Well, are we watching our Cilla tonight?

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I love Sheridan Smith but I really don't know if I can face the topic. I do like thar era though for the clothes and music.

Thanks for the link TS very juicy

I quite enjoyed it, the clothes and a few of the lines - the whole 'suitable for office work' made me smile, and her mum giving the company name in full every time.

I loved it when her mum was marvelling at the fact that she was 'the first in the family' to work in an office. She was as proud as if Cilla had been offered a place at Oxford.

Yies I lauged at that my aunt is the same age as cilla she went to the clever school andwork ec in a lawyers office she was held in high rregard and my nan used to post about our jean being a secretary

Boast about*

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I quite enjoyed it.

Chap from Blandings as John lennon!

CB said in an interview Bobbys getting the recognition he deserved.

well she had all those years to credit him didn't she? why so many years after his death and by a programme, not his wife?

Just watched it. Very watchable but the lack of authentic Scouse accents was distracting as well as S.S looking not much like Cilla (AKA MN's all-time fave celeb ). I'm so bored of seeing John Henshaw playing the same character again and again.

Sheridan Smith waaay to pretty to play Cilla!

My poor mum was forced to watch it in her care home, she's 83 with dementia and the staff thought the ladies would like to relieve their youth. Mum knew cilla from Scottie road and hated her and her family "all fur coat and no knickers !" Was usually said when she appeared on TV when I was younger. Prefixed with bloody White family thought they better than everyone else, she didn't even have a front door step Of her own, about big Cilla.

I called in yesterday and she's still moanin about having to watch it. Hair styles where wrong, people didn't talk like that, nobody screamed in the cavern until the Beatles did well, and decent girls certainly didn't snog random black guys in clubs!!

All the show has done is convince mum she was right to hate Cilla. I asked the home to let her watch something else on Monday don't think her blood pressure will take another episode.

Aw your poor mam !

Elder abuse!

Haha ye and ken. I was amazed she remembered she'd watched it usually lucky to remember what she was watching 5 mins ago. I think taking her back to where she grew up and the music etc had stuck , she often talks about home and means her home off Scottie Road before she met my dad.

Aw, my mum has dementia, and it was wonderful when something like that brought the past alive for her. A shame that they got basic things like hairstyles, accents and screaming in the Cavern so very wrong. Not sure that Cilla kissing a black man (and giving the impression it was a different fellow every night) was that inaccurate from the sounds of things! I think that bit was very clever.

I used to work on Scottie road after I graduated. Bet your man has some great memories of that time !

Oh the stories she tells about the people and the characters. At the moment that's the era she's in, she's forgotten the 40 yrs married to my dad an it's all about notre dame Everton valley where she went to school and tales of the nuns. Trips to the rotunda and the Locarno we've found some pics from 1962 when she was in and around liverpool. Looks very glam and like the cilla programme. The jeans seem to be a big feature

Brilliant - not good that she has dementia but I bet you are getting to know her from that time. I loved Paul O'Grady's books about his childhood in Liverpool , so witty

My mum and dads where both more like Helen Forrester's story v poor.

As long as I forget it's Cilla Cak I love it. Sheridan Smith is fab.

Ye Gads, she's brilliant. The exact nuance of Cilla singing. I almost wish the real Cilla was nice.

Wow Sheridan Smith can really sing - better than Cilla

That was brilliant , it's a great song .

the singing makes the rest of it worth watching ss has a gorgeous voice