ITV have now conformed that the new Cilla drama will launch on Monday September 15 at 9pm.
The three-part drama for ITV stars Sheridan Smith as the famous Liverpudlian songbird.
Sheridan will be joined in the cast by Aneurin Barnard (The White
Queen, Citadel, We’ll Take Manhatten) as Cilla’s husband Bobby, Ed
Stoppard (The Politician’s Husband, Silent Witness, Branded) as Brian
Epstein, John Henshaw (Downton Abbey, Midsomer Murders, South Riding) as
Cilla’s father, John White and Melanie Hill (Waterloo Road, Hebburn,
Merlin) is Cilla’s mother, Priscilla, known affectionately to her family
as Big Cilla.
Cilla is set in 1960s Liverpool, where the young, unknown Cilla works
in the austere environs of the typists’ pool at a local company,
dreaming of stardom. The drama looks at how she met the two men who came
to love her in very different ways - future husband Bobby Willis and
legendary manager Brian Epstein, the young businessman who also guided
the career of The Beatles.
It also looks at Cilla’s burgeoning friendship with John, Paul,
George and Ringo - the four young men who went on to conquer the music
world - shaped her career. It was family friend Ritchie Starkey
(Ringo), the teddy-boy drummer, who helped her to cross paths with Brian
Epstein in return for her doing his mum's hair.
The ITV Studios production will recount the dark days of her early
career, her on-off relationship with Bobby, a baker at Woolworth’s with
the gift of the gab, who struggled to accept Cilla’s iron determination
and sharp elbows as she fought her way to the top.
We see the young Priscilla White, (her real name), touring Liverpool
in Bobby’s Crawford’s biscuits van as she moved from the Cavern to the
Zodiac Club, to the Blue Angel Club and the Iron Door Club, chasing a
dream. But it was a meeting with shy young entrepreneur Brian Epstein,
struggling to come to terms with his homosexuality at a time when to be
gay was illegal in Britain, which was to change her life forever.
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