City Central is a British television police procedural drama series, written and created by Tony Jordan,[1] that first broadcast on BBC One on 4 April 1998.

[2] Described by the Radio Times as "Z Cars for the 1990s", City Central follows the everyday lives of officers based at the inner-city Christmas Street police station in Manchester.

An entirely new cast were brought in to fill CID, with Ray Stevenson, Ian Burfield and Kate Gartside all axed following the conclusion of the second series.

George Costigan and Connie Hyde joined the series as DI Jack Carter and DS Janet Miller, respectively.

Notably, the series has never been released on DVD, and despite a single re-run on UKTV Drama in 2004, has not been otherwise repeated on television since its original broadcast.