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, American television production studio Sony Pictures Television had announced that they've invested a deal to acquire a significant stake in Eleven Film. The deal to acquire a stake of Eleven Film that could include Channel 4's 20% stake in the company and would expand Sony Pictures Television's British television operations and their drama production output.[2][3] Two months later in June of that same year, American television production studio Sony Pictures Television announced that they've acquired a majority stake in Eleven Film, thrus expanding Sony Pictures Television's drama production operations and their British television production outfit with Channel 4 dropping their 20% stake in the company.[4][5][6]
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. 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,[12] 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.[13] The series' cast was due to feature Tom Hiddleston as lead, with Claire Foy also rumoured to have been offered a role.[14] Production was halted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused scheduling conflicts for Hiddleston.
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. [17]
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.[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.[19] Filming was confirmed to be underway in Malaysia in September 2024.[20]
