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Kate is a somewhat old fashioned, outspoken cafe owner, her solo customer, Koji is an asylum seeker, and former Doctor, the pair reach an unlikely deal to help out the locals unable to get a GP appointment.

So often you hear the word ITV comedy, and assume unwatchable, unfunny, something along the lines of Babes in the Wood, however, this was actually very funny, I loved the humour, which was a little more cutting than we've had from shows recently.

Very well acted, Blethyn is just so watchable.

A fine start, 8/10.

We just watched the first episode and found it delightful. Pleasant humor and nice characters. Turn on close captions or you'll miss those quiet punchlines.

The opening title theme for Kate and Koji is the song I Only Want to be With You. The Tourists had a hit with their cover in the early 1980s before two of them went off to form The Eurythmics.

The style of the sitcom goes back to the early 1980s. Set in a traditional seaside cafe run by Kate. She does not like four things: Scroungers, doctors, foreigners and posh people.

Koji who nurses one cup of tea the whole day in her cafe is all four.

An asylum seeker making ends meet on £5.55 a day and cannot work as a doctor or as anything else.

However with the help of her nephew Medium Dan, footfall in the cafe increases as people turn up to be diagnosed by Koji.

Obviously writers Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin whose pedigree in sitcoms goes back to the very funny and left wing Shelley back in the 1980s have not suddenly become flagwavers of Brexit Britain.

Kate is a representative of the Daily Mail reading Brexit class. She has no time for BBC Vegan propaganda. However in this episode she takes her first step in a journey in understanding the plight of one asylum seeker.

There was only one problem with the first episode. It was not very funny even with the low bar of being an ITV sitcom. The jokes mainly come from Medium Dan who actually seems to be the more intriguing character.