shopping channel Price-drop.tv is launched. Channel 4 announces that its long-running soap Brookside will end in November. 12 June A storyline involving the Coronation Street character Todd Grimshaw who rejected a place at Oxford University because his girlfriend said she would not follow him there, is criticised by the Sutton Trust, an organisation that encourages children from poorer backgrounds to apply to top universities. The Trust says it is disappointed as the storyline sends out the wrong message to children watching the soap. The issue also highlights the small number of soap characters who attend university. Sky1 airs the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BBC Two airs the episode on 18 December. 17 June – BBC Two airs a special edition of TOTP2 dedicated to the record producer Mickie Most who died on 30 May. 19 June – Actress Laura Sadler who plays Sandy Harper in Holby City, dies in hospital after she fell from a block of flats in west London a few days earlier. She sustained extensive head injuries as a result of the fall and had not regained consciousness. A subsequent inquest held at West London Coroner's Court records a verdict of accidental death. 20 June – The final edition of Play Your Cards Right is broadcast on ITV with Bruce Forsyth as presenter which in turn also marks the end of the final series of the game show to air on ITV. It has returned for one-off specials, presented by Ant & Dec on 15 October 2005 and Vernon Kay on 26 May 2007 as part of the series Gameshow Marathon. 22 June – ITV1 announces that it has axed the long-running Saturday night game show Blind Date. 25 June Channel 4 Director of Television Tim Gardam announces he will step down from the job after five years, departing at the end of the year. A viewer complaint about an edition of Channel 4's V Graham Norton in which Dustin Hoffman told a joke which included a taboo word is upheld by the Broadcasting Standards Commission. ITV's Tonight is also censured after airing an interview with a pregnant teenager which was perceived to have been of an exploitative nature because her predicament had largely come about because of a lack of knowledge. 28 June ITV1 records one of its worst ever Saturday night audiences when coverage of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships is extended on