Ron Leshem and Hagar Ben-Asher’s Bad Boy heads to streamer in global deal

Netflix has taken the global rights to the latest drama from Euphoria creators Ron Leshem and Hagar Ben-Asher. 

The streaming giant will launch Bad Boy in its 190 territories in 2025 as an original, after a first run on Israeli broadcaster Hot.  

Inspired by a true story, eight-part Bad Boy revolves around Dean, who was held in a juvenile detention facility as a youth and befriended a mysterious teenage prisoner serving time for murder. 

Two decades later, Dean is a successful comedian, desperately trying to keep his youth imprisonment a secret. Bad Boy stars Daniel Chen, Havtamo Farda and Guy Manster. 

The series is created by showrunner Leshem (Euphoria, Valley of Tears), writer and director Ben-Asher (The Slut, Mish’olim and Dead Women Walking), and Chen, Roee Florentin, Moshe Malka, Amit Cohen and Daniel Amsel. Joining Ben-Asher on the writing team are Leshem, Chen, Malka, Cohen and Amsel. 

Bad Boy is produced and co-financed by Peter Chernin’s The North Road Company, Israeli indie Sipur – the two companies are also collaborating with Hot and Endemol Shine Israel on original medical thriller Heart of a Killer – and Tedy Productions.  

Producers are Jan Frouman for North Road, Emilio Schenker, Michael Schmidt and Gideon Tadmor for Sipur, Guy Levy, Mirit Toovi and Ori Gal for Hot, Tmira Yardeni and Meital Cohen for Tedy, alongside Kristin Jones, Leshem, Ben-Asher and Chen.