The Lost Kids podcast is getting a true-crime docuseries TV adaptation

Deadline

Universal Content Productions is adapting its debut podcast, which "dives deep into the search for a missing teen, uncovering the dark and twisted business of tough-love programs for 'troubled teens' and their ties to one of America's most dangerous cults." According to Deadline, "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. The program was in the news recently with the launch of Paris Hilton’s documentary This Is Paris, where the heiress revealed she was abused at one of the schools during her teens."