Beatles Anthology 2025

@astrohip wrote:
There is currently a "Beatles Anthology" in the db, but it refers to the 1995 ABC version. There is a newly remastered version, with more episodes, airing on Disney+, starting Nov 26, 2025.

Would it be possible to get a new listing for this? Totally new would be best, not a revised old one.

Thanks!!

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The restored version will include one additional episode, "featuring previously unreleased footage of Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr during the creation of the original 1990s “Anthology” series and music project."
Obviously, it is less than 25%, so I suppose it doesn't warrant creating a new entry (considering that the other 8 episodes are expected to be the same, just improved in quality). So I wonder, what is the best course of action for that new episode: add it without an airdate, or add it as a special?

Here's the detailed press release for the restored version.

@obdue wrote:
The restored version will include one additional episode, "featuring previously unreleased footage of Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr during the creation of the original 1990s “Anthology” series and music project."
Obviously, it is less than 25%, so I suppose it doesn't warrant creating a new entry (considering that the other 8 episodes are expected to be the same, just improved in quality). So I wonder, what is the best course of action for that new episode: add it without an airdate, or add it as a special?

Here's the detailed press release for the restored version.

Agreed It looks like Peter Jackson's team merely restored the previous episodes and added a ninth. The current listing does not have episode summaries, so using the ones in the press release could be used there. 

Something like this: 

Episode 1 -- And so the story begins. As a kind of overture, “Anthology” opens with glimpses of The Beatles’ career accompanied by “In My Life” from “Rubber Soul,” with its evocative and moving mentions of “places I’ll remember, all my life,” and “people and things that went before.” Those words point to one key place and time: Liverpool in the early 1940s, the backdrop to the births of John, Paul, George and Ringo, and everything that formed them.

Episode 2 -- In this phase of The Beatles’ progress, there’s a sense of the four of them rapidly making their way up a staircase, going from theatres and ballrooms around their native country to massed adulation across the world. And as that story takes shape, there are regular stories that highlight their amazing closeness.

Episode 3 -- This instalment is defined by what happened next: a first trip to America that still brims with fascination and iconic imagery. It all begins in New York, where they play at Carnegie Hall and deliver their era-changing performance on the “Ed Sullivan Show,” which draws a record-breaking 73 million viewers.

Etc. Basically the first paragraph of each listing. Or, use the press release to create an episode synopsis. 

UPDATE: 

Let's hold off on doing anything for the moment. A closer read of the press release does state that the existing episodes are being edited down from their original length. Staff need to decide the best way to handle this before moving forward. 

@LadyShelley wrote:
UPDATE: 

Let's hold off on doing anything for the moment. A closer read of the press release does state that the existing episodes are being edited down from their original length. Staff need to decide the best way to handle this before moving forward. 

Worth mentioning that your current listing doesn't seem factually correct. 8 episodes are an extended home video version (I have it on DVD). Each episode runtime is around 80', give or take. The TV version was 6x60' episodes long, broadcast on ABC in 3 2-hour-long segments (I assume 2 episodes per night) on Nov 19, 22, and 23, 1995 (could be verified starting here) and as a 6-episode mini-series on ITV (LWT), Nov 26 - Dec 31, 1995 (could be checked starting here).