Jodie Whittaker wants to guest star in Brooklyn Nine-Nine – or Derry Girls

The current Doctor Who star is desperate to appear in her two favourite TV shows

Published: Monday, 10 June 2019 at 12:03 pm

Jodie Whittaker’s schedule is pretty packed these days, with the 36-year-old currently shooting her second series of Doctor Who in Cardiff and around the world. But if she wasn’t the Doctor? Well, Whittaker has her eye on a guest spot in a couple of plum TV shows, starting with a certain fan-favourite US comedy set in a police precinct…

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“Mandip [Gill] knows what I’d say to this: it’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” Whittaker told Doctor Who Magazine when asked what other TV shows she’d like to star in.

“She’s sick of me talking her through it. I don’t know if she’s watched it or not, but I think she would be a fan if she did.”

Notably, Whittaker ALMOST lived her dream in 2018 when she met (and was photographed with) the Brooklyn Nine-Nine cast (including Andy Samberg and Terry Crews) at San Diego Comic-Con last year. Surely it’s only a tiny step more for them to write her in?

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And if not, well, there’s always her second choice, which is a little closer to home.

“So Brooklyn Nine-Nine…or Derry Girls,” Whittaker said, noting her love for Lisa McGee’s 1990s-set Northern Irish comedy.

“But I do a terrible Irish accent so I’d need to work on that.”

So there you have it – if New York’s OR Northern Ireland’s Finest find room for a Time Lord, they’d have a very willing participant in Whittaker.

And frankly, who wouldn’t want the Doctor on their team?

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Huw FullertonCommissioning editor

Huw Fullerton is a commissioning editor for Radio Times magazine handling comedy, entertainment and specialist drama. In a previous regeneration, he covered all things sci-fi and fantasy for RadioTimes.com.

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