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Monkey

The Wire star goes from Baltimore streets to British bedpan

Holby City: Derek (Clarke Peters) and Donna Jackson (Jaye Jacobs)
Holby City: Derek (Clarke Peters) and Donna Jackson (Jaye Jacobs). Photograph: BBC

American actor Clarke Peters mesmerised many a box set addict with his cool-as-a-cucumber-cop Lester Freamon in the HBO drama The Wire. You may have seen the show mentioned in passing on this website. Now Peters is swapping the mean streets of Baltimore for ... Holby City Hospital. From 14 July, London-based Peters will be joining the Bafta award-winning BBC1 medical soap in a month-long guest starring role. Not that he's getting a break from depressing storylines. His Holby City character, Derek Newman, will apparently spend most of his screen time bed ridden with some nasty disease or other. Monkey confidently predicts that Peters will be the best Holby City guest star, evah – and can't wait for MediaGuardian.co.uk's weekly blog on his stint with the show.

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