Colin From Accounts Is The New Romcom Show You Need In Your Life

You need to hear the real-life love story behind the show...

Colin from Accounts

by Rhiannon Evans |
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It's the eternal question - not, 'What's the meaning of life?' but 'What should I watch next?' Shortly followed by 'What can I watch next as that half hour palette-cleanser show I like to watch before bed?'

The answer is Colin From Accounts.

Fans of Starstruck will love this new comedy, which shares its warmth, odd meet-cute and actually believable characters, mixed with an unashamed romantic vibes with Rose Matafeo's comedy, which was also available on iPlayer and got a word-of-mouth following. And it's not just the Antipodean link.

The show sees characters Ashley and Gordon (no, neither are called Colin) meet in a meet-cute that we'd love to describe to you to entice you in - but also feel like it shouldn't be spoilered, so we won't. The rest of the eight half-hour episodes follow the couple through a will-they, won't they arc that feels familiar enough to be comforting, but unfamiliar enough to keep your interest. And the supporting cast are hilarious and fully-rounded too.

The show was written by the stars - Harriet Dyer (who plays Ashley) and Patrick Brammall (who plays Colin) who are also a real-life couple. We don't know why this makes the show both 100 per cent more adorable, but also approximately 200 per cent funnier (especially the age-gap digs).

Comedy actors Harriet and Patrick met in August 2017 on the set of comedy series, No Activity, and in March 2021 they got married just five days after getting engaged. The couple adopted their first child, a daughter, later that year.

The pair currently live in LA, where Harriet is filming US sitcom, American Auto. Which made filming the show in Sydney even more complicated. In an interview with the Sydney Herald, Harriet said: 'We had a little baby and we were in Airbnbs around Sydney, which we kept moving for some reason. It was crazy. It was a lot, but we had no one to blame but ourselves. It was a dream come true and our dream was a very exhausting one.'

The show is a full family affair - it's dedicated to Dyer's grandmother Joan and her old family films make up some of the opening titles, including a shot of her sister being knocked over by a dog.

However, the couple claim that the couple isn't just based on them.

'Not at all,' Dyer told The Sydney Morning Herald. 'We enjoy that there’s comedy in our age gap. For a minute there, he was 41 and I was 29, which is what Gordon and Ash are for most of this season. But when he was 41 and I was 29, I was like, ‘This is so f---ed up.’ There’s a whole decade between us. On paper this looks bad. We’re missing this decade where so much happens.

'I feel like I’m in my 40s by proxy and suddenly I’m drinking tea on the couch. I had a bit of a moment. I was like, ‘Do I get my 30s? What is my 30s? Do they exist?’ So that was the only thing we really wanted to steal.'

And if you make it to episode seven, you'll see how that plays out...

Colin From Accounts is available on BBC iPlayer now.

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