one-off payment of £150. 27 October – British television premiere of the James Bond film Die Another Day on ITV1. 28 October – BBC One airs a special edition of Question Time from Miami, Florida, ahead of the 2004 US presidential election. 30 October – The BBC receives "hundreds of complaints" after reporter Barbara Plett describes herself crying when a frail Yasser Arafat was evacuated to France for medical treatment. Ultimately these complaints are partially upheld by the BBC Governors' Programme Complaints Committee.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4471494.stm|title= Arafat report 'broke BBC rules, BBC 25 November 2005 | date=25 November 2005 | access-date=2009-12-31 | work=BBC News}}</ref> November 1 November – The digital television station ITV3 is launched at 9:00 pm, replacing Granada Plus. 5 November – Just over a year after his high-profile return to EastEnders, the BBC confirms that Leslie Grantham, who plays Den Watts will leave for a second time. Re-runs of The Simpsons debut on Channel 4, having won the broadcasting rights from the BBC in February 2002, with episodes A Tale of Two Springfields and Treehouse of Horror XI. 10 November – British television premiere of the 2002 romantic comedy-drama film About a Boy starring Hugh Grant, Rachel Weisz and Nicholas Hoult. The film airs on ITV1 first, before being shown on BBC One on 14 November. 14 November – Five shows the UK terrestrial television premiere of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. 15 November – It emerges that Mersey Television boss Phil Redmond wrote to Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport offering to buy the publicly funded Channel 4. However, Ofcom says that the channel will not be privatised. 17 November – It is reported that merger talks between Channel 4 and Five have been called off after complexities arose between the public broadcaster Channel 4 and its commercial counterpart. ITV1 airs the British television premiere of The Mummy Returns. 18 November – The video for the new charity single Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid 20 airs simultaneously on all five main UK television networks, as well as over twenty satellite and cable stations. This unprecedented broadcast attracts 13.5 million viewers between 5:50 and 6:00pm. 24 November – A report by Ofcom has recommended that elderly and visually impaired people should be given financial assistance to help them buy equipment capable of receiving digital television before the analogue signal is switched off.