Series
Cilla
Drama
Three-part biopic of the Liverpudlian songbird who would later find fame and fortune. It tells of her rocky road to fame and captures the essence of 1960s Liverpool.
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Seasons & episodes
1Episode 115 Sept 2014 · 60m · ★ 9.0Priscilla White is a Liverpool typist with dreams of escaping the office and becoming a singer. It looks like her chance has come when she meets songwriter Bobby Willis, who claims to be in the music industry - so she's less than impressed to later discover his flash car is hired and he actually works in a bakery. Despite this inauspicious start, Cilla agrees to let him manage her, but will their arrangement still stand after her friends, a local band by the name of the Beatles, help her land an audition with genuine impresario Brian Epstein?
2Episode 222 Sept 2014 · 60m · ★ 9.5As Cilla's confidence returns, Brian Epstein gives her a second chance and convinces her to change direction and gamble on a ballad.
3Episode 329 Sept 2014 · 60m · ★ 9.0The success of her first single, 'Anyone Who Had a Heart' is soon followed by a second single, 'You're My World' which goes to number one. However she fails to break America, and her relationship with Bobby is beginning to have an affect on her success.
Details
- First aired
- 15 Sept 2014
- Last aired
- 29 Sept 2014
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- ITV1
- Episodes
- 3
- Votes
- 14 on TMDB
Cast
Sheridan SmithCilla Black
Aneurin BarnardBobby Willis
Ed StoppardBrian Epstein
John HenshawJohn White
Melanie HillPriscilla White
Ceri DupreeDanny La Rue- TTom DunleaRingo Starr
Jack FarthingJohn Lennon
Kevin MainsPaul McCartney
Michael HawkinsGeorge Harrison
Elliot CowanGeorge Martin
Shaun MasonTrevor- KKate FitzgeraldVera
- CChris OrtonButler
