This City Is Ours is a BBC crime drama about a Liverpool family that runs a drug-trafficking business. Search interest in Britain is focused on its cast and on a second series.
Key takeaways
- This City Is Ours is a British television crime drama about a family-run drug-trafficking organisation based in Liverpool.
- Search data from Google in the United Kingdom shows people looking up the series, its cast and a second series together.
- This article does not confirm a broadcast date for a second series, and readers should check official broadcaster announcements for one.
- The interest in the show fits a long British tradition of regional crime drama built around family loyalty and succession.
This City Is Ours, the series
This City Is Ours is a scripted crime drama made for BBC television. It is set mainly in Liverpool, and its plot follows a criminal organisation that is run like a family firm. The business imports and distributes drugs. The people at the top are bound to each other by blood, marriage and long personal history as much as by money.
The story centres on succession. An older head of the organisation is thinking about who should take over. Two possible heirs pull the business, and the family, in different directions. One is a blood relative. The other is a trusted lieutenant who was brought into the family’s world and rose through it. The question of who inherits control drives most of the drama, and it raises the questions the show cares about: loyalty, legitimacy and what it costs to belong.
The scale goes beyond one city. The supply chains behind a modern drug-trafficking operation reach across borders, and the series follows those links abroad. That means negotiations with suppliers, rival groups and the steady risk of betrayal. Liverpool is still the anchor, though. The show leans on its setting and presents the city as a real place with its own textures, not as a generic urban backdrop.
In tone, the series is a character-led family saga dressed as a gangster story, not a procedural. It does not follow the police officers trying to bring the organisation down. It stays mostly inside the criminal family. Viewers see events from the point of view of the people committing the crimes, and the moral weight sits with the consequences of what they choose.
This City Is Ours season 2
Several of the search terms in the Google data refer to a second series, with phrasing such as “season 2” and “season 2 cast”. That shows a clear interest in whether the story continues and who will be in it.
Some details are not set out here. A broadcast date for a second series is not given, and neither is the number of episodes or how the plot might pick up from the end of the first run. If the broadcaster has announced any of these, viewers should take them from its official channels, not from speculation. The mix of searches suggests some people may also be checking whether a second series exists at all. That pattern is common when a drama finishes and audiences start waiting for news.
The term “season” in these searches is also worth a note. British broadcasters usually say “series”, but the American word “season” has spread through streaming platforms and international fan communities. Seeing both in British search data is normal, and it reflects how audiences in the UK now talk about television.
This City Is Ours cast
Interest in the cast is the third strand in the search data. With an ensemble drama like this one, people often look up the cast after an episode. They may want to place a familiar face, check who plays a particular character, or find out whether the main performers will return.
This article does not discuss the individual performers. It describes the show’s dramatic structure instead. The central figures are the head of the crime family, a younger family member positioned as a natural heir, and a capable outsider-turned-insider who rivals him for the succession. Around them are partners, relatives and associates whose loyalties are tested as the business comes under pressure. Women in the family are not only bystanders. They have their own stakes in how power is handed on.
For anyone checking who plays which part, the most reliable sources are the broadcaster’s programme pages and the production’s official credits. They will also be the first place to confirm casting news for any further series.
The search for “the city is ours”
Some of the queries drop a word and look for “the city is ours” rather than the full title. Shortened or slightly wrong titles are common in search data. They usually point to the same programme, typed from memory or after hearing it mentioned in conversation. They are a sign of word-of-mouth interest more than of a separate subject.
Phrases like this can also turn up as song lyrics, slogans or titles of unrelated works, so a few of these searches may have nothing to do with the drama. Here, the shortened title sits alongside “season 2” and “cast”. That suggests most people searching it are looking for the BBC series.
What the pattern of searches tells us
Taken together, the searches tell a familiar story about how British audiences engage with a home-grown drama. People do not only look up the title. They also want to know who is in it and whether more is coming. Those are the questions of viewers who have already watched and want to stay with the story, not of people who have just heard of it.
The show also belongs to an established tradition. British television has a long history of crime dramas tied to specific cities and regions, where local accents, landscapes and social history are part of the appeal. Family-run criminal enterprises give writers a ready framework for drama that is more about inheritance, power and loyalty than about the crimes themselves. This City Is Ours fits that pattern, with Liverpool as its stage.
The mixed vocabulary in the searches, “series” and “season”, the full title and a shortened version, shows how British viewing habits have been reshaped by streaming and international fandom. A drama made for a British public broadcaster is now discussed in terms that would be just as familiar to an audience abroad.
Finally, the signal is a reminder of what search data can and cannot show. It shows that interest exists and where it is pointed. It cannot confirm production schedules, casting decisions or release dates. Those come only from the broadcaster and the production, and anyone waiting for a second series should treat them as the authority.
Sources and further reading
- Google Trends data for the United Kingdom, showing the related search terms for the series, its cast and a second series.
- BBC programme pages, the official reference for episode listings, cast credits and scheduling announcements.
- BBC Media Centre, where the broadcaster publishes press material about commissions and new series.
- UK television trade publications and reviews, for wider critical context on British crime drama.
Surfaced from the google:GB signal “BBC crime drama interest”. AI-assisted draft, editorially reviewed.
