WITHOUT giving too much away, I have watched to the end of the current series of Peter Kay's Car Share.

There is still one more to be shown on Tuesday night but the BBC put the entire series online a few weeks back and once you start watching it is hard to stop.

I didn't really pay enough attention though and assumed there would be six episodes - so was gutted to discover when I had watched the fourth that this was indeed it for now.

And since we had to wait more than two years for this series alone, it is going to be a long wait.

There are very few shows on at the moment as light and genuinely funny as this one.

The only positive about there being just four episodes is it will be well worth watching them again in order to catch some of the missed comedy gems and nuances you might not have noticed first time around.

For a start, the spoof adverts and DJ banter in the background courtesy of Forever FM, are probably worth a comedy of their own.

Sadly they are funnier than Hospital People, which itself started out as a radio show and has just started on BBC1 on a Friday.

It has a lot of top drawer actors lined up in cameo roles, including Sian Gibson, who plays Kayleigh in Car Share so maybe it will improve.

It is hard to comprehend she was working in a call centre, having trained as an actor but failing to make it to the big time alongside her old university friend Peter Kay, when she was asked to re-write the show with him.

He fought to give her the role of Kayleigh, producers wanted a more well-known face, and having not worked for a year on television its subsequent success has opened further opportunities.

Perhaps the fact they are old friends has meant there is an added chemistry between them.

The gentle will-they-won't-they central storyline doesn't overshadow everything else and there are very few watching that would fail to relate to something that happens.

The trip to the safari park this week was pure class, as was Game of Thrones star Conleth Hill's turning up as Elsie, catching a lift alongside Kayleigh after the works do.

Most of us have been the person stone cold sober driving home a carload of inebriated friends or colleagues at some point or other.

I felt John's pain as he tried to make sense of their giggling and slurring.

Hopefully those missing two episodes have been kept back for a Christmas special.