{"id":326612,"date":"2025-12-04T06:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T06:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326612\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T06:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T06:36:08","slug":"bbc-acquires-new-the-beatles-biopic-series-hamburg-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326612\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC acquires new The Beatles biopic series, ‘Hamburg Days’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new drama series, Hamburg Days, charting the early days of the Beatles<\/a> as a band is coming to the BBC.<\/p>\n

The show is based on the autobiography by Klaus Voormann, who is also a consultant on the series and is set in the early 1960s.<\/p>\n

A synopsis reads: \u201cIn the smoke-filled clubs of Hamburg\u2019s St. Pauli\u2019s red-light district, an
inexperienced young rock \u2018n\u2019 roll band from Liverpool collide with two young artists, Klaus Voormann and Astrid Kirchherr. Together they help spark a transformation that turns a scrappy group of teenagers into the greatest music phenomenon the world has ever known: The Beatles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sue Deeks, Head of Scripted Pre-buy Acquisitions at the BBC, said in a press release: \u201cHamburg Days is the fascinating story of how, in the space of two short years, a raw young band from Liverpool honed their music skills in Hamburg, before returning home to become an overnight worldwide success. It is an incredible story, accompanied (of course) by an amazing soundtrack!\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the only retelling of the Fab Four\u2019s story to have been announced or released lately. The most recent is \u2018The Beatles Anthology\u2019,<\/a> a remastered version of a 1995 documentary series that expands it from eight episodes to nine.<\/p>\n

Producer and collaborator Giles Martin spoke to NME<\/a> about giving the documentary a new lease of life. He noted a vast improvement in the audio and video quality, as well as the sense of togetherness in the band that it showcases.<\/p>\n

\"RingoRingo Starr, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and John Lennon. CREDIT: Disney<\/p>\n

\u201cThe episodes first came out in the \u201890s in the days of things being shot on video,\u201d explained. \u201cPeter Jackson\u2019s team can restore everything. It\u2019s amazing with the benefit of hindsight. In the years before \u2018Anthology\u2019 first came out, no one was talking about The Beatles in that whole chasm of time. Since then, that triggered a plethora of stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

It earned a four-star review<\/a> from NME, which read: \u201cThis entire rerelease, though, is more than justified by the genuinely eye-opening final episode, which sees the lads work up \u2018Free As A Bird\u2019 and \u2018Real Love\u2019, the Lennon demos put out as Beatles tracks alongside the original documentary. There is, Macca hints, a third that they may complete someday. Indeed, the elegiac \u2018Now And Then\u2019 was famously finally released in 2023. \u201cWith The Beatles,\u201d as Paul says, \u201cyou\u2019ve gotta watch out. There\u2019s always a surprise somewhere along the line.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Sam Mendes is directing four Beatles biopics<\/a>, one for each member. The Beatles \u2013 A Four-Film Cinematic Event\u00a0is currently slated for an April 2028 release.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year,\u00a0it was confirmed that Harris Dickinson will play John Lennon and Paul Mescal will portray Paul McCartney<\/a>, while Joseph Quinn and\u00a0Barry Keoghan<\/a>\u00a0will play\u00a0George Harrison<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Ringo Starr<\/a>\u00a0respectively.<\/p>\n

More recently, Saoirse Ronan was confirmed for the role<\/a> of Linda McCartney<\/a>. In addition, Aimee Lou Wood will play George Harrison\u2019s partner Pattie Boyd, Anna Sawai will portray\u00a0Yoko Ono<\/a> and Mia McKenna-Bruce will take on the role of Maureen Starkey, the wife of Starr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new drama series, Hamburg Days, charting the early days of the Beatles as a band is coming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136,1771],"class_list":{"0":"post-326612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-rock"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}