Uh-oh. Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall are fighting. It's the final day of production on season two of Colin From Accounts – the couple's smash-hit romantic comedy about two lonely people brought together by public nudity and a disabled dog – and the atmosphere is heated. Literally heated: it's the hottest day of the summer thus far, the kind of sweltering February afternoon that makes you want to lie down with a wet towel over your face. “Good day for filming in an old car with no air-con,” jokes director Wayne Hope, as he sits in front of the camera monitor. “But they wanted retro!”
Said old car, with maroon leather upholstery and no air-con, is parked outside the Sydney University Business School, which doubles as the hospital where Ashley (Dyer), a 30-year-old trainee doctor, regularly turns up late to work with the slight hint of tequila on her breath. Her new boyfriend Gordon (Brammall), a relationship status minted at the end of season one, is dropping her off
