W&B TELEVISION AND TURBINE STUDIOS TO PRODUCE BEATLES BIOPIC SERIES “HAMBURG DAYS” FOR AGC TELEVISION, ZDF AND THE BBC
Los Angeles/Munich December 3, 2025 – AGC Television, German broadcaster ZDF and the BBC are teaming up to co-finance HAMBURG DAYS, a prestige drama series based on the Klaus Voormann’s autobiography about The Beatles’ early days as a band. W&B Television (a LEONINE Company) and Turbine Studios will produce. 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.
The series has begun casting and will start production in the Spring of 2026 in Hamburg and Liverpool. HAMBURG DAYS was developed by Benjamin Benedict (“Generation War”) and Jamie Carragher (“Succession”) serves as the head writer for the six-part series. Christian Schwochow (“The Crown”), one of Germany’s most successful directors and renowned for the TV film “German History X” (W&B Television), which won Best Series at Series Mania, is adached as the showrunner. British director Mat Whitecross, renowned for his acclaimed collaborations with Coldplay (“Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams”) and Oasis (“Oasis: Supersonic”), and recipient of the Silver Bear for his documentary “The Road to Guantanamo,” is set to direct. The show’s music will be curated by producer and BAFTA -winner David Holmes (Killing Eve, Ocean’s franchise). Klaus Voormann is an exclusive consultant to the show.