Kate & Koji
- TV sitcom
- ITV1
- 2020 - 2022
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Sitcom about the owner of a seaside café, and an asylum-seeking African doctor. Stars Brenda Blethyn, Okorie Chukwu, Blake Harrison, Barbara Flynn, Victor McGuire and more.
Streaming rank this week: 4,951
Press clippings
Kate & Koji axed after two series
ITV has cancelled its café set sitcom Kate & Koji after two series.
British Comedy Guide, 18th November 2022Kate & Koji, review
An uneasy mix of old-fashioned sitcom and woke identity politics.
Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 17th March 2022Reviews: Kate & Koji; Bloods
Reviews of ITV sitcom Kate & Koji (2*) and Sky sitcom Bloods (3*).
Carol Midgley, The Times, 17th March 2022Kate And Koji, ITV, review
Okorie Chukwu joined the cast for the comedy's second series, with an asylum seeker storyline made tragically newsworthy in light of the Ukraine crisis.
Ed Power, i Newspaper, 16th March 2022Brenda Blethyn interview
Brenda Blethyn pops up on Zoom with an infectious smile and a giggle. It's a Tuesday, and she's in the middle of rehearsals for the final episode of Kate & Koji Series 2, which films in front of a live studio audience on Friday.
Helen Daly, Radio Times, 14th March 2022Blankety Blank most-watched new TV comedy in 2020
Blankety Blank was the most-watched new British comedy on TV in 2020. 5.2 million viewers tuned in to see the comic game show's revival on Christmas Day. The Graham Norton Show and ITV sitcom Kate & Koji also got over 5 million viewers last year.
British Comedy Guide, 1st January 2021Black panel show Sorry I Didn't Know returns for series
ITV has ordered a four-part series of Sorry I Didn't Know, a panel show about black history, piloted in 2016.
British Comedy Guide, 27th August 2020No joke: ironic racism in comedy is just not funny
From Matt Lucas and David Walliams's Little Britain to Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat, the idea that it's OK to be racist to mock racism is naive and dangerous
Jason Okundaye, The Guardian, 24th July 2020ITV to recommission Kate & Koji
ITV is to recommission its new studio sitcom, Kate & Koji. The comedy stars Brenda Blethyn as a cantankerous seaside café proprietor, and Jimmy Akingbola as an asylum-seeking African doctor.
British Comedy Guide, 2nd June 2020Kate and Koji serves up an odd couple for our times
Interviews with stars Brenda Blethyn and Jimmy Akingbola.
Georgia Humphreys, The Sunday Post, 25th March 2020