{"id":3443,"date":"2026-07-15T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/itv-simon-cowells-partner-lauren-making-social-media-drama\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T08:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:41:09","slug":"itv-simon-cowells-partner-lauren-making-social-media-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/itv-simon-cowells-partner-lauren-making-social-media-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"ITV &#038; Simon Cowell&#8217;s Companion Lauren Making Social Media Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: ITV and Oscar-nominee Jeff Pope are teaming on a drama inspecting the devastating impression of social media on kids, an concept that got here to the broadcaster from Simon Cowell\u2019s associate Lauren Cowell. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe as-yet-untitled collection will comply with the story of a number of households and campaigners together with Ellen Roome, who believes that the tragic dying of her beloved 14-year-old son Julian \u2018Jools\u2019 Sweeney may have been linked to dangerous social media. Roome has spent the previous 4 years looking for out why her son died in April 2022 after a typical day enjoying with associates, making it her mission to struggle for solutions from expertise corporations on each side of the Atlantic because the household don&#8217;t have entry to her son\u2019s social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tITV mentioned the drama will \u201cdepict the devastating international impression of social media on kids and study the extent to which expertise corporations are in a position to evade duty and scrutiny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHaving campaigned alongside Roome and different households, Lauren Cowell approached ITV with the thought some time again and the present comes from Pope\u2019s ITV Studios-backed Etta Photos in affiliation with documentary indie Featuristic Movies. Roome, who was initially creating the drama with Featuristic, is consulting and dealing with Pope\u2019s staff all through manufacturing, whereas Lauren Cowell is an EP. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cEllen\u2019s story is likely one of the strongest, heartbreaking and vital tales I&#8217;ve ever come throughout,\u201d mentioned Lauren Cowell. \u201cWhat she and the opposite bereaved households have endured is past devastating, and but via unimaginable grief they&#8217;ve discovered the power to face up, converse out and struggle for change in order that different kids and households don&#8217;t endure the identical ache.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:1024px;\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((664\/1024)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-font-size-12 lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\" lrv-u-font-size-16 lrv-u-font-size-14@mobile-max lrv-a-font-body-m u-font-style-italic lrv-u-font-weight-bold lrv-u-font-family-primary u-line-height-20 u-letter-spacing-0 u-line-height-18@mobile-max\">Bereaved dad or mum Ellen Roome shows a picture of her late son Jools whereas talking on the opening of the \u201cMisplaced Display Memorial\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFrederic J. BROWN \/ AFP by way of Getty Pictures<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRoome added: \u201cThe truth that ITV and Jeff Pope are dedicated to this drama has genuinely given me an enormous sense of hope and reassurance. I really really feel they won&#8217;t solely inform my story, however most significantly Jools\u2019 story, with the care, sensitivity and integrity it deserves. What occurred to Jools modified my life eternally, but when telling his story will help defend different kids and make folks really perceive the fact of what households are going through, then I do know there may be goal in doing this. Thanks all once more for believing on this and for committing yourselves to such an vital story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe present spotlights a subject that has been within the information loads of late. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tUK campaigners have been lobbying for years for tighter social media regulation and final month Prime Minister Keir Starmer introduced a full social media ban for under-16s, which he mentioned will go even additional than the world-first ban in Australia. Extra particulars have been unveiled this morning about plans for a midnight social media curfew for older teenagers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tITV and factual drama supremo Pope have labored collectively lots down the years, most not too long ago on Imagine Me, about \u201cBlack Cab Rapist\u201d John Worboys. For the reason that standout success of Mr Bates vs the Put up Workplace, ITV has continued to often greenlight campaigning dramas like Sheridan Smith-starrer I Fought the Regulation and Peter Moffat\u2019s upcoming present on the contaminated blood scandal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe social media drama is the primary massive ITV greenlight to be unveiled since Sky formally confirmed it was shopping for the 70-year-old broadcaster final week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/07\/itv-simon-cowell-partner-making-social-media-drama-jeff-pope-1236981923\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: ITV and Oscar-nominee Jeff Pope are teaming on a drama inspecting the devastating impression of social media on kids, an concept that got here to the broadcaster from Simon Cowell\u2019s associate Lauren Cowell. 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