{"id":629897,"date":"2026-05-08T00:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/629897\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T00:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:18:08","slug":"meet-the-beatles-cast-unveiled-for-bbc-zdf-series-hamburg-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/629897\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Beatles! Cast Unveiled For BBC\/ZDF Series ‘Hamburg Days’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCameras are officially rolling on Hamburg Days<\/a>, a prestige drama series chronicling the early years of The Beatles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tW&B Television, Turbine Studios, and co-financier AGC Television<\/a> have announced who will be playing the Liverpool legends in the six-part drama, which is backed by German network ZDF and has been acquired by the BBC. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe biopic is based on Klaus Voormann\u2019s book of the same name. Voormann, a musician and artist, was a close companion of the band in the early 1960s. He lived with Ringo Starr and George Harrison and designed the cover of the Beatles album\u00a0Revolver.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHamburg Days will star Rhys Mannion (It Is In Us All) as John Lennon, Liverpudlian singer-songwriter Ellis Murphy as Paul McCartney, newcomer Harvey Brett as George Harrison, Louis Landau (Rivals) as Stu Sutcliffe, newcomer Patrick Gilmore as Pete Best, Luna Jordan (Wild Republic) as Astrid Kirchherr, Casper von B\u00fclow (Druck) as Klaus Voorman, Laura Tonke (22 Lenghts) as Nielsa Kirchherr, Trystan P\u00fctter (Ku\u2019damm 56-63), and Max von der Groeben (Fack Ju G\u00f6hte).<\/p>\n

\n\tCreated by showrunner showrunner Christian Schwochow (The Crown) and head writer Jamie Carragher (Succession), here\u2019s the logline: \u201cSet in the 1960s, in the smoke-filled clubs of Hamburg\u2019s St. Pauli 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

\n\tHamburg Days was developed by Benjamin Benedict. Schwochow is directing with Laura Lackmann (Call my Agent Berlin), while Frank Lamm (Andor) is director\u00a0of photography. Voormann\u00a0is a consultant to the show.<\/p>\n

\n\tExecutive producers are Benedict, Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann of W&B Television; Andrew Eaton and Justin Thomson of Turbine Studios and AGC\u2019s Stuart Ford; Lourdes Diaz and Miguel A. Palos Jr. Isabel Haug of W&B Television and Katharina Haase serve as producers. At ZDF, the project is overseen by Alexandra Staib, Caroline von Senden und Sandra Dettki. Hamburg Days is being produced with the support of the German Motion Picture Fund, MOIN Filmf\u00f6rderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg.<\/p>\n

\n\tAGC International is handling\u00a0worldwide sales outside the UK and Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameras are officially rolling on Hamburg Days, a prestige drama series chronicling the early years of The Beatles.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[272431,88,272432,216,13979],"class_list":["post-629897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-agc-television","tag-entertainment","tag-hamburg-days","tag-music","tag-the-beatles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}