Celebrity Juice and Carshare

Celebrity Juice and Carshare

Time, Date and Channel 

Celebrity Juice

Celebrity Juice is usually on at 10pm on a thursday night. This doesn't count for special episodes. Celebrity Juice is either on ITV or ITV2.

Carshare

Carshare was initially on BBC Iplayer, it was one of the first of many series to go straight onto Iplayer. It then went onto BBC1, where it was aired every Wednesday at 9:30pm. 

BBC

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Our vision

To be the most creative organisation in the world.

Our values

• Trust is the foundation of the BBC: we are independent, impartial and honest.
• Audiences are at the heart of everything we do.
• We take pride in delivering quality and value for money.
• Creativity is the lifeblood of our organisation.
• We respect each other and celebrate our diversity so that everyone can give their best.
• We are one BBC: great things happen when we work together.

The Royal Charter and Agreement also sets out six public purposes for the BBC. See Public purposes.

Keith Lemon

Keith Lemon

Keith Lemon is a fictional character played by Leigh Francis. In a 2006 interview with The Guardian, Leigh Francis said that Keith Lemon is loosely based on his best friend (whose name is also Keith Lemon). Lemon is easily distinguished by his Yorkshire accent, bleached hair, ginger moustache and fake tan.

Shows

Whatever I Want (2000)

Bo' Selecta! (2002-06)

Celebrity Juice (2008-)

Lemon La Vida Loca (2012-13)

Through the Keyhole (2013-)

The Keith Lemon Sketch Show (2015-16)

Celebrity Juice 

Celebrity Juice was a series made by Leigh Francis and it took off straight away. Audiences loved the show and it still goes on to this day. Celebrity Juice is the show that made Keith Lemon a household name and popularised his quotes like "Ooosh, bang tidy!". The show contains a lot of sexual, transgressive pleasures which is why it    As Keith Lemon became more mainstream, he became a presenter for shows like Through The Keyhole.

Panel Show - Celebrity Juice

Celebrity Juice

Celebrity Juice is a panel show hosted by Keith Lemon and team leaders Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton. The show consists of two teams go head to head in some quite questionable games. In Celebrity Juice the aim is not particularly to win but to have jokes and banter between the teammates. 

On each team they have two guests who participate in the games which usually creates some interesting situations which is the main source of comedy of the show. Sometimes, when guests are really funny and liked from the audience, they become regular guests and occasional team leaders. For example, Gino D'Acampo and Chris Ramsey. 

Each episode is half an hour long and usually contains three games which each teams can get points from. The comedy in Celebrity Juice relies on spontaneity and jokes that occur in each episode from the games that they play. 

Comedy Panel Show

Codes and Conventions

• Most panel shows have fast, upbeat music 
• They usually have team leaders and contestants each episode
• They have bright backdrops behind the panels
• They have live audiences 
• Usually compete in quizzes or games to win points for their teams 

Episodes

• Episodes are usually 30 minutes long
• Episodes tend to be split into 3 parts, with 2 advert breaks
• There is not much difference between episodes unless there is a special episode

Broadcasting

• Most comedy panel shows are on after 9pm 
• Most comedy panel shows 

  

Peter Kay's Carshare - Audience Pleasures

• Same setting in the car - The audience becomes familiar with the setting and doesn't expect anything different.
• Main plot line each episode is resolved 
• Snowballing in each episode - A joke that keeps popping up during an episode, like in episode 1 where John gets urine on him and it becomes a joke that reoccurs during the episode.
• Transgressive pleasures - When some jokes are borderline offensive
• Anticipation - When you are anticipating what is going to happen in a certain situation
• Innuendos - Jokes that have sexual references in them. Such as the 'dogging' joke in episode 2 where Kayleigh misunderstood dog walking as 'dogging' when it has a completely different meaning.
• Same characters in each episode - The audience gets to recognise all the different characters like John, Kayleigh and 'New Ted'.
• The audience gets familiar with the episodes - They go to work, guess the year of a song, have work and go home. Although it may seem like a bland structure, the target audience can relate to it as they possibly have a similar routine of going to work.
• The audience gets used to the characters' personalities, like John's deep knowledge of songs and Kayleigh's unknown knowledge on slang words like 'dogging'.    
• The radio becomes familiar to the audience as it plays classic songs the would appeal to the target audience. Also, the parody radio adverts become more recognisable to the audience as they take mick out of similar sounding real radio adverts, making it relatable to the target audience.

