{"id":333736,"date":"2026-05-13T03:40:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=333736"},"modified":"2026-05-13T03:40:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:10:47","slug":"jenna-elfman-addresses-shifting-gears-future-after-exit-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/jenna-elfman-addresses-shifting-gears-future-after-exit-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenna Elfman Addresses Shifting Gears Future After Exit Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Jenna Elfman<\/strong> broke her silence after her recent show hinted at a possible exit from <strong>Tim Allen<\/strong>\u2018s <em>Shifting Gears<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the Fox Upfronts on Monday, May 11, Elfman, 54, confirmed exclusively to <em>Us Weekly<\/em> that her joining<em> The Interrogator<\/em> as a series regular opposite <strong>Stephen Fry<\/strong> wouldn\u2019t interfere together with her role as Eve on the hit ABC sitcom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can go play on Shifting Gears,\u201d she revealed to <em>Us<\/em> before suggesting a possible cameo on the Fox project from her <em>Shifting Gears<\/em> love interest. \u201c[Having Tim Allen on] can be very entertaining. He\u2019s very funny and I feel Stephen interrogating Tim Allen [would be cool].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>News broke earlier this month that Elfman has a brand new show within the works. In response to the official synopsis, Fry will play a former MI6 agent Conrad Henry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen conventional methods have failed, Henry\u2019s quirky charm, superior intellect and mind-bending behavioral maneuvers make him the one man in a position to lock-pick the minds of the world\u2019s most dangerous criminals,\u201d the outline teased.<\/p>\n<p>Elfman, meanwhile, will portray Woodrow, who&#8217;s a \u201cformer rising star within the CIA whose profession was derailed by a mission gone awry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow stationed on the DIA as a handler for Henry\u2019s team, she views the post as a demotion \u2014 and step one in clawing her way back,\u201d read her character bio. \u201cShe supervises Henry\u2019s cases, pushes him and infrequently clashes with him; Conrad is at all times seven steps ahead, and Woodrow is never greater than five. Still, the pair share a grudging mutual respect that makes for a compelling, strange-bedfellows dynamic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actress\u2019 recent job raised questions on her future on ABC\u2019s <em>Shifting Gears<\/em>. She was expected to return for season 3 after previously appearing in nine episodes while also filming AMC\u2019s <em>Dark Winds.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">TV Couples We Need Together in 2026: From \u2018The Pitt\u2019 to \u2018Tracker\u2019<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tFan-favorite TV couples like 9-1-1\u2019s Buck and Eddie, The Bear\u2019s Sydney and Carmy and Tracker\u2019s Colter and Reenie \u2014 or Billie \u2014 need to finally get together on screen in 2026. Based on Jeffery Deaver\u2018s novel The Never Game, Tracker has viewers tuning in each week to see their favorite fictional survivalist \u2014 a.k.a Colter [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Elfman previously spoke to Us about returning to the ABC hit.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You will have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m loving doing the show. I really like working with everybody on it. I really like the showrunner. It genuinely is like I\u2019m waiting for the opposite shoe to drop because I can\u2019t imagine how good it&#8217;s. I\u2019m very excited for everybody to see it,\u201d she gushed in September 2025. \u201cI even have to say I\u2019m blown away by the writing this 12 months. They\u2019re writing for every actor and for his or her character so well. The stories are sincerely hilarious. Like, at work, we\u2019re all doubled over laughing repeatedly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elfman continued: \u201cJust as a performer and as someone on this industry, I\u2019m blown away at how good the comedy is on this show this 12 months. In order that makes me very excited for everybody at home because I do know they\u2019re going to have an incredible laugh with their family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Shifting Gears<\/em> is currently streaming on Hulu, while <em>The Interrogator<\/em> will air on Fox.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenna Elfman broke her silence after her recent show hinted at a possible exit from Tim Allen\u2018s Shifting Gears. Throughout the Fox Upfronts on Monday, May 11, Elfman, 54, confirmed exclusively to Us Weekly that her joining The Interrogator as a series regular opposite Stephen Fry wouldn\u2019t interfere together with her role as Eve on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[720,824,51652,1475,994,4030,11711,21272],"class_list":["post-333736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-addresses","tag-concerns","tag-elfman","tag-exit","tag-future","tag-gears","tag-jenna","tag-shifting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333739,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333736\/revisions\/333739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}