Jeff Pope‘s CILLA starring UA’s Ed Stoppard along with Sheridan Smith and Aneurin Barnard starts tonight on ITV at 9pm.
Music is composed by Niall Byrne.
The three-part drama charts Cilla Black’s rise to fame in the 1960s. As the series opens, Priscilla 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?
