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EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Elfman is to play Stephen Fry’s leader and handler successful Fox play bid The Interrogator.
Elfman, who precocious starred successful 3 seasons of AMC’s Dark Winds, is nan latest prima to subordinate nan series, which was handed a 12-episode straight-to-series bid for nan 2026-27 play earlier this year.
She joins nan likes of Luke Kleintank and Michael Beach arsenic a bid regular successful nan show.
The series, which comes from Lionsgate Television and Fox Entertainment Studios, is written, exec produced by and stars British comedian Fry.
Fry plays erstwhile MI6 supplier Conrad Henry. When accepted methods person failed, Henry’s quirky charm, superior intellect and mind-bending behavioral maneuvers make him nan only man capable to lockpick nan minds of nan world’s astir vulnerable criminals.
Elfman plays Woodrow, who was a rising prima successful nan CIA, until a ngo gone awry sent her tumbling down nan ladder. Now she finds herself astatine nan D.I.A. arsenic a handler for Henry’s group. She sees it arsenic a demotion — the first measurement connected her climb backmost up to wherever she fell from. She supervises Henry’s cases, pushes him and often quarrels pinch him — Conrad is ever 7 steps up and Woodrow is seldom much than 5 steps ahead. But nan brace person a grudging communal respect that makes for a fun, strange-bedfellows partnership.
The aviator book was written by Fry, pinch revisions from Matt Pyken arsenic good arsenic William Harper. Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie are executive producers and showrunners. Fry exec produces alongside William Harper and Paul McGuigan, who will besides direct, arsenic good arsenic Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman and Miriam Mintz, Matt Pyken, Neil Burger and Anonymous Content.
Elfman’s different caller credits see 2 seasons of ABC’s Shifting Gears, wherever she played Tim Allen’s emotion interest. She is champion known for starring arsenic Dharma successful ABC’s Dharma & Greg and arsenic June Dorie successful six seasons of AMC’s Fear The Walking Dead.
Elfman is repped by WME, Artists First, Latham & Watkins.
