Carshare Research
The writers of Carshare are: Peter Kay, Sian Gibson, Paul Coleman and Tim Reid.
The scheduled broadcast for the programme is on a Friday at 21:30pm.
Codes and Conventions of Situation Comedy:
-Family (central characters of sitcoms)
-Audience (target/viewers)
-Realism (realistic storylines/humor by exaggeration/empathy)
-Timings (length of programme/weekly)
-Sets (domestic/workplace)
-Stereotypes (recognisable/challenged?)
-Simple Narrative (equilibrium, disequilibria, resolution)
-Cast (regular, outside characters to cause disequilibria)
-Canned Laughter (prompts audience to laugh)
The viewing figures for the programme was: 6.85 million on their opening episode, 2.5 million watching on BBC I player
Some of the reviews on the programme were: 'very funny', 'made me genuinely LOL'
There was 1 series and 6 episodes altogether.