i only posted this as a way of indicating though it's not the type of viewing figures you get for popular soaps, in consideration i think that it did very well in the viewing stakes.
Meet the Romans with Mary Beard also concluded, at 9pm on BBC2. The three-part Lion Television series has looked at the personal lives of the ordinary inhabitants of ancient Rome, in the company of classicist Mary Beard. The final programme’s audience of 1.9m (8.4%) gave a Performance Index of 139.7, and brought the series average to 1.8m (7.5%).