Peter Kay's Car Share is a British sitcom set around supermarket assistant manager John Redmond (Peter Kay) and promotions rep Kayleigh Kitson (Sian Gibson), and their participation in a company car-sharing scheme. The first series was filmed in and around Greater Manchester: notably Peter Kay's native Bolton; and Manchester, Trafford and Salford. In December 2015, Kay confirmed a second and supposedly final series had been commissioned. It began airing on 11 April 2017. Filming locations for the second series included: Blair Drummond Safari Park, Bury, Burnley, Wirral and Southport. Peter Kay's Car Share won Best Comedy at the 2016, 2018 and 2019 National Television Awards, and the BAFTA TV Awards for Best Male Comedy Performance and Best Scripted Comedy at the 2016 BAFTA TV Awards. The series came to an end in May 2018 when two special episodes broadcast on 7 and 28 May. The first of these, Peter Kay's Car Share Unscripted, was partially improvised but incorporated prepared radio material and visual gags. The programme returned for an audio special in April 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. (en)
Peter Kay's Car Share é uma sitcom britânica criada por Paul Coleman e Tim Reid e estrelada por Peter Kay. Estreou em 29 de abril de 2015 na BBC One. O programa ganhou diversos prêmios como de Melhor Comédia no National Television Awards de 2016, 2018 e 2019, e o BAFTA TV Awards de Melhor Ator de Comédia e Melhor Comédia Roteirizada de 2016. A série chegou ao fim em maio de 2018, quando dois episódios especiais foram transmitidos nos dias 7 e 28 de maio. O programa voltou para um especial no BBC iPlayer em abril de 2020, em meio à pandemia de COVID-19. (pt)
Kayleigh has a lot on her mind as she is moving into her sister Mandy's tomorrow, so the last thing she needs is to be dressed as a blackcurrant for National Jam Week. Luckily John is on hand to give her some encouragement. They decide to have a goodbye breakfast Fat Boy to commemorate their last car share day together. As they drive home, a jealous Kayleigh is annoyed when she discovers Rachel from work has John's number. Kayleigh ponders how much she'll miss the journeys to work with John. The episode features a 1950's faux fantasy sequence to the 1988 song Rush Hour by Jane Wiedlin. After an awkward exchange of gifts, where John gives Kayleigh a novelty heart lamp, and gets a kiss on the cheek from Kayleigh, the episode ends with John playing Pure and Simple by Hear'Say on Now 48, his CD gift from Kayleigh, with a handwritten note telling John she dedicates the song to him. Forever FM Playlist: John Farnham - You're the Voice, Deacon Blue - Chocolate Girl, Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy, Steve Winwood - Valerie, Rick Astley - Cry for Help, Right Said Fred - Don't Talk Just Kiss, Haircut 100 - Love Plus One, Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder - Ebony and Ivory, Joan Jett - I Love Rock 'n' Roll, The Feeling - Never Be Lonely, Amy Grant - Baby, Baby, Jane Wiedlin - Rush Hour, Extreme - More Than Words, Other songs played: Compendium - In The City, Hear'Say - Pure and Simple (en)
John collects Kayleigh, who is still suffering side-effects from a late night partying. They are annoyed when they run into supermarket fishmonger Ray , who they both nickname "Stink Ray". To make matters worse, Kayleigh has a lunchtime date with a Japanese man she has connected to on on-line dating site heartsearchers. She has learnt the language especially, but it turns out Jap Si wasn't even Japanese. John's lovelife comes under scrutiny, and we discover he was engaged to Charlotte but broke it off as he cannot commit. Forever FM Playlist: The Mock Turtles - Can You Dig It, Olivia Newton-John and the ELO - Xanadu, Whitney Houston - How Will I Know, Ini Kamoze - Here Comes the Hotstepper, Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up, Prefab Sprout - The King of Rock 'n' Roll, Boy Meets Girl - Waiting for a Star to Fall, The Smiths - Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want (en)
