Overview

Kate runs an old-fashioned café in a seaside town, and develops a strong, if sometimes volatile, friendship with asylum-seeking African doctor Koji. Although from different worlds, Kate and Koji are similar in ways they do not see for themselves.

Created by Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin

Network

• ITV1

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  Brenda Blethyn

  Kate Abbott

  12 eps

• 

  Blake Harrison

  Medium Dan

  12 eps

• 

  Victor McGuire

  Mr Mulholland

  11 eps

• 

  Rosalind Ayres

  Iris

  7 eps

Themes

• working class
• cafe
• interracial friendship
• seaside town
• sitcom
• asylum seekers
• workplace comedy

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