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City Central (TV series)

City Central
Genre Police Procedural, Drama
Created by Tony Jordan
Written by Various
Directed by Various
Starring Paul Nicholls
Ian Aspinall
Dave Hill
Ashley Jensen
Sarah Kirkman
Sean McKenzie
Terence Harvey
Michael Begley
Lorraine Ashbourne
Philip Martin Brown
Country of origin
  • United Kingdom
Original language(s)
  • English
No. of series 3
No. of episodes 32 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Mal Young
Laura Mackie
Producer(s) John Yorke
Ken Horn
Location(s)
  • United Kingdom
Running time 50 minutes
Release
Original network
Picture format 16:9
Audio format Stereo
Original release 4 April 1998 (1998-04-04) – 19 June 2000 (2000-06-19)

City Central was a BBC's police procedural television drama series, created by Tony Jordan, and broadcast on BBC One between 4 April 1998 and 19 June 2000. Three series of the programme were produced. The series was initially described as a "star vehicle" for actor Paul Nicholls, but focus slowly shifted away from his character and later focused on an ensemble cast.

The series is notable for having never been released on DVD; and also having never been repeated since its original broadcast.

City Central follows the everyday public and private lives of the detectives, policemen and policewomen who work at the inner-city Christmas Street police station in Manchester. Although heavily focusing on the uniform relief working at the station, the series featured a small number of CID officers, a factor which was later reduced in the third and final series, after creator Tony Jordan noted that The Bill had started focusing more on the storylines featuring their CID detectives rather than focusing on the everyday officer on the beat.

The series saw actor Paul Nicholls specifically step away from his role as Joe Wicks on EastEnders to take up the part of P.C. Terry Sydenham, after Nicholls described feeling "troubled and depressed", and felt that a change of character would help him with his own lifestyle. Many at the BBC described the series as a "star vehicle" for Nicholls. However, Nicholls soon began to feel that he was "trapped" by the series, and asked for his character to be written out mid-way through series two.

The final episode of the series was due for broadcast on 17 June 2000, but was moved due to overrunning coverage of Euro 2000.


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