          Episode 6

In episode 6, quite a lot of audience pleasures take place. For instance, a situation reoccurs from an older episode where Kayleigh is jealous of Rachel talking to John. The joke then carries on when they are in the car and the audience recognises that this has happened before in an earlier episode. This also suggests at the start of a possible relationship between the two, but learn more about this later in the episode.
One part in episode 6 is when John and Kayleigh talk about Cannon and Ball. Cannon and Ball is comedic duo who were extremely popular in the  

Peter Kay

Peter Kay

Early Days

Kay's first TV project was in a 1997 episode of New Voices, a comedy series which showcased rising talent. His episode, "Two Minutes", written by Johanne McAndrew, saw him play a getaway driver as two of his mates attempted to rob a pub of its takings. He won a Royal Television Society award for best newcomer for his episode on Channel 4's Comedy Lab.

Phoenix Nights

Phoenix Nights, which was an immediate hit. Set in a newly refurbished social club run by wheelchair-bound Brian Potter, the first series was filmed in part at St Gregory's Social Club in Farnworth, Greater Manchester, where the exterior, hallways and function suite were used. This is where Peter Kay's career began to sky rocket.

Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere

In 2004, Kay followed the success with Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere, a spin-off of Phoenix Nights. The show featured the bouncer characters from the show – played by Kay and Paddy McGuinness.

Stage Shows

2000–2011: 

Kay has released several DVDs of live performances, including Live at the Top of the Tower, Live at the Bolton Albert Halls (which holds the record as biggest selling British stand-up DVD), Peter Kay: The Live Collections (the previous two combined), Peter Kay: Live at Manchester Arena, and Peter Kay Live – The Tour That Didn't Tour Tour (which was recorded during his fifteen-night sold-out run at The O2 in London).

Present

Since then, he has done voice acting, parody songs and guest appearances on shows on the BBC.

Peter Kay's Carshare

Situation Comedy

Peter Kay's Carshare

Peter Kay's Carshare is a British sitcom which stars Peter Kay and 

Sian Gibson. The sitcom has won numerous awards for best comedy.

Who is it written by? 

The series is written by Peter Kay, Sian Gibson, Paul Coleman and 

Tim Reid.

When is it on?

It was first available on BBC Iplayer as a complete series and became the most watched series to be released as a box set. Because it was on BBC Iplayer anyone interested could watch it. Then it was broadcasted on BBC One on a friday night at 9:30, this would mean teenagers and adults would be able to watch it while kids would usually be asleep.

What are the codes and conventions of a situation comedy?

• The episodes are usually 30 minutes long.
• The same characters re-appear each episode.
• They are usually in the same setting. 
• They are usually situation led, various mishaps will occur and the episode will be based on that situation.
• The primary plotline is resolved in each episode.
• Sometimes the characters in the show will have cliched saying they will say in every episode.

Viewing Figures

Peter Kay's Carshare became the highest-rated new sitcom to premiere on any channel since 2011.

The figures show 6.85 million people watched its opening episode on BBC One on television, while another 2.5 million viewed it on BBC Iplayer when it was available. 

Critic Review 

Grace Dent said:

Statisticians could prove this with a graph. Gosh, I want to laugh. And many times while watching a celebrated writer's latest labour of love a willing smile will dance around my mouth. Still, a genuine LOL (as the hip things say) is rare.

But I laughed over and over again, loudly and gracelessly, during BBC1's Car Share, Peter Kay's new, pared-down comedy project. Curmudgeonly John (Kay) has been allotted a chipper colleague, Kayleigh (Sian Gibson), as his car-share buddy as part of a corporate bid to save on parking spaces. The rest is simply wittering on. The complete series premiered on iPlayer, drawing a record 2.8 million viewers. I gobbled up the whole series in one afternoon. One serving wasn't nearly enough.

Episodes
The first series contained 6 half-an-hour episodes. The first episode was aired on the 29th of April 2015. There was also a one off Christmas special episode. Sitcoms tend to be short, especially when compared to dramas which are usually an hour long. Sitcoms usually contain comedy that pushes the boundaries and so if the episodes were longer then the humour could get repetitive. So, by keeping it short, the series keeps it's comedic value.