before the members of Girls Aloud were announced. 7 December – Gareth Gates interpretation of Unchained Melody is voted the 2002 Record of the Year by ITV viewers. 8 December – Athlete Paula Radcliffe is named as this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year. 10 December The Prime Minister's wife Cherie Blair appears on television to make a public apology over dealings she had with convicted fraudster Peter Foster. BBC Two airs a special edition of TOTP2 featuring Celine Dion. 13 December – David Sneddon wins the first series of Fame Academy. 15 December – On the Record, the BBC's flagship political programme, ends after 14 years on the air. 17 December – BBC Two airs its first terrestrial television showing of Mike Nichols' 2001 American award-winning drama film Wit, starring Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Atkins and Harold Pinter. Based on the Margaret Edson's play of the same title, Vivian Bearing is a literal English university professor who has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer when she reflects on her reactions to take several treatments and significant events in her life. 18 December – The joint NTL/Vivendi film channel The Studio announces it will close at the end of the year after its owners decide it is not financially viable. 22 December The debut of the controversial BBC One documentary The Virgin Mary which questions many of the central aspects of the Nativity. The programme is condemned by groups associated with the Catholic Church and attracts 500 complaints from viewers, the highest number of complaints for a single programme in 2002. The programme is seen by an audience of just over three million. Crispian Hollis, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Portsmouth accuses the programme's makers of misrepresenting the Virgin Mary and says he will write to BBC Director-General Greg Dyke to complain about its broadcast. A special edition of Popstars: The Rivals in which it is announced that Sound of the Underground recorded by Girls Aloud has reached Number one on the Singles Chart, thereby becoming the Christmas Number One. One True Voice's double A-side single, Sacred Trust/After You're Gone enters the charts at Number Two. 25 December The 2000 Aardman stop-motion animated film Chicken Run airs on BBC One as part of the channel's Christmas Day schedule. Strangers on the Shore, a Christmas special and the penultimate episode of Only Fools and Horses, is the highest rated show