Most-requested comedy of 2017

The second series of Peter Kay’s Car Share has, unsurprisingly, becoming the biggest comedy on BBC iPlayer so far this year.

The full series was released immediately after the first episode aired on April 11, and has now received a total of 10.6million requests.

New viewers are still joining the series as the first episode attracted 300,000 new requests after the final episode aired on Tuesday.

Kay said: 'We’ve been blown away by the reception for our little show. All we wanted was to make something feel-good and happy so it’s really wonderful it connected with so many people.”

Shane Allen, controller comedy commissioning for the BBC added: 'The record-breaking response to Car Share has been phenomenal. Audiences have come at the show from all angles - watching on BBC One and as a full series, and to have such enormous figures for BBC iPlayer alone shows how the public have taken these characters to their hearts.'

Published: 9 May 2017