The show was beaten by documentary Fred and Rose: The Untold Story on Channel 5, which had 893,000 viewers and a 5.7% share between 10pm and 11pm.
Because the company owns 13 networks in the United States, including TLC, Animal Planet and the Science Channel, it has untold thousands of hours of footage.
Comparing his documentary with others that Channel 4 had produced on religious history, such as The Bible: A History, he noted that Islam: The Untold Story fell within the channel's remit of sparking "well-informed debate on a wide range of issues".
That odd little band, whose eccentric and sine-qua-non American accomplishments we celebrate next week, gets a tantalizing hearing Sunday on the History Channels Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower.
In 2012, Holland published his revisionist book In the Shadow of the Sword, and made a documentary for Channel 4 entitled Islam: the Untold Story.
"Likewise, Channel 4's Islam: the Untold Story gave viewers an opportunity to appreciate the rich and fascinating history of the Muslim faith".
More seriously, though, in 2012, a documentary he made for Channel 4 called Islam: the Untold Story – based on his book In the Shadow of the Sword – provoked huge controversy.
Justin Welby – who was enthroned as leader of the worldwide Anglican communion in March – described religious formats as the real reality shows and said programmes such as ITV's Strictly Kosher and Channel 4's Islam: The Untold Story had provided considerable insights into the faiths they documented.
It's absolutely nauseating, and he should pay for it with his job long before next summer, when Channel 4 is scheduled to gift Frankie Boyle untold hours of cracking new material as official broadcaster of the Paralympics.
For the last three years he has been the host of "Dirty Jobs," the gross-out cable hit on the Discovery Channel, a gig that has exposed him to untold tons of sludge, sewage, mud, manure, detritus, excreta, road kill and plain old nastiness.
