Key points

• Jenna Elfman recently joined the cast of Fox’s The Interrogator.

• Elfman has been a recurring star on ABC’s Shifting Gears.

• The actress explained how her new show will affect her involvement with the hit sitcom.

Jenna Elfman is joining a new show on Fox — but that won’t necessarily affect her tenure on ABC’s Shifting Gears.

After being announced as a cast member on the upcoming series The Interrogator, Elfman told Us how her new gig will impact her ability to portray Eve Drake, the love interest to Tim Allen‘s Matt Parker, on the hit ABC sitcom.

“I can go play on Shifting Gears,” Elfman said at the Fox Upfronts on Monday.

The Interrogator will see Stephen Fry portray an MI6 agent whose “charm, superior intellect and mind-bending behavioral maneuvers make him the only man able to lockpick the minds of the world’s most dangerous criminals,” according to the official logline for the series.

During her conversation with Us, Elfman pitched bringing a Shifting Gears costar onto her new show as a special guest. “[Having Tim Allen on] would be very entertaining,” she said. “He’s very funny and I think Stephen interrogating Tim Allen [would be cool].”

Elfman’s last appearance on Shifting Gears came in the season 2 finale in February, in which Eve invited Matt to join her in her travels to Barcelona. The series’ showrunner Michelle Nader said that she still has big plans for Elfman’s character in future episodes of the show.

“I promise you there will be more Jenna Elfman [on the show] as long as I’m alive,” she told The Wrap in February. “Jenna, she’s so magical on and off the screen.”

Nader explained that she wanted to give Allen the opportunity to date on screen, but also didn’t want to brush past his character’s grief for his wife, who died prior to the events of the show.

“The idea of watching Tim Allen dating on a sitcom, you’ve never seen that. This is his third sitcom,” she reflected. “I really believe that Matt loved his wife, and it’s hard for him to start something with another and to be in love. So we really wanted some time to pass and really make this a mature decision. That’s why we did this back and forth.”

Elfman, who appeared in three episodes of season 1 and seven episodes of season 2, previously told Us about her enthusiasm for Shifting Gears.

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“I’m loving doing the show. I love working with everybody on it. I love the showrunner. It genuinely is like I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop because I can’t believe how good it is,” she said. “I have to say I’m blown away by the writing this year. They’re writing for each actor and for their character so well. The stories are sincerely hilarious. Like, at work, we’re all doubled over laughing repeatedly.”

Season 3 of Shifting Gears will premiere on ABC in 2027.

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