Channel 4 Orders Porn Industry Drama ‘Adult Material’, Sheridan Smith To Star
Channel 4 has given the greenlight to Adult Material, a four episode drama series from The Smoke creator Lucy Kirkwood about the porn industry. Sheridan Smith (Cilla, Dates, The Moorside) is attached to star. Adult Material follows Jolene Dollar, who has been working in the porn industry her entire adult life and has seen it grow from a seedy backroom enterprise to a legitimate and highly profitable arm of the telecommunications business. One day on set, Jolene is introduced to 19 year old Amy. She looks after Amy the way that she looks after every new girl on set, but she can’t protect Amy from her own choices. 
Catch-22 will be crossing the pond. Channel 4 has boarded Hulu's event series, which is based on the Joseph Heller novel and hails from George Clooney, after striking a deal with Paramount Pictures Worldwide Television Licensing & Distribution. Under the pact with Paramount, rather than being a straight acquisition, Channel 4 is contributing to select aspects of the development of the project. Catch-22 will premiere on this side of the pond in 2019, shortly after it debuts state-side. 
The third season of Channel 4's co-production Humans will premiere on Thursday May 17th at 9pm, it has been announced. 
Channel 4 is re-teaming with Jamie Oliver. The broadcaster has renewed Jamie’s Quick & Easy Food for an expanded eighteen episode second season and given the greenlight to food travelogue series Jamie Cooks Italy. 
Channel 4's newest comedy series High & Dry will premiere on Friday May 4th at 10:30pm, it has been announced. 
Channel 4 is teaming up with Mo Gilligan and Tiger Aspect Productions for a new entertainment format. The broadcaster has handed out a pilot order to Mo's Town, hosted by Gilligan and produced by the Ripper Street indie, which will be a mix of comedy, sketches, music, celebrity guests and audience interaction. 
Channel 4 has given the green-light to The Interrogation, a one-off factual drama that is set to explore the "missing part" of the story of Tony Jordan, who who was sentenced to life after shooting dead 16 year old burglar Fred Barras in 1999. Whitechapel star Steve Pemberton is attached to star. 
Channel 4 has released the trailer for the fifth season of Friday Night Dinner, which is set to premiere on Friday May 4th at 10pm. In the show’s fifth season Mum and Dad get a hot tub, much to the horror of Adam and Jonny, Adam accidentally sets his car on fire, Jonny won’t stop prank-calling Adam, Dad becomes obsessed with his old, terrifying ventriloquist dummy, Mum organises her own, terrible surprise party, Jim goes on a date from beyond hell, Horrible Grandma comes back for more horribleness – and the family have dinner.