{"id":780760,"date":"2026-05-08T00:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/780760\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T00:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:11:14","slug":"bbc-beatles-series-hamburg-days-finds-fab-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/780760\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Beatles Series Hamburg Days Finds Fab Four"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe BBC<\/a> TV series Hamburg Days, about The Beatles<\/a>\u2019 pre-fame origins playing nightclub gigs in 1960s Germany, has cast its Fab Four.<\/p>\n

\n\tRhys Mannion has been tapped\u00a0to play John Lennon, Ellis Murphy\u00a0is Paul McCartney, newcomer\u00a0Harvey Brett\u00a0will play George Harrison and Louis Landau\u00a0is Stu Sutcliffe, the drummer in the upstart band who walked away before replacement Ringo Starr took up the drumsticks. The legendary band went on to dominate the music industry for an entire decade from 1960. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe six-part drama from W&B Television and Turbine Studios has also cast Patrick Gilmore\u00a0as Pete Best,\u00a0Luna Jordan\u00a0as Astrid Kirchherr,\u00a0Casper von Bulow as Klaus Voorman,\u00a0Laura Tonke\u00a0as Nielsa Kirchherr,\u00a0along with Trystan P\u00fctter\u00a0and\u00a0Max von der Groeben.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Beatles broke up in 1970 after a period of wild popularity. They are the bestselling music act of all time, with an estimated 600 million units sold around the world. In December 1980, Lennon was shot and killed outside his apartment in New York City.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hamburg Days series financed by AGC Television and German broadcaster coincides with Sony producing Sam Mendes<\/a>\u2019 four-film Beatles event movies series<\/a>, as each installment focuses on a different Beatles member. The theatrical version will star<\/a> Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn is George Harrison and Barry Keoghan will be Ringo Starr.<\/p>\n

\n\tHamburg Days, now shooting in Hamburg, Munich and Liverpool, is inspired by Klaus Voorman\u2019s autobiography, and is showrun by Christian Schwochow and has Jamie Carragher (Succession) as the head writer. The series is set in smoke-filled clubs of in Hamburg\u2019s red-light district where the young Liverpool lads meet young artists Klaus Voormann and Astrid Kirchherr.<\/p>\n

\n\tBenjamin Benedict developed Hamburg Days, which Schwochow and Laura Lackmann will direct. The executive producer credits are shared by Benedict, Quirin Berg, Max Wiedemann, Andrew Eaton, Justin Thomson, Stuart Ford<\/a>, Lourdes Diaz and Miguel A. Palos Jr. Isabel Haug and Katharina Haase are producing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAGC International is handling worldwide sales outside the U.K. and Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC TV series Hamburg Days, about The Beatles\u2019 pre-fame origins playing nightclub gigs in 1960s Germany, has…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":780761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[6531,171,975,27990,319549,978,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-780760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-sam-mendes","12":"tag-stuart-ford","13":"tag-the-beatles","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116536061855146451","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}