Shatner turns celebrity interviewer

Veteran actor William Shatner is set to add chat show host to his resume after signing up to interview celebrities for upcoming U.S. TV programme Shatner's Raw Nerve.

The former Star Trek and T.J. Hooker star will interview fellow actors and politicians on the half-hour show, to air on the Biography Channel.

Television bosses have already lined up 13 episodes of Shatner's Raw Nerve, to air in 2008.