Peter Kay

Peter Kay's Car Share: a rare treat of a sitcom

With series two over and no further episodes on the horizon, we salute funny, warm, clever sitcom Peter Kay's Car Share...

Come on Kay, give Car Share fans the ending we deserve

A festive special - where Car Share Lancastrian lovebirds finally kiss under the supermarket mistletoe - would be just the Christmas gift the nation needs. Pass the Quality Street and cue up that Marillion ballad.

The second run of the brilliant car-set sitcom draws to a close. As it begins, John is leaving his nan at his house to wait indoors for a parcel delivery ("Sky's on, and there's quiche in the fridge"), before heading over to pick up Kayleigh (the excellent Sian Gibson), who has somehow locked herself in her house. Despite umpteen laughs, this is ultimately an episode that deals with some of the bigger issues outside the pair's unusually compact world.

Peter Kay's Car Share restores your faith in humanity

I clutch at John and Kayleigh's potential for happiness as if at straws.

Come on Peter Kay, give us a Car Share Xmas special

We don't need a third series of the BBC sitcom - but surely there has to be one more festive spin left in Forever FM and the Fiat 500?

After debuting as a complete boxset on BBC iPlayer, season two of Peter Kay's superb supermini-set sitcom continues its terrestrial run. John is looking forward to a day trip to Wigan for a full English with an old store manager pal under the pretext of dropping off some work bumf. Kayleigh, however, has other ideas, deftly pulling a sickie from her supermarket shift so they can both reap the benefits of a Dairylea Dunkers 2-for-1 days out offer.

How Guy Garvey's Car Share cameo came about

The writer and star of the BBC One comedy reveals why he wanted the Elbow singer to join the cast for series two.

Peter Kay's Car Share, Episode Four, review

I'm afraid I cracked. I'd seen so many references on social media to the final episode of Car Share from people who had watched it on iPlayer I couldn't handle the tension any longer. I had to watch it. And it doesn't disappoint.

John (Peter Kay) is in designated-driver mode tonight as he ferries Kayleigh (Sian Gibson) to the annual work do - he as a hefty Harry Potter, she a diminutive Hagrid - and back. it is the return leg that really shines because the pair are joined by Elsie from the deli counter (played by the superb Conketh Hill), a brash, waspish transgender woman dressed as an enormous Smurf, blogs a lift home, to John's annoyance. She is wonderful. "They broke the mound when they made Elsie," slurs Kayleigh. "Broke the mound?" says John. "They shut the factory."