Kayleigh has had enough of work and fancies a day off but John disapproves of the idea as he has to visit the store manager and best friend Ian "Litchy" Litchfield, at the Wigan branch. Eventually he agrees to ditching work and decides to go to Seaview Safari Park with Kayleigh. As the pair enjoy a picnic in the car, they become startled as monkeys fight and begin to use John's car as a climbing frame. When John and Kayleigh share another moment by the coast, a mysterious yellow substance pours down the windscreen, which John realises is one of the monkeys who has followed them from Seaview Safari on the car roof, urinating on the roof of his car. The baby monkey attacks John and Kayleigh, but they eventually manage to get him in the car, where he causes more trouble. They fail to send him back to Seaview Safari as it has closed for the day. Eventually, John manages to get the monkey collected and sent to a place of safety. Forever FM Playlist: Sophie B. Hawkins - Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover, Wilson Phillips - Hold On, INXS - Disappear, Lloyd Cole - Lost Weekend, Salt-n-Pepa - Push It, Climie Fisher - Love Changes (Everything), The Pretenders - Don't Get Me Wrong, Train - Drops of Jupiter, Edwin Starr - H.A.P.P.Y. Radio, Shakira - Hips Don't Lie, George Michael - Monkey (en)
It's John's Nana Rose's birthday but he's forgotten to post her card. He tries to put things right on the way to work but falls while posting her card, and badly injures his arm. To make matters worse, Kayleigh has agreed to take her niece Chloe and nephew Alfie to school, meaning they will share the car that morning too. When they finish work Kayleigh must drive an injured John home, but colleague Rachel's interest in John and some bad news from her brother Kieran are on Kayleigh's mind. As John drifts off in a daydream, he imagines himself, in a leather jacket and Beatle cut, singing Cliff Richard's "Devil Woman" with Rachel from work as a lithe, cat-suited red devil-woman, dancing tauntingly around him. Both John and Kayleigh's day goes from bad to worse when the car breaks down after Kayleigh fills it with petrol instead of diesel. Forever FM Playlist: Madonna - Cherish, ABC - When Smokey Sings, Kylie Minogue - Put Yourself in My Place, INXS - New Sensation, Stereophonics - Have a Nice Day, Enrique Iglesias - Hero, Boyzone - Picture of You, Cliff Richard - Devil Woman, The Cars - Drive, Aretha Franklin & George Michael - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me), Aztec Camera - Somewhere in My Heart, Donna Summer - This Time I Know It's for Real, Johnny Cash - A Thing Called Love (en)
John and Kayleigh are forced to take the morning off work due to the death of a long-standing colleague, the trolley pusher Old Ted. Kayleigh quizzes John about his funeral, but he says at 39, he's never thought about that. Kayleigh's friendship with her elderly next door neighbour Ken becomes a hot topic when Kayleigh misunderstands the definition of "dogging", assuming it means walking a dog. She insists the new trolley wrangler will never replace Old Ted, but when she sees him, he sparks some interest from her. Forever FM Playlist: They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul, R. Kelly - Ignition, Johnny Hates Jazz - Turn Back The Clock, Duran Duran - Ordinary World, Stiltskin - Inside, Blue - All Rise, Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles, Cyndi Lauper - True Colors, Alicia Bridges - I Love the Nightlife, Laura Branigan - Gloria, Kylie Minogue - I Believe In You (en)
Set the day after Series 2 Episode 4, John arrives at Kayleigh's house at dawn, leaving a present for her with Steve. He drives to work alone, checking his phone constantly for a message from Kayleigh. She opens her present on the bus: It's a Walkman containing an original song from John, which he had stayed up all night to record, as an apology. The song is accompanied by a parody video to Back for Good by Take That. John picks her up from their usual meeting spot. Arriving at work, they admit their feelings for one another, and agree to take things slowly. After work, they dissect a wedding invite from their work colleagues, and treat themselves to a drive-through meal. While stopped at traffic lights, Kayleigh suddenly leaves the car to rescue a hedgehog in the road, causing a traffic collision behind her. As John gets out to help, his car door is knocked off by a passing van. John and Kayleigh ride home on the bus, listening to John's homemade song and holding hands. Forever FM Playlist: Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart, Annie Lennox - Waiting in Vain, Another Level - Freak Me, Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care, Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC2, Joan Armatrading - Drop the Pilot, Wax - Bridge to Your Heart Other songs played: John Redmond & Compendium - Come Back My Car Share Buddy (en)
