Brother. 17 August – ITV announces plans to launch a children's channel to rival CBBC. 22 August - Peppa Pig makes its debut in the United States, on Cartoon Network's Tickle U programming block, re-dubbed with American voice actors. This turns out to be a flop, so Nick Jr airs the original British version. September 3 September – After several revamps and presenting changes, BBC One airs the final edition of its children's entertainment series The Saturday Show. 7 September – The BBC and ITV announce plans to launch Freesat, a Free-to-air satellite television series to rival Sky. 8 September – Faze TV, a British digital channel aimed at gay men, cancels its launch after failing to secure sufficient funding to deliver "sufficient quality." 11 September – BBC One launches Sunday AM, a Sunday morning current affairs programme presented by Andrew Marr. 12 September – In an interview with The Guardian, the BBC Director of News and Current Affairs Helen Boaden defends the broadcaster's decision to stick with initial reports of a power surge on the London Underground on the morning of 7 July until actual events could be corroborated, saying it was the right thing to do. "Some of our competitors talked immediately of 90 dead. They talked about three bus bombs. That was off a range of various wire services and it was complete speculation and we wouldn't go with that. We would be careful – we would try to check things out." 19 September – The most famous children's classic television character Muffin the Mule (who has disappeared from TV screens for a very long time) is back with a brand new 2D animated series on BBC Two. 20 September – After seven and a half years, Emmerdale sees a new sequence to the opening titles of the series, with the same 1998 theme music alongside another helicopter montage, this time marginally slower and without the actors and the closing credits are generic ITV Network style credits over a continuous shot of the village, again from a helicopter, but filmed from a different angle. On the same evening, BBC One airs Derailed, a docudrama dealing with the 1999 Ladbroke Grove rail crash. 22 September – ITV airs a second live episode of The Bill to mark the broadcaster's 50th year on air. 23 September – It is announced that Des Lynam will succeed Richard Whiteley as presenter