AGC Television, German broadcaster ZDF, and the BBC will co-finance Hamburg Days, a new Beatles biopic, based on Klaus Voormann’s book about the band’s early years.
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 Revolver.
W&B Television and Turbine Studios will produce the series, which will run across six parts. Benjamin Benedict, Quirin Berg, and Max Wiedemann of W&B Television, Andrew Eaton and Justin Thomson of Turbine Studios, and AGC’s Stuart Ford, Lourdes Diaz, and Miguel A. Palos Jr. will act as Executive Producers. Isabel Haug of W&B Television serves as a creative producer.
At ZDF, the project is overseen by Frank Zervos, Caroline von Senden, and Alexandra Staib. The BBC has acquired the series for BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The series production is supported by MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein.
We’re told the series has begun casting and will start production in Spring 2026 in Hamburg and Liverpool. The series was developed by Benjamin Benedict (Generation War), and Jamie Carragher (Succession) serves as the head writer. Christian Schwochow (The Crown) is attached as the showrunner. British director Mat Whitecross (Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams) is set to direct. The show’s music will be curated by producer David Holmes (Killing Eve). Voormann is a consultant to the show.
The synopsis reads: Set in the 1960s, in the smoke-filled clubs of Hamburg’s St. Pauli red-light district, an inexperienced young rock ‘n’ 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.
AGC International will handle worldwide sales outside the UK (BBC) and Germany (ZDF).
