Cult podcast My Dad Wrote a Porno heading for US TV

The hit podcast My Dad Wrote a Porno could well be heading to the small screen, following an announcement from the creators at the Edinburgh International Television Festival.

Co-created by James Cooper, Jamie Morton and Alice Levine, the podcast started in 2015 after Morton discovered that his father had written a series of Fifty Shades of Grey-style erotic novels about a saucepan saleswoman named Belinda Bluementhal. Morton started to read them to Levine and Morton on-air, and the podcast sees them react to the work of "Rocky Flintstone". As of February, My Dad Wrote a Porno had been downloaded 100 million times. 

During an event at the festival, Cooper said that the creators had begun conversations with US production companies last year and that an adaptation was on the way, according to Deadline. “We’re doing something for TV in the US,” he said, adding that there had been a previous attempt to make a pilot based on the podcast – thought to be for a UK audience – but it didn't work out. The formal announcement is expected this week.

It's not clear if the adaptation would be a straight scripted order, nor did Cooper specify the network. However, he did say that the team have considered musical and animated versions of My Dad Wrote A Porno.

In the meantime, fans of My Dad Wrote a Porno are celebrating #PornoDay, otherwise known as the beginning of the podcast's fourth series, in which the fourth Flintstone book will be read. People have been urging Kim Kardashian to tune in after the reality TV mogul asked for recommendations of new podcasts on Twitter on Monday morning.

Kardashian would not be the podcast's only celebrity fan: Daisy Ridley, known for playing Rey in Star Wars, joined the trio to record an episode as did Elijah Wood and Rachel Bloom, star and creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.