TV
The first new episode of the BBC One series, which stars Maxine Peake and Matthew Macfadyen, was down on last year's opening episode, which drew 5.5m (26%) on Monday, July 1, 2008.
It was beaten by the penultimate episode of ITV1's Caroline Quentin-fronted Blue Murder, which logged an impressive 4.63m (19.7%).
Also at 9pm, the second episode of Five's FlashForward was seen by 3.26m (13.9%), just topping last week's premiere. Channel 4's Daredevils had 1.14m (4.8%), and 980k (4.2%) tuned in for Design For Life on BBC Two.
Earlier, at 8pm, The Gadget Show interested 1.53m (6.4%) for Five, 860k (3.6%) watched Channel 4's Dispatches: Who Took Our Pension?, and BBC Two's University Challenge and MasterChef: The Professionals averaged 3.21m (13.5%) and 3.09m (12.9%) at 8pm and 8.30pm respectively.
Panorama logged 2.45m (10.2%) for BBC One at 8.30pm, and 2.77m (11.7%) watched Lady In The Mask - Ten Years On: Tonight at 8pm on ITV1.
BARB ratings data supplied by Attentional
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