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.