While John is excited about his new hands-free phone kit, Kayleigh is more excited about the Beyonce concert she attended the previous night. John gets road rage at a school crossing, which causes a builder to rub his egg sandwich into the windscreen when John makes him angry. This results in a visit to the car wash to clean the now dirty windscreen, and while they are there, Kayleigh's unusual fear of water is discovered when she suffers a panic attack. Thankfully, John's support and a daydream to MMMBop gets her through. . During the work shift, Kayleigh falls out with boss Dave Thompson over an incident on fruit and veg, leaving repercussions for the journey home. Forever FM Playlist: Hue and Cry - Labour of Love, Five - Keep On Movin', Hanson - MMMBop, R. Kelly - Bump n' Grind, OMC - How Bizarre, Sydney Youngblood - If Only I Could, Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World, The B-52's - Love Shack (en)
John enlists the help of his Nana Rose reluctantly to wait in for a parcel delivery. Kayleigh can't find her house key and is stuck inside her sister Mandy's house so John attempts to pick the lock with a hair pin before resorting to trying to pull Kayleigh out through a small window, which doesn't go according to plan. John and Kayleigh chat about her favourite film Dirty Dancing and Michael Jackson on their way to work. On the way home from work, Kayleigh keeps asking John if he thinks they are an us, and whether he would like them to see each other more, but he keeps dodging her questions. As the final episode concludes and the pair sit stuck in gridlock, Kayleigh declares her love for John and believes that he doesn't feel the same way, so she leaves the car and gets into a taxi while crying. But she just missed a dedication John had sent in to Forever FM which is his own way of declaring his love for her. In a daydream, John is seen walking and jumping over other cars to the taxi where he finds Kayleigh, takes her hand and tells her he loves her too then they kiss in the road with the other drivers and passengers who got out of their cars cheering. But in reality, in a phone call to Nana Rose, John says that he is 'done' as Kayleigh's taxi starts moving again. It looks like he has given up on her, but has he really? Forever FM Playlist: Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It), Ph.D. - I Won't Let You Down, Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance, Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey - Together in Electric Dreams, Imagination - Body Talk, Billy Ocean - Red Light Spells Danger, Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm, George Michael - Praying for Time, Marillion - Kayleigh (en)
John and Kayleigh are full of high spirits as they head off on their annual works do, dressed as Harry Potter and Hagrid, but things don't go according to plan when John is lumbered with taking both drunk colleague Elsie who is dressed as Smurfette, and a drunk Kayleigh home. Elsie's mischievous nature makes John feel uncomfortable, along with Elsie's constant spilling of store gossip - including some about John and Kayleigh. After taking Elsie home, John and Kayleigh begin to get close but their moment is interrupted when Elsie rings up to say that she has left her inhaler in the car and can't breathe, leaving a flustered John with no other choice but to drive all the way back to her home. Forever FM Playlist: Divinyls - I Touch Myself, JX - Son of a Gun, Livin' Joy - Dreamer, Crazy Frog - Axel F, Urban Cookie Collective - The Key the Secret, Kelis - Milkshake, Fat Larry's Band - Zoom, Minnie Riperton - Lovin' You, Phyllis Nelson - Move Closer, Scorpions - Wind of Change, Spice Girls - 2 Become 1, Martine McCutcheon - Perfect Moment, Madonna - Crazy For You, Champaign - How 'Bout Us, Will to Power - Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley, Brenda Russell - Piano In The Dark - Phil Collins - A Groovy Kind of Love, Donna Lewis - I Love You Always Forever, Scritti Politti - Oh Patti (en)