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Cilla

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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.

Drama

3.6 / 5

15th September 2014 - 29th September 2014
Director
Paul Whittington
Writer
Jeff Pope
Producer
Kwadjo Dajan
Top Cast
Sheridan SmithAneurin BarnardEd Stoppard
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Episode 1
15th September 2014

Episode 1

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?

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Episode 2
22nd September 2014

Episode 2

As Cilla's confidence returns, Brian Epstein gives her a second chance and convinces her to change direction and gamble on a ballad.

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Episode 3
29th September 2014

Episode 3

The 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.