portrayed in the film. Soul had co-operated with the documentary, but felt it betrayed because it had concentrated too much on the negative aspects of his life. 18 March – FremantleMedia confirms plans to bring the popular US TV series The Apprentice to the UK. 21 March – "An Apple a Day", an episode of Last of the Summer Wine aired on BBC1 in which Billy Hardcastle does not appear. 22 March – Christopher Eccleston is announced as the ninth actor to play The Doctor in Doctor Who. A new 13-part series will be filmed in Cardiff later in the year and make its debut in 2005. 27 March – After two years, The Story Makers airs the last ever episode. 29 March – BBC Two Controller Jane Root will leave her role to take up a position with the Discovery Network in the United States, it is reported. 31 March – The LWT logo is seen on screen for the final time, having continued to appear as an endcap after the formation of ITV plc. March – Launch of the Islam Channel. A new pay television service on digital terrestrial television, Top Up TV, launches. It offers ten channels, each of which broadcasts on a part-time basis. April 1 April – It is reported that ITV have axed On the Ball after losing the broadcast rights to screen Premiership highlights. It will disappear from the schedule at the end of the current season. BBC One airs Pat and Mo, an EastEnders spin-off episode featuring Pat Butcher and Mo Harris during the 1950s. 2 April – Michael Grade is appointed as new BBC chairman, taking over the role from Gavyn Davies, who stepped down in the wake of the Hutton Report. 3 April – CITV airs the premiere of the Japanese-American TV series based on the Sonic the Hedgehog game series, Sonic X. 7 April – Former Bad Girls actress Debra Stephenson is to join Coronation Street as new character Frankie Baldwin. She will be seen onscreen from June. 12 April – Magdalen College, Oxford wins the 2003–04 series of University Challenge, beating Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 190–160. 13 April – BBC Two airs the television debut of Hawking, a drama about the life and work of theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, and which stars Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role. 15 April – ITV announce plans for Vote