Emmerdale enjoyed a big audience boost with its hour-long live episode on Wednesday evening (October 17), overnight figures show.
The special 40th anniversary broadcast, which saw bad boy Carl King killed off, pulled in 8.84m (40.0%) at 7pm on ITV1 and 374k (1.7%) on +1 an hour later.
Emmerdale Live peaked with 9.15m (40.8%) in its final 15 minutes as Carl was murdered by Cameron Murray.
The episode was the most-watched of the year so far for Emmerdale, up on the 8.6m figure achieved in January when Zak was revealed as Cain's attacker.
Emmerdale Live: The Fallout also performed well for ITV2 in the aftermath of the special, attracting 1.59m (7.2%) at 8pm and 218k (1.0%) on timeshift.
Hollyoaks, meanwhile, interested 855k (4.3%) at 6.30pm on Channel 4 as Tony revealed a surprise for Cindy, while E4's first look had 559k (2.6%) at 7pm and 120k (0.6%) on +1.
Over on Channel 5, Neighbours grabbed 677k (10.1%) at 1.45pm and 867k (5.1%) at 5.30pm, while Home and Away managed 698k (3.8%) at 6pm and 495k (2.5%) for 5*'s first look at 6.30pm.
Elsewhere, the latest episode of Doctors was seen by 1.28m (19.2%) at 1.45pm on BBC One.
