UCP Adapting ‘The Lost Kids’, Podcast About Controversial Troubled Teens Program, As Docu-Series
Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: UCP is adapting its debut podcast The Lost Kids, a story about the troubled teens industry, for television.The production company, a division of Universal Studio Group, is developing the audio series into a true-crime docu-series, hosted and produced by Josh Bloch, who created the podcast.It is the company’s latest television adaptation of a podcast following the success of Dirty John, which premiered in 2018 and whose second season aired earlier this year.The Lost Kids investigates CEDU, a program for troubled teens and whose controversial form of therapy has seen it accused of being one of America’s most dangerous cults.