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27/08/2019
ITV Commissions Kate And Kolo
ITV has commissioned Kate and Kolo, a new 6 x 30 studio sitcom for 2020.
Respected stage and screen actress Brenda Blethyn will take on the title role of Kate in this new comedy with British television, theatre and film actor Jimmy Akingbola taking on the role of Kolo.
Further casting for Kate and Kolo will be announced nearer transmission.
Kate and Kolo centres around a working-class woman who runs an old-fashioned café in a neglected seaside town and who develops a strong, if sometimes volatile, friendship with an asylum-seeking African doctor.
Kate and Kolo is a Hat Trick production. Written by Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton, who will also supervise a trainee writer under the Comedy 50:50 scheme.
Kate & Kolo has been commissioned for ITV by Saskia Schuster, ITV's Comedy Controller.
Respected stage and screen actress Brenda Blethyn will take on the title role of Kate in this new comedy with British television, theatre and film actor Jimmy Akingbola taking on the role of Kolo.
Further casting for Kate and Kolo will be announced nearer transmission.
Kate and Kolo centres around a working-class woman who runs an old-fashioned café in a neglected seaside town and who develops a strong, if sometimes volatile, friendship with an asylum-seeking African doctor.
Kate and Kolo is a Hat Trick production. Written by Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton, who will also supervise a trainee writer under the Comedy 50:50 scheme.
Kate & Kolo has been commissioned for ITV by Saskia Schuster, ITV's Comedy Controller.
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