Peter Kay's Car share










PETER KAYS CAR SHARE

The series was commissioned in 2013 by the BBC and was initially made available on BBC iplayer. Co-writers Tim Reid and Paul Coleman's inspiration for the show included Alfred Molina  and Dawn French in the BBC's Roger & Val Have Just Got In and The Smoking Room. Paul Coleman pitched the idea to Peter Kay who he had previously worked with on Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere.

Kayleigh spilt her urine sample over John’s shirt

Kay’s TV career has rather stalled in recent years. Since his last sitcom – the mediocre Max & Paddy’s Road to Nowhere – went off-air a decade ago, he’s been reduced to patchy one-offs, instead concentrating on money-spinning stand-up tours. Car Share represented a triumphant return to TV form. It premiered on iPlayer last week, just to be gratuitously modern and build word-of-mouth buzz, but this was its debut on “proper” telly.

The winningly simple “situation” was that it followed the commute of supermarket workers John (Kay) and Kayleigh (Sian Gibson), thrown together by a company car share scheme. Set almost entirely in John’s dinky red Fiat, it was reminiscent of Rob Brydon’s heartbreaking tragicomic confessional Marion & Geoff or the tight, sofa-wide focus of The Royle Family.

the first episode aired on the 29th of April 2015 and the second episode airing the day after on the 30th of April and then a new episode being released and week after and so on for the next four weeks until the final episode of the first series was aired initially on the 22nd may 2015. on the 3rd of December 2016 Peter Kay announced that a second series has being commissioned and is due to air in may of 2017.  the first series of Peter Kays car share won the British academy television awarded for best situation comedy in 2016.  the entire first series was briefly released on iplayer where is became the most watched series to be watched that was released as a box set.

Genre - sitcom

Network - BBC

Created by - Paul Coleman and Tim Reid

Written by -  Peter Kay , Sian Gibson , Tim Reid and Paul Coleman 

Producer - Gill Isles 

Starring - Peter Kay and Sian Gibson 

Directed by - Peter Kay

Running time -  30 minutes 

Scheduled time - 9:30pm

Production company - Goodnight Vienna Productions 

Number of series : 1 (series 2 has been commissioned)

Number of episodes - 6 

NARRATIVE PLEASURES 

narrative pleasures such as those of narrative resolution.
Ending with a joke that has been built up over the episode and explodes at the end.
character identification snowballing narrative response comedy.
keyleigh is a dizzy bubbly character with a kids sense of humor. Peter Kay has a dry sense of humor and is funny.
Pleasures of recognition familiarity and anticipation.
some neigh bough seen in window staring at peter Kay with the radio songs playing this was from the superstitious episode.
pleasures of difference within repetition.
they pick her up go to work come back from work. A joke is always getting bigger and bigger as the the episode goes on.
performance unpredictability and spontaneity.
pulled over to talk to stranger. he fell over on the way to the car. keyleigh went out with peter for breakfast.
transgression pleasures.
the dogging joke but she thinks it is dog walking not anything to do with anything sexual. so she has a young insentient mind.
specific pleasures associated with performance or personalities.

Walliams and friends audience and institution

Who commissioned the programme?
Shana Allen and Gregory sharp
Who produced it?
King Bert productions. Linked with the BBC.
What audience is it aimed at? Why?
the older generation like over 30s because of the sense of humour and how they tell jokes linked with that age group for example dad dancing.
Why is it on at that time and on that channel? Link to 'type' of comedy and target audience. 
because it has rude humour and it is not suitable for younger kids so its on at 9 so they don't se it because they will be in bed.
Is it on after the watershed? Why?
yes it is on after the watershed because its not recommended at children and its on or after 9 a clock so they don't watch it.

The type of audience pleasures you need to write about in the exam include:

• narrative pleasures such as those of narrative resolution, 
• character identification, snowballing narrative, suspense, comedy, and so on
• pleasures of recognition, familiarity and anticipation
• pleasures of difference-within-repetition
• performance unpredictability and spontaneity
• transgressive pleasures
• specific pleasures associated with performers or personalities.

AUDIENCE PLEASURES

Being a sketch show, Walliams and friend makes sure to feature a series of audience pleasures, as an example, narrative pleasures like a resolution can please an audience by providing an satisfying/funny ending to a skit. 
As an adult audience, more transgressive humour can be used to satisfy them because instead of hearing the crude jokes as a child and not understanding them, they now understand the reference making the adult feel more aware.

A sketch show also uses character identification and snowballing narrative to link jokes and satisfy an audience. Character identification is used to make the audience become more accustomed to the jokes that a specific character makes and how they behave so the audience vaguely knows what to expect from them. This also links with familiarity and recognition. Snowballing narratives are about keeping the joke going by adding more and more punchlines and witty remarks.