kiss to be featured in Coronation Street. Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks begins airing five nights a week. 4 November – Channel 4 airs the final episode of Brookside, ending a run of 21 years. The episode is watched by two million viewers. 6 November – ITV confirms GMTV's Jenni Falconer as the main presenter of its new holiday series, How to Holiday. The programme, a replacement for Wish You Were Here...? will begin in early 2004. 10 November – The short-lived quiz show 19 Keys debuts on Five. 11 November – The BBC current affairs series Panorama, launched in 1953, becomes the first UK television show to reach its 50th anniversary on the air. 12 November The BBC issues a statement in response to a newspaper report that actor Dalip Tahil faces being axed from EastEnders due to not having the correct work permit. The report in the previous Sunday's edition of The People had suggest that after Tahil joined the show from appearing in stage musical Bombay Dreams, neither he nor the BBC obtained proper authorisation from the Home Office to make the switch of employment legal. The BBC says "We are considering any potential problems with a view to resolving them as soon as possible." UK Gold 2 is relaunched as UKG2, a channel aimed at the 16–34 audience demographic. 13 November – The British television premiere of Paul Verhoeven's 2000 science-fiction thriller Hollow Man airs on Five, starring Kevin Bacon and Elisabeth Shue. 14 November – The Office of Fair Trading gives Carlton and Granada the go-ahead to merge after the two companies agreed to adopt a new advertising sales system for ITV and to protect the interests of the smaller companies in the network, including SMG plc and Ulster Television. 16 November Charles II: The Power and the Passion debuts on BBC One. BBC Three airs the spoof documentary Sex, Lies and Michael Aspel which "unmasks" the mild mannered television presenter Michael Aspel as an international womaniser who fathered several children through a string of affairs. 20 November – UTV replaces its network-inspired idents with a series of landscape films of Northern Ireland, in the form of a panorama shot as the camera revolved around a location. 21 November – BBC Three Controller Stuart Murphy confirms that the channel's entertainment news programme Liquid News will end in April 2004. 22 November – ITV's coverage of the