'You can't shut me up!' Vera's Brenda Blethyn quashes past fears of 'saying wrong thing'

express.co.uk:

ITV, she said: "I was due to start Kate and Koji in the studio in January 2021."But there were too many challenges. You couldn’t have a studio audience."She admitted because her character Kate, serves tea and sandwiches all day long, it wasn't workable due to the strict Covid protocols in place."And of course, we had to stay two metres apart," she shrugged."So, the producer delayed it and we’re now filming the second series in January and February 2022.The six-part sitcom released its first series in 2020, following Kate as she runs an old-fashioned café in a seaside town.She develops a strong, if sometimes volatile, friendship with asylum-seeking African doctor Koji, played by Jimmy Akingbola, who also stars in HBO's reboot of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.Although from different worlds, Kate and Koji are similar in ways and fans are eager to see their return..