Cilla (miniseries) nerves singing for Brian Epstein. A drama this good, with Smith in sparkling form, knows it can take its time to flourish." The Guardian wrote: "The third, and best, reason why Cilla is so watchable is Sheridan Smith. It's one of those extraordinary performances, like Julie Walters as Mo Mowlam, when an actress does more than play a real character; she becomes her, to the extent that it's hard for the viewer not to forget they're not actually watching a young Cilla Black. She sounds like her, too. I'd be interested to know what someone more qualified to judge (an
ITV Wales & West – including rural feature series "Coast and Country", interview series "Face to Face", archive series "Wales on TV" and documentaries such as "Crime Files" (also produced in Welsh as "Y Ditectif"). Since 1982, ITV Wales has also produced Welsh language output for S4C – in the fields of current affairs, features, drama and entertainment. Two of its flagship titles figure among S4C's longest-running and most popular programmes – the rural documentary series "Cefn Gwlad" with Dai Jones and the investigative current affairs programme "Y Byd ar Bedwar". In recent years, ITV Cymru Wales has returned to producing factual output for