Comedy Programmes: Carshare

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.