live_chat_craig_charles: Hi there everyone!
live_chat_craig_charles: How are you doing?
yonster_2000: are you in going to be in any star trek films
live_chat_craig_charles: I'd love to be in a Star Trek film; Patrick Stewart is a big fan of Red Dwarf and he hosted our Red Dwarf theme night on BBC 2 and we got on really well
live_chat_craig_charles: I interviewed him on Live and Kicking, and he said hed love to be in our Red Dwarf movie
live_chat_craig_charles: but I dont know if that will happen
live_chat_craig_charles: I dont know if they are making any more Star Trek movies, but I'd love to have a go!
noelle_e_walsh: any hopes of another red dwarf series craig??
live_chat_craig_charles: Yes, but we have to make the film first
live_chat_craig_charles: Weve just gone into pre production
live_chat_craig_charles: all the cast are getting together tomorrow to read the script
live_chat_craig_charles: and we want to get it made as soon as possible!
lambexpress: hello craig i was just wondering what first got you into star trek and what is your favorite tv spin off or is it the origanals?
live_chat_craig_charles: The originals are my fravourite
live_chat_craig_charles: Ill tell you an embarassing story
live_chat_craig_charles: A couple of years ago we made a show called space cadets on C4
live_chat_craig_charles: and we had William Shatner on
live_chat_craig_charles: And I told him I loved the first series, the one in black and white
live_chat_craig_charles: but he said 'We never made one in black and white!'
live_chat_craig_charles: and then I realised that we had been wathcing it on a black and white telly ;)
live_chat_craig_charles: However I did get to snog Bill Shatner, tongues and all
live_chat_craig_charles: Fulfilled a lifetime ambition
live_chat_craig_charles: I've also snogged Chis Barrie (Rimmer)
live_chat_craig_charles: and I have to say Chris wins hands down
e_oakes_2000: when hosting robot wars have you ever been tempted to make your own robot?
live_chat_craig_charles: Nah, I cant even change a fuse
live_chat_craig_charles: In fact Ive just bought a new house and I was walking around homebase the other day, looking for nails and stuff
live_chat_craig_charles: this chap came up to me with a glazed look in his eyes and said 'd'you want me to build a robot????!'
live_chat_craig_charles: I'm never going in there again:P
live_chat_craig_charles: Calvin Klein, youre pants
live_chat_craig_charles: when the gusset goes, does it just say cack?
live_chat_craig_charles: I love Philippa Forrester, shes a lovely person, jsut as lovely in real life
live_chat_craig_charles: and shell be back in the next series I'm told
zane_enterprise: what kind of music do u like?
live_chat_craig_charles: I'm quite eclectic really
live_chat_craig_charles: I go for anything from jazz to blues to brit pop
dj_mcgee_in_da_house: What would your robot look like if you had too build one
live_chat_craig_charles: Itd have the face of Margaret Thatcher but with no weapons
live_chat_craig_charles: so you could just come up with your big iron bar or whatever and beat it to a pulp
live_chat_craig_charles: you can tell I'm a child of the eighties!!
sickasasickdog: What is the most obscure Star Trek fact you know?
live_chat_craig_charles: The eyes of the Borg flash in braille the producers of the series
live_chat_craig_charles: Theres a Star Trek book out which is kind of a history book in Star Trek terms
live_chat_craig_charles: in 2020 or something, the people who run Los Angeles are called Rimmer and Lister
mastaz_lounge: How old are you
live_chat_craig_charles: Im 36 which means in dog years I'm dead
bigbandjohn: Nice to chat with you today. How would you like to see Voyager end?
live_chat_craig_charles: I'd like to see them get back home and have a really hot curry
lambexpress: when are you next touring and will it be new material??
live_chat_craig_charles: It will be new material but it will be quite a while cos I'm in the middle of recording an album with my band, The Eye
live_chat_craig_charles: I dont consider myself good looking at all
live_chat_craig_charles: theres a website out there called Phred's Beautiful Boys and Im one of them
live_chat_craig_charles: And i'm amazaed that anyone blind can use the internet so well;)
sickasasickdog: Who's the funniest person you've ever met?
live_chat_craig_charles: Russell Bell. Hes a comedy writer
live_chat_craig_charles: He works with people like Keith Allen
live_chat_craig_charles: Hes really really funny
amber18g: are the dreadlocks real and if so - anrt they annoying?
live_chat_craig_charles: They were real originally, but I cut them off cos they started to smell
iceman1234uk: hiya there mate how did you get into red dwarf
live_chat_craig_charles: I was doing Saturday night live on C4 with Ben Elton
live_chat_craig_charles: and the producer was leaving to do a show called Red Dwarf
live_chat_craig_charles: I read the script and asked if I could play Lister
live_chat_craig_charles: and that was that!
sickasasickdog: How do you feel you about being a Sci Fi guru?
live_chat_craig_charles: I didnt know I was a Sci Fi guru
live_chat_craig_charles: I mean I'm really interested in it
live_chat_craig_charles: but I'm no way as good on trivia as some anoraks I know;)
live_chat_craig_charles: some are fully fledged parkas
amber18g: please ask him if chris barrie is ok to work with?
live_chat_craig_charles: Chris is excellent to work with
live_chat_craig_charles: totally professional
live_chat_craig_charles: one of the funniest people I know
malitza2000: If you could be any Star Trek Character who would you be?
live_chat_craig_charles: I'd be Captain Kirks truss
live_chat_craig_charles: I think one day Lister will become Captain Kirks truss
live_chat_craig_charles: boldly going in his pants
live_chat_craig_charles: or I'd like to be 7 of 9
live_chat_craig_charles: and I'd spend all day looking in the mirror!
uk30yrold: if you could be beamed anywhere you like where would you be beamed
live_chat_craig_charles: I wouldnt mind getting mind getting beamed to which ever citadel was hosting the European Cup
live_chat_craig_charles: And Liverpool would win
FIONAROB76: What was your favourite episode Craig of Red Dwarf?
live_chat_craig_charles: Time Slides
live_chat_craig_charles: cos my brother was in it
live_chat_craig_charles: he was me when I was young
live_chat_craig_charles: and my band were in it
live_chat_craig_charles: (not the one I'm in now)
nelsac2000: what's your favourite house robot?
live_chat_craig_charles: Mid fielder
live_chat_craig_charles: cos shes so bad and gets beaten all the time and its quite nice to see house robots get beaten
noelle_e_walsh: so will it be captain lister of the starship enterprise??
live_chat_craig_charles: yeah it would be nice but theyd want me to change my accent
live_chat_craig_charles: the difference between Captain Kirk and Jean Luc Picard is that one is obviously bald
live_chat_craig_charles: and the other is english!
uk_ireland_chat_host: OK guys, I'm afraid that's all we've time for...
uk_ireland_chat_host: but there's more celebrity chats coming up veeeeery soon ;-)
uk_ireland_chat_host: so stay here for a bit, & I'll give you the details
uk_ireland_chat_host: cheers Craig! :-)
uk_ireland_chat_host: the next big chat's this Friday, at 2pm GMT with Monica Grenfell
uk_ireland_chat_host: 'Does Food Affect Your Mood?'
uk_ireland_chat_host: Than for those F! fans among you, we've Mika Salo...
uk_ireland_chat_host: at 4.30 this Friday too!
uk_ireland_chat_host: here's another onw
uk_ireland_chat_host: on monday 26th
uk_ireland_chat_host: we've got the manic street preachers
uk_ireland_chat_host: at 1.30 pm
uk_ireland_chat_host: so bye for now and thanks for coming