Halcyon slips to low

The fifth instalment of Left Bank Pictures’ eight-part drama slipped from the 3.8m (17.3%) who tuned in to last week’s outing. It is entertaining an average audience of 3.9m (17.7%), below the channel’s slot average of 4.9m (23%) for the past 12 months.

The period drama was defeated by BBC1 stalwart Silent Witness which continued with a steady 5.7m (26.5%), dwarfing the channel’s 4.4m (21.3%) slot average.

Opposite on BBC2, Crux Productions’ one-off documentary George III – The Genius of the Mad King was watched by 1.6m (7.4%) and was narrowly beaten by the fifth and final part of Channel 4’s The Undateables.

The sixth series of the Betty Productions’ format recovered from last week’s series low of 1.5m (7%) to pick up an average of 1.8m (8.1%) across its five-part run.

However it struggled to match the 2m (8.6%) who tuned into watch the fifth series in January last year.

The episode was also beaten by Channel 5’s Celebrity Big Brother which was watched by 2m (9%) from 9pm-10pm, according to Barb data supplied by overnights.tv.

Later in the evening, the fifth part of Twenty Twenty’s dating format spin-off First Dates Hotel picked up 1.1m (8.2%) from 10pm-11.05pm.

It continued to beat the channel’s 972,000 (6.5%) slot average despite shedding 600,000 viewers from its 1.7m (10.6%) launch earlier this month.