We loved absolutely everything about Peter Kay's latest vehicle (the comedy, not the car he drives in the series). It's a simple premise, two work colleagues are thrown together as part of a car share scheme and the comedy is confined to the car as the two travel to and from work each day. Much like The Royle Family before it, it's such a genius premise you can't believe it hasn't been done before. Peter Kay and Sian Gibson played off one another with complete ease. Car Share feels like an instant comedy classic. We just wanted to spend time with John and Kayleigh!

Radio Times review

If you are going to have someone sing your praises then one of the most successful and richest authors on the planet is probably as good a person as any. Harry Potter author JK Rowling was, at the time of going to press, among a host of top names lined up to pay tribute to her friend Peter Kay in this celebration of the Phoenix Nights and Car Share comedian's career.

She will be joined by Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually scriptwriter Richard Curtis and author and broadcaster Danny Baker.

From his childhood growing up in Bolton, to the places, people and foodstuffs ("Garlic bread!") that have influenced his life and work, the profile will chart his rise "to become a household name and national treasure".

Peter Kay's fortune tops £26 million

Phoenix Nights comic sees coffers swell again to make him Britain's highest earning comedy star.

Peter Kay hosts dance marathons

Peter Kay is to host a series of public dance challenges to raise money for Cancer Research UK.

DVD/Blu-ray review: Peter Kay's Car Share

The year 2015 was, amongst other things, the year it became okay to like Peter Kay again.

Car Share wins 4 gongs at RTS North West Awards

Peter Kay picked up four gongs at the RTS North West Awards for Car Share.

Phoenix Nights film not happening says Paddy McGuinness

It's looking unlikely that the Peter Kay-led cast will be coming together for a feature length outing.

The evocative 1970s-set sitcom based on Danny Baker's upbringing in south-east London concludes with a double-bill. With his wavy hair and luxuriant eyebrows, young Danny belatedly realises that his resemblance to heartthrob David Essex might be a good way to pick up girls, while his wheeler-dealer dad Spud (Peter Kay) struggles with the demands of a new job. The cockney incarnation of Kay has been a revelation, but Lucy Speed - playing Danny's mother Bet - is this series' secret weapon, and she gets to shine in an eventful finale.

TV review: Cradle To Grave, BBC2, Episode 7/8

I must admit I thought that Cradle to Grave might not have traded so much on being sentimental and a nostalgiafest, given Baker's obvious sophisticated wit and intelligence. But the former NME writer has gone for a populist touch here and it does work fantastically well. And Peter Kay, of course, certainly has the mainstream touch as amiable rogue Spud, which makes him pretty well cast.