It was the successor to The General and initially kept the same location and format, adding Gaby Roslin, Nick Knowles and Edwina Silver to the presenting line up.
[3] The show followed real patients and staff and featured daily live-to-air footage of actual surgical operations, as they were being performed.
[5] A ratings success, the final series commanded a quarter of all the UK television audience at 10am every weekday - over a million viewers daily.
The BBC reported: "Alongside the usual big hitters, the dramas and US imports, the daytime programme City Hospital always wins through with high AIs.
"[citation needed] In 1999 Yvette Fielding's boyfriend Karl Beattie, a cameraman on the show, proposed to her live on air.