Welcome back to the hilarious romcom I could happily watch until Christmas: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Colin From Accounts

See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source Published: 17:47 EDT, 7 September 2026 | Updated: 18:09 EDT, 7 September 2026 Colin From Accounts (BBC Two) Rating:What a joy. Colin From Accounts, the funniest thing to come out of Australia since Dame Edna Everage, is back — and it’s got wokery in its sights.The romcom, starring and written by real-life husband and wife Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, has been delivering laugh-out-loud gags since it first aired in the UK three years ago.If you’ve never seen it, be sure to catch up with the first two series on iPlayer. As you’d expect of a comedy from Oz, it’s sweary, beery and scatalogical. But at its heart is a charming romance, all the more believable because of the obvious chemistry between the two leads.Brammall, who also stars in the Apple TV police thriller Last Seen from tomorrow, is a shambling, accident-prone, permanently skint bar owner called Gordon.Dyer plays Ashley, a junior doctor wound up tighter than a ball of elastic bands.The pair find themselves looking after a paraplegic Border terrier called Colin. They’re obviously nuts about each other, and the dog is an adorable baby substitute. It’s a simple story with Happy, Waggy Ending written all over it. The romcom, starring and written by real-life husband and wife Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, has been delivering laugh-out-loud gags since it first aired in the UK three years agoExcept Gordon and Ash don’t have any experience with happy relationships, and constantly mess up this one. The last series ended with Gordon down on one knee in the middle of someone else’s wedding reception, humiliating the pair of them with a marriage proposal so gauche, Ash winds up leaving him.The latest episodes leap forward three years, reuniting the pair in a chance meeting. Neither of them can do more than burble and stutter, but they might as well be shouting, ‘I have never stopped loving you,’ because a car pile-up is happening in the background . . . and the duo don’t even notice.Their love affair is one long, clumsy misunderstanding, like that moment when you go in for a kiss and end up butting heads or clashing teeth. I could happily watch them do this from now till Christmas, but this time round the show is also sending up Australia’s obsession with right-on racial politics.And that’s a delight in itself.Political correctness, it’s fair to say, doesn’t come easily to most Aussies. Gordon is completely nonplussed to be confronted by a trainee GP with a clipboard who won’t allow him to discuss any medical problems until he’s filled in an endless questionnaire.First question: ‘Do you need an interpreter?’ That made me laugh so much that I missed the next line and had to replay it: ‘Are you of Aboriginal descent?’‘Obviously not,’ retorts a despairing Gordon, who looks like he could get a sunburn just by walking past a microwave oven.‘It’s not obvious,’ fumes the ultra-woke medic. ‘I myself am five per cent Cantonese.’What do you say to that? ‘Congratulations,’ mumbles Gordon.The fact that all this is happening in front of Ash makes it all the more painfully funny. I’m smitten.