CILLA on ITV

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?