A tweet on the book’s publisher’s account read: ‘Peter’s hilarious new book will be his first memoir in 14 years and follows his lifelong obsession with watching and working in television.

I handed him a collapsible lollipop stick and said, “It’s 20 minutes outside a primary school – morning and evening”. The Amarillo singer kicked off his residency at the O2 Arena in December, and will continue performing the monthly series all the way through until April 2025 making him the first artist to do so at the venue.A year later, Peter's Car Share won at the National Television Awards but he did not attend to collect the gong.

Kay co-created and starred in the cult British series from 2001 to 2002, playing Brian Potter, the owner of a working men’s club in Bolton. I could record at my own pace and that made the whole experience much more fun as I was able to drift off the subject matter and have a different view about it all these years later. Tickets for the arena tour broke records when they went on sale, with millions being bought in days. V. is a hilariously funny, wonderfully warm journey through the popular culture of the last forty years.As a child, Peter loved telly so much he had an unusual ­Christmas present request — asking for blank VHS tapes rather than games consoles or Scalextric. If you are in Australia or New Zealand (DVD Region 4), note that almost all DVDs distributed in the UK by the BBC and 2entertain are encoded for both Region 2 and Region 4. THERE are few people more obsessed with TV than comedy superstar Peter Kay – so much so that he’s kept every telly guide he’s bought since he was seven.

As a child he had been obsessed with how other ITV regions differed from Granada, poring over the contrasting schedules. It’s familiar standup territory, but Kay’s got a minimalist gift for expressing indignity and dismay – and there’s a great acting-out of a genitally entangled couple making their way to hospital after an unfortunate post-op accident. Parky: Our next guest used to be my warm-up man and he used to say to me, ‘One day I’m gonna walk down those stairs and be a guest on your show’. In fact, I blatantly walked around with my holdall, and nobody even quizzed me about why or what it was.

And, ‘How have Yorkshire managed to wangle a new series of The Incredible Hulk two weeks before any bugger else?