PORN KING: THE RISE & FALL OF RON JEREMY

10PM, CH4 ★★★

The adult film star was set to stand trial in May of this year, charged with 34 counts of sexual assault; the case was suspended pending the outcome of the defendant’s psychiatric evaluation. This new, two-part documentary charts Ron Jeremy’s career – after a middle-class upbringing (his father was a physicist and academic, his mother a book editor), he made his name in adult entertainment, starring in more than 2,000 films over four decades – and looks at how the porn industry itself has undergone seismic changes over the past 40 years. This first episode goes back to the 1970s.