Wednesday ratings: 'Emmerdale' Cain antics attract 7.7m

Emmerdale continued to be boosted by its Cain storyline on Wednesday evening as hatred of the bad boy grew in the village, overnight figures show.



Emmerdale pulled in 7.72m (35.1%) at 7pm - up 450k week-on-week - as Jai decided that it was time to report Cain to the police following his latest threats. A further 180k (0.8%) watched on timeshift.

Hollyoaks, meanwhile, attracted 1.17m (5.5%) at 6.30pm on Channel 4 and 170k (0.8%) on +1 as Theresa questioned Warren about Ethan's accusations. E4's first look screening secured 472k (2.2%) at 7pm and 156k (0.7%) on timeshift.

Over on Channel 5, Neighbours appealed to 683k (9.6%) at 1.45pm and 1.32m (7.8%) at 5.30pm, while Home and Away mustered 924k (4.7%) at 6pm and 496k (2.3%) for 5*'s first look at events in Summer Bay.

Elsewhere, the latest edition of Doctors - titled 'Hitting The Wall' - took 1.57m (22.2%) at lunchtime.