02/15/2026
By Jesse Whittock
Netflix has bagged the U.S. rights to Jack Thorne‘s Lord of the Flies TV adaptation.
It’s a major acquisition for Netflix, as several potential buyers were understood to be keen on the buzzy drama series, which comes from Sony-owned Eleven Film and Thorne’s One Shoe Films and is for the BBC in the UK and Stan in Australia.
We’ve got word the deal is one of a glut distributor Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has snagged for the show, as the U.S. studio prepares for the London TV Screenings later this month.
The buyers are Sky (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy), CBC (English-speaking Canada), Radio-Canada (French-speaking Canada), TVNZ (New Zealand), Syn (Iceland), U-NEXT (Japan), Yes (Israel), Globoplay (Brazil), Telia (Estonia), Telia Play (Lithuania), Tet+ (Latvia), HBO and HBO Max (Central and Eastern Europe and Poland) and beIN (across the Middle East and North Africa).
By Jesse Whittock Netflix has bagged the U.S. rights to Jack Thorne‘s Lord of the Flies TV adaptation. It’s a major acquisition for Netflix, as severa