Wednesday viewing figures: 'Waterloo Road' returns with 4.9m

Waterloo Road returned to screens with an audience close to the 5m mark on Wednesday evening (February 22), overnight figures show.



Waterloo Road pulled in 4.88m (21.8%) at 8pm as Sian covered for Michael on a difficult day for the school.

Emmerdale, meanwhile, topped the soap ratings as 7.53m (35.2%) tuned in to see Katie grow frustrated over newcomer Megan. A further 166k (0.8%) tuned in on ITV1+1.

Hollyoaks grabbed 1.03m (5.0%) at 6.30pm on Channel 4 and 118k (0.6%) on +1 as Mercedes went AWOL with Kathleen-Angel, before E4's first look entertained 470k (2.2%) at 7pm.

Over on Channel 5, Neighbours managed 733k (9.0%) at 1.45pm and 1.12m (6.7%) at 5.30pm, while Home and Away mustered 922k (4.7%) at 6pm and 543k (2.7%) for 5*'s first look.

Elsewhere, the latest episode of Doctors - titled 'The Ones We Leave Behind' - was seen by 1.84m (22.8%) at 1.45pm.