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.

• 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 

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.