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Tim (Khan Chittenden), a 21-year-old lost in the blissful throes of first love, has a secret about his parents that he's been keeping from his girlfriend Jill (Emma Booth). Lying in bed after a romantic interlude, he finally blurts it out, in tones of doom: "They're entertainers."
What could be worse for a regular guy who's just trying to live a regular life? In Cherie Nowlan's brash but likable Australian comedy Introducing the Dwights (formerly titled Clubland), written by Keith Thompson, Tim is the island of stability in his whacked-out family. His mother Jean (Brenda Blethyn) is a semi-successful comedian, working the clubs with her brassy aren't-men-weird act and letting herself imagine stardom. Likewise, Tim's father John (Frankie J. Holden) is a dreamer, warbling the songs of Conway Twitty on self-produced CDs. Long estranged from her ex-husband, Jean lives with Tim and her younger son Mark (Richard Wilson), a developmentally disabled teen.
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