Asa Butterfield, Jonny Lee Miller, and Christine Tremarco Cast in BBC’s New ‘Hamburg Days’ Beatles Drama

Asa Butterfield, Jonny Lee Miller, and Adolescence star Christine Tremarco have been cast in the upcoming six‑part BBC Beatles drama.

Hamburg Days was created by The Crown’s Christian Schwochow and head writer Jamie Carragher (Succession), and is currently filming in Hamburg, where the band performed over 250 shows.

As an alum of *Sex Education*, Butterfield has joined the cast as Beatles manager Brian Epstein, while Miller (Trainspotting) will play Jim McCartney, the father of Paul McCartney, and Tremarco, John Lennon’s guardian Aunt Mimi.

Additional cast members confirmed this week include Darci Shaw as Cynthia Lennon, Ryan Sampson as Liverpool promoter Alan Williams, Archie George as singer Tony Sheridan, Jorden Myrie as Lord Woodbine, Lea Drinda as Astrid Kirchherr, Tash Major as Dot Rhone, and Louis McCartney as Ringo Starr.

They join previously announced cast members Rhys Mannion as Lennon, Ellis Murphy as 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 Liverpool rock ’n’ roll band encounters two young artists, Klaus Voormann and Astrid Kirchherr. Together, they spark a transformation that elevates the scrappy group of teenagers into the world’s greatest music phenomenon.

W&B Television and Turbine Studios are producing the series, with music curated by producer David Holmes (Killing Eve). Hamburg Days was developed by Benjamin Benedict (Generation War) and written by Jamie Carragher, who also serves as executive producer. Showrunner and executive producer Christian Schwochow directs alongside Laura Lackmann (Call My Agent Berlin). Frank Lamm (Andor) serves as director of photography, and Klaus Voormann acts as an exclusive consultant to the series.

The series will premiere in the U.K. on BBC iPlayer and BBC One. AGC International handles worldwide sales outside the U.K. (BBC) and Germany (ZDF).

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