On BBC2 at the same, an instalment of Friends for Dinner featuring Ainsley Harriott had 1.9m.
The book's other central narrative, accorded fewer pages but the same number of instalments, portrays the German art school, Bauhaus, in 1922, 1927 and 1933.
Later, on the same channel, the first instalment of a Storyville two-parter featuring US writer Norman Mailer giving a personal tour through post World War Two American history drew 0.6m/7%, from 11.20pm.
Mad Max: Fury Road will also have a special screening on Thursday, the same day the latest instalment in the apocalyptic action series opens in cinemas.
Schwarzenegger presumably does not feel the same way about the latest instalment of the Terminator franchise.
It began with tears, and the last instalment ended the same way.
For those who haven't seen the trailer, the action takes place in the same timeframe as the previous instalment, The Bourne Ultimatum.
If instead of moving the debt they kept it on their current credit card, which we will assume has a fairly typical interest rate of 18.9%, and paid it off in equal instalments over the same 39-month term, they would pay £1,586 in interest.
That's some significant competition, against which I can't see another Assassin's Creed that plays much the same way as so many instalments before it truly shining.
It's only five years since the same studio gave us the third instalment of a different version of the same arachnid hero's exploits.
