Get your leashes out and your Lancastrian accent primed and ready for more front-seat action with a return to BBC 1 for Peter Kay and Sian Gibson in Peter Kay’s Car Share Series 2. With the success of the first series, which managed to pick up a BAFTA Television Award for Best Scripted Comedy, and the teaser ending of the final episode, it sort of felt inevitable for more from the comedy and the announcement from the BBC confirms it’s dogging time for everyone once again.
Specific details about the series were pretty thin on the ground when the second series was first announce, but as we get closer to the air date (9pm, Tuesday the 11th April 2017) more info as started to surface. There’s obviously nothing about how the ‘will they, won’t they’ romantic knife-edge cliffhanger end to the first series is going to play out, but we do know that things don’t start easily for the former front seat duo as the Car Share scheme has been scrapped.
The story will pick up with buddies John Redmond and Kayleigh Kitson, who closed out the last episode with what looked like the first flecks of amorous electricity caressing the corner of their smackers. The supermarket assistant manager and promotions rep duo put in a lot of hours together behind the wheel and passenger seat of John’s Fiat 500L, but with the end of the Car Share scheme, the burgeoning music mix CD love that was in the air in the final episode of Series 1 looks likely to be much changed for the second outing for them.
However, there’s bound to be more random chat, mixed-up daydream montages and crossed wires if the dogging dilemma, hangover hilarity and devil woman delights of the opening six episodes are anything to go by. While the romance is sort of incidental to the potential of Series 2, it’ll still be one of the big reasons people tune into the show, which we’re predicting to perform even better with audiences the second time around.
Check out our Peter Kay’s Car Share review if you missed the opening series, but in general it’s well worth checking out. It had a great soundtrack and a lot of funny jokes and great comedy moments that were light-hearted while still pushing at the boundaries of what you’d expect from a mainstream sitcom. Peter Kay also picked up a BAFTA Television Award for Best Male Performance in a Comedy for his role in the show.
Peter Kay’s Car Share Series 2 will be made up of just four 30-minute episodes, compared to the six in the first series, but maybe that just means they’ll be condensing 1/6th more comedy into each one. All of the episodes will be available to binge through as a box set on BBC iPlayer after the air date for episode 1.
The sequel has been written by Paul Coleman, Sian Gibson and Peter Kay with Kay also taking on the directorial duties once again, which sounds like a weird setup, but if it worked with Series 1 then there’s no reason it won’t be another winning formula again.
Both stars of the show are pretty excited about the prospect of a second series with Sian Gibson saying that she can’t wait to be Kayleigh Kitson again, and Peter Kay commenting that it’s going to be a joy working on the second series. Fingers crossed for another belter of a comedy from the man who’s already given us garlic bread, uncle knob head, granny Yoda and the glory of the adult knee slide.
