Kate & Koji is a British television sitcom produced by Hat Trick Productions for ITV.
The series follows Kate (Brenda Blethyn), a working-class café owner in the neglected coastal resort Seagate in south Essex, who develops a strong friendship with regular customer Koji (Jimmy Akingbola), an asylum-seeking doctor.
[4] Kate (Brenda Blethyn) is a somewhat prickly, working-class woman who runs an old-fashioned café in the neglected coastal resort Seagate in south Essex.
After word gets out, Koji becomes the unofficial general practitioner and holds 'surgery' in the café, racking up customers for Kate, who offers him free food to keep the scheme going.
[6] Interior scenes were shot in front of a live studio audience at BBC Elstree Centre.