Further casting has been announced for HAMBURG DAYS, the prestige six-part drama series created by showrunner Christian Schwochow (The Crown, Munich – The Edge of War) and head writer Jamie Carragher (Succession) currently shooting in Hamburg. Produced by W&B Television, Turbine Studios and co-financiers AGC Television for German broadcaster ZDF, the BBC has acquired the series for BBC iPlayer and BBC One.
Asa Butterfield (Sex Education, Unchosen) has joined the cast as Beatles manager Brian Epstein, while Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting, The Crown) will play Jim McCartney, the father of Paul McCartney. Also joining the series are Christine Tremarco (Adolescence, The Responder) as John Lennon’s guardian Aunt Mimi, Darci Shaw (A Thousand Blows, This City is Ours) as Cynthia Lennon, Ryan Sampson (Mr Bigstuff, Brassic) as Liverpool promoter Alan Williams, Archie George as singer Tony Sheridan, Jorden Myrie (Sherwood, The Strays) as Lord Woodbine, Lea Drinda (The Sound Of Falling, Where’s Wanda?) as Astrid Kirchherr, Tash Major (Finding Emily, Saviour) as Dot Rhone, and Louis McCartney (Stranger Things: The First Shadow) who will play Ringo Starr.
They join the previously announced cast including Rhys Mannion as John Lennon, Ellis Murphy as Paul McCartney, Harvey Brett as George Harrison, Louis Landau as Stu Sutcliffe, Patrick Gilmore as Pete Best, and Casper von Bülow as Klaus Voormann
HAMBURG DAYS is set in the early 1960s in the smoke-filled clubs of Hamburg’s St. Pauli red-light district, where an inexperienced young rock ’n’ roll band from Liverpool collides 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.
W&B Television and Turbine Studios are producing the series with music curated by David Holmes (Killing Eve, Ocean’s franchise). Hamburg Days was developed by Benjamin Benedict (Generation War) and is written by Jamie Carragher, who also serves as executive producer. Showrunner and executive producer Christian Schwochow (The Crown, Munich – The Edge of War) is directing alongside Laura Lackmann (Call My Agent Berlin, The Pimp: No F***ing Fairytale). Frank Lamm (Andor, The Crown) serves as director of photography. Klaus Voormann is an exclusive consultant to the series.
Executive producers are 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., Isabel Haug and Charles Breitkreuz for W&B Television and Katharina Haase serve as producers. At ZDF, the project is overseen by Alexandra Staib, Caroline von Senden and Sandra Dettki.
HAMBURG DAYS is being produced with the support of the German Motion Picture Fund (GMPF), MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg.
Inspired by German artist Klaus Voormann's autobiography about The Beatles’ formative years, the series is currently filming in Hamburg, Munich and Liverpool and will air in the UK on BBC iPlayer and BBC One.
AGC International is handling worldwide sales outside the UK (BBC) and Germany (ZDF).
For further information please contact:
Ian Thomson
McAinsh Consulting
ian@mcainshconsulting.com
