BBC's Hamburg Days taps Fab Four for Beatles origins drama

BBC's six-part Beatles origin drama Hamburg Days has cast its Fab Four: Rhys Mannion as John Lennon, Ellis Murphy as Paul McCartney, Harvey Brett as George Harrison, and Louis Landau as Stu Sutcliffe, with Patrick Gilmore as Pete Best and Luna Jordan as Astrid Kirchherr; the series from W&B Television and Turbine Studios follows the young Beatles in Hamburg's clubs before their rise to fame, and is currently filming in Hamburg, Munich and Liverpool.