The show, which aired at 8pm, peaked and averaged at 1.1m viewers, with a 4.4% audience share.
The show was never going to give ITV1's 'HeartBeat' much trouble. The 1960s police drama peaked with an audience of 8.3m viewers and a 36% audience share.
Over on BBC One, the new series of 'Monarch of the Glen' averaged 5.6m viewers with a 23% audience share peaking at 6.1m and a 24.5% share.
'Betrayed by New Labour', which featured no one from the BBC or Downing Street, kicked off with the statement: "I'm Greg Dyke. I used to run the BBC until I was forced out. This is the story of a political scandal in which I found myself at the centre".
The show did feature guests including Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow, former BBC chairman Gavyn Davies, who was ousted alongside Dyke, and The Guardian's political pundit David Aaronovitch.
Heavy on New Labour spin, the show set out to shed light on what happened around the time of the Andrew Gilligan Radio 4 'Today' programme broadcast and later in the findings of Lord Hutton's report, which failed to place any blame for the death of Dr David Kelly on the government.
The Scotsman said of the show today: "If Dyke had felt a little less strongly and stopped more often to calm himself down and engage his brain -- as political pundit David Aaronovitch pointed out -- he might still be running the BBC."
Dyke left the BBC after Lord Hutton criticised reporting errors by Gilligan on the 'Today' programme in his inquiry into the events leading up to the death of Dr Kelly.
In the programme last night, Dyke claimed that the BBC made a deal with Number 10, that Blair would not call for resignations. However, former director of communications at Number 10, Alastair Campbell called for heads to roll at a press conference following the publication of the Hutton Report.
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