G: Yeah and that was not a plan, that was not a big plan that we had. He came to us and said he wanted to direct a show, he had been watching, he's been such a fan. He got on the set and told us how much he was enjoying the show and went down to each character and said, "I saw this show when your character did that." and he was so excited that we were all really blown away. Obviously we are all big fans of his, so it was a great honour and our show was suppose to be an hour originally then they stretched it out to two hours because of all the work that he wanted to bring.

S: We reviewed it on the program, it was a stressful programme to watch never mind to be in.

G: (laughs) People in boxes and all sorts of things?

S: Yeah exactly I've seen enough people in boxes on the television and in movies, in general I'm not a fan really of that kind of thing. How much has Warrick changed as a character since you started?

G: They've given me some great arcs on the show which has been surprising. At first I wasn't sure how to take them, your not sure how to take the drama, your not sure if it's going to be a stereotype, your not sure if it's gonna be something that you can pull off, but then I looked around at a lot of other actors, and the ones that I admire and appreciate like maybe Sam Jackson or De Niroor Malkovich and some of those actors they all played characters who had a lot of adversity to overcome, deal with and that's what made it exciting. That's drama, that's what you get into the business for, to play that. So that I really started to dive in and since I've been doing that over the years it's been making my work better. I've been really grateful to the writers for giving me a lot of good dramatic arcs to play.

S: How much input are you allowed to have into collaborating?

G: We collaborate quite a bit. They bring across storylines and ideas and ask how me I feel about that and then I bring stuff back to them or I come up with an idea and have them write it into the show. So we have a good collaboration. Now this year my character has decided to get married, so you'll be seeing some of that going.

S: I have a question here from Paul in Kent. "Could you ask Gary please, how accurate are the three CSI series to real crime fighting in the US. I enjoy the programmes immensely especially the original series, but find it hard to believe both the deaths of a millionaire and a homeless drunk would be treated with equal fervour and that is not a mealy mouth expense."

G: Yeah you know there's a lot of cynics in the law enforcement agencies because they see a lot of stuff and as you know we're a TV show, so we have to sensationalise a great deal of things, I wouldn't say we were a documentary, we're an entertainment show. So a lot of that is taken you know with a grain of salt. We take great license in our show, there's a lot of things a little bit...we don't solve crimes in 45 minutes, that's impossible, it takes them many, many years to solve a crime.

S: So the answer to his question is, don't even think, it's (laughs) just an entertainment show.

G: (laughs) Yeah, just enjoy the show.

(Simon interrupts laughing)

S:It's just entertainment. And what do police say to you, presumably they watch and do they like the fact that it just entertainment or do they get irritated by the fact that you don't necessarily follow correct procedure all the time?

G: Well there's...it's a two part, I mean mostly I've been very surprised because most of the law enforcement people that I run across they're really happy with the portrayal of the facts on our show, we take great pains to have all the scientific facts be true. Most of the CSIs that are really on set, real law enforcement people are always working right next to us making sure we have everything right, that we get all the techniques right and that we pronounciate all the five syllable Latin words right and that we're always pretty much on it and so that stuff is correct and of course you have the murder she wrote stories in the background that we have to deal with, but those you know like I said, that's TV.