the team of celebrity women to victory while raising over £1,000,000 for charity on the spin-off programme. Her first appearance in the role was on Young Apprentice before the sixth series of the main show, and she regularly appears as a guest panellist on You're Fired!. Claude Littner (Series 11–15, 17) – Primarily assigned as an interviewer on the show since its conception, he was appointed by Sugar as Nick Hewer's replacement following Hewer's departure from the role of adviser, with this appointment being confirmed prior to the eleventh series beginning its broadcast. Although he operates in this role throughout the competition, he retains his position as an interviewer in the Interviews Stage, while he appears as a guest panellist on You're Fired having done so since 2012, four years before becoming an adviser to Sugar. Tim Campbell (series 16-17) – The winner of the first series, he replaced Claude Littner as Sugar's aid for the sixteenth series, following Littner suffering an injury while cycling. Mike Soutar, a regular of the interview stage, filled in for Campbell in the tenth episode of the sixteenth series. Campbell returned for series 17, where he shared the role with a returning Littner. Series overview Series 1 (2005) The first series began in February 2005, with the opening theme being "Montagues and Capulets". The viewer ratings climbed to almost 4 million viewers for the final episode on 4 May 2005. The winner of this series was Tim Campbell, who had previously worked as a Senior Planner within the Marketing and Planning Department of London Underground. After his victory he went on to become Project Director of Amstrad's new Health and Beauty division at the time, but left the company to pursue other interests the following year, starting up the Bright Ideas Trust in 2008 which offers funding and support for young people wishing to start their own business. In August 2008, the American cable channel CNBC began to present the first series on Monday nights, but it was aired in disparate time slots or not at all due to the network's abrupt shifting of their programme schedule in order to cover developments regarding the global financial crisis of 2008–2009, leading to the series not being broadcast in full. With CNBC deciding to focus their prime time schedule on financial news programming, the programme's rights were moved to BBC America, where it started transmission on