Timothy: sneak peek

Here is your first look at one-off ABC comedy Timothy, screening during Mental As… week in early October.

Starring Stephen Curry, Denise Scott and Peter Rowsthorn it is written by Tristram Baumber, directed by Erin White and produced by Quail Television.

Melinda (Denise Scott) and Colin Garrett’s (Peter Rowsthorn) 35 year old son Timothy (Stephen Curry) has returned to Wollongong. Unfortunately, his homecoming is under less than stellar circumstances, the result of bankruptcy and a mental breakdown in his former life as a corporate high-flyer in Hong Kong.

Apart from permanently sporting an old dressing gown, Timothy doesn’t show many signs of the breakdown that landed him back in Wollongong. Timothy’s therapist, however, insists that he is very fragile.

He drives his mother Melinda up the wall – rearranging her entire household, including the items in the kitchen according to buoyancy. He practices martial arts on the clothes line and only eats freshly killed Silver Carp which has to be procured on the Asian black market.

As much as Melinda would like the therapist to be wrong, she discovers that whenever she tries to gently “nudge” Timothy to change his ways, he is indeed worryingly delicate.

The road to recovery is long. That is, if recovery ever comes at all. And the road is paved with relapses, murdered Silver Carp and grandchildren who may never be able to visit again.

9:30pm Wednesday 8th October ABC.