Tom Hiddleston as lead, with Claire Foy also rumoured to have been offered a role.

[18] 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.

Gillian Anderson stars as Dr. Jean Milburn in Sex Education