‘Colin From Accounts’ Harriet Dyer & Patrick Brammall Say The Romantic Comedy Was Inspired By A Real-Life Mishap — Contenders TV

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In Paramount+’s imported Australian romantic comedy series Colin from Accounts, the star-crossed lead couple Ashley and Gordon’s meet-cute starts saucy but ends not-so-cute when, spotting him behind the wheel and liking what she sees, she impulsively flashes her nipple; distracted, he accidentally hits a dog, the titular Colin.

And as stars, co-creators and off-screen married couple Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall recounted it at Deadline’s Contenders TV panel, the inspiration for the series sprang from a somewhat similar real-life mishap. “There was a small moment that happened when I was a nanny,” recalled Dwyer. “I was pushing someone else’s child in a stroller and a man took his shirt off and I pushed the stroller into a lamppost.

And I thought, ‘Oh shit – this must happen all the time.’ And I was kind of engaged with the idea of what happens when kind of attraction sparks and a small accident occurs…Especially if something happens, you’ve got to deal with it, like the dog.

Then you’ve got something that two people who don’t have anything except chemistry, they have to deal with it. And that felt interesting to us.” “It sort of flowed from that: these two people have got to deal with this problem,” added Bramwell, noting that the as-yet-unconnected couple are thrown together as they seek medical treatment for the injured Colin. “She’s desperate for him not to be put down, but she doesn’t have any money.