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The Garden Productions’ documentary struggled to match the 880,000 (6.3%) who tuned in for the opener last week and fell well short of the channel’s 1.4m (7%) slot average for the past 12 months.

The episode lost ground over the hour it was on-air – opening with a high of 805,000 (5.1%) but steadily slipping to close with 462,000 (4.2%).

It was defeated by The Nightly Show on ITV which continued across the 30-minutes from 10pm with 1.4m (9.1%), in line with last Thursday’s outing.

Earlier in the evening Noho Television’s six-part prequel about a young Jane Tennison, slipped by around 1m viewers from last week’s launch.

However it easily won the slot and remained comfortably ahead of the channel’s 3.3m (16%) slot average.

BBC1’s consumer affairs Britain on the Fiddle was next in line with 3m (15.2%), in line with last week’s opener.

On C4, Oxford Scientific Films’ A Very British Hotel took 1.7m (8.5%) behind the scenes of The Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park Hotel, down on the 2.2m (11.1%) opener.

BBC2 doc Brexit: Britain’s Biggest Deal picked up 1m (5.1%), according to Barb data supplied by overnights.tv, just ahead of Channel 5’s The Great British Benefits Handout, which picked up 890,000 (4.6%)

Earlier in the evening, the second instalment of Nit Television’s mad-cap six-parter slipped slightly from last week’s launch to around half the 4m (19.5%) slot average.