Car Share

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.

I must say I'd been dreading the moment that finally did arrive in Peter Kay's Car Share last night. The moment, that is, when romance might finally overshadow Kay's usual sharply-observed knockabout, as it has been threatening to for some time. I knew that, sooner or later, something was going to give in the ever-closer friendship of John Redmond (Kay) and Kayleigh Kitson (Sian Gibson). John was dreading it too, but I was certainly relieved that "the moment" when she tells her co-worker, in terms, that he is "the one" was handled so gracefully. Comedy and romance don't often mix readily, like the contents of a pot noodle, but in Car Share somehow the writing and acting transcended the usual rom-com gruesomeness. For that, and a fleeting appearance of a Bolton lollipop lady in an emerald green burka, the BBC must give Kay, Gibson and the bright red Fiat 500L another outing. But please - no schmaltz.

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.

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?

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.