About
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.
Cast
Sheridan Smith
as Cilla Black
Aneurin Barnard
as Bobby Willis
Ed Stoppard
as Brian Epstein
John Henshaw
as John White
Melanie Hill
as Priscilla White
Ceri Dupree
as Danny La Rue
Tom Dunlea
as Ringo Starr
Jack Farthing
as John Lennon
Kevin Mains
as Paul McCartney
Michael Hawkins
as George Harrison
Elliot Cowan
as George Martin
Shaun Mason
as Trevor
Kate Fitzgerald
as Vera
Chris Orton
as Butler
Daniel Pirrie
as Burt Bacharach
Jay Benedict
as Ed Sullivan
Gemma Sutton
as Beryl Marsden
Seasons
Episodes
Season 1
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?
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.
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.
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