{"id":2163494,"date":"2025-11-18T03:28:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2163494"},"modified":"2025-11-18T03:28:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:28:55","slug":"beatles-anthology-on-disney-gets-new-episode-your-sneak-peek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/beatles-anthology-on-disney-gets-new-episode-your-sneak-peek\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Beatles Anthology&#8217; on Disney+ gets new episode. Your sneak peek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><story-emphasis util-module-path=\"elements\/story\" section=\"entertainment\" link=\"\/entertainment\"\/><\/p>\n<hr class=\"colorbar section-entertainment\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"display-5 subhead spacer-small\">&#8216;The Beatles Anthology&#8217; is fully restored by Peter Jackson&#8217;s team and expanded with a new episode on Disney+ for the documentary&#8217;s 30th anniversary.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\"><media-video video-id=\"77187605007\" title=\"Beatles bandmates McCartney, Starr perform classics during UK show\" poster=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/04\/01\/USAT\/82749894007-paul-mccartney-wings-book.jpg?crop=1501,844,x0,y200\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\" placement=\"snow-video-story-priority\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">\n<p>Beatles bandmates McCartney, Starr perform classics during UK show<\/p>\n<p>Paul McCartney brought out Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr during his Got Back tour stop in London.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/media-video><\/div>\n<p><story-highlights class=\"spacer-small column ten-column no-gutter\" util-module-path=\"elements\/story\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The Beatles Anthology&#8221; will stream on Disney+ starting Nov. 26 to mark the 30th anniversary of the docuseries.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Get Back&#8221; director Peter Jackson and his team have restored the 1995 documentary, and Oliver Murray directs a new ninth episode with unseen footage.<\/li>\n<li>Giles Martin, son of George Martin, has remastered the music for the three companion &#8220;Anthology&#8221; albums and compiled a fourth volume of music.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/story-highlights><partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p>The realization is sweet and slightly heartbreaking. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2024\/08\/23\/the-beatles-untold-story-1964\/74904577007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Beatles<\/a> miss The Beatles, too.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"\/>\n<p>Ringo Starr plaintively tells Paul McCartney and George Harrison that it&#8217;s been a &#8220;really beautiful&#8221; day as the three lounge on a blanket outside Harrison&#8217;s Friar Park home in a new ninth episode of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/08\/21\/the-beatles-anthology-documentary-music-book\/85742991007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/08\/21\/the-beatles-anthology-documentary-music-book\/85742991007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;The Beatles Anthology&#8221;<\/a> on Disney+. (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.disneyplus.com\/whats-on\/series\/the-beatles-anthology?msockid=30a6a77293ae618c0c6bb4f592bc6058\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.disneyplus.com\/whats-on\/series\/the-beatles-anthology?msockid=30a6a77293ae618c0c6bb4f592bc6058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Episodes 1-3 launch Nov. 26<\/a>, followed by Episodes 4-6 on Nov. 27 and Episodes 7-9 on Nov. 28.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an unapologetically sentimental moment in the 51-minute coda to the 1995 docuseries. In a sneak peek at the episode provided to USA TODAY, the three old friends greet each other with hugs, happily jam together on &#8220;Blue Moon of Kentucky&#8221; and &#8220;Ain&#8217;t She Sweet,&#8221; and joke about teaming up for a stadium reunion tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">Join our Watch Party! <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/profile.usatoday.com\/newsletters\/watch-party\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to receive USA TODAY&#8217;s movie and TV recommendations right in your inbox<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><media-image image-set=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/08\/20\/USAT\/85743152007-the-beatles-34120-anthology-hires.jpg bestCrop, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/08\/20\/USAT\/85743152007-the-beatles-34120-anthology-hires.jpg?crop=3159,2369,x0,y0 4:3, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/08\/20\/USAT\/85743152007-the-beatles-34120-anthology-hires.jpg?crop=1777,2369,x177,y0 3:4, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/08\/20\/USAT\/85743152007-the-beatles-34120-anthology-hires.jpg?crop=3542,1993,x0,y188 16:9\" image-alt=\"\" credit=\"Bruce McBroom, Apple Corps Ltd\" caption=\"Ringo Starr (from left), Paul McCartney, George Harrison and John Lennon get to tell their own stories in the restored and expanded docuseries &quot;The Beatles Anthology&quot; on Disney+.\" orientation=\"horizontal\" class=\"spacer-large\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thirty years after ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Anthology&#8221; became a television sensation viewed by an estimated 420 million fans worldwide, the newly restored docuseries is returning for the long Thanksgiving weekend, spiffed up with 2025 technology by Peter Jackson&#8217;s Park Road Post production team. The three companion &#8220;Anthology&#8221; albums of rare recordings \u2212 freshly remastered by Giles Martin, son of longtime Beatles producer George Martin, who died in 2016 \u2212 are getting a fourth volume of 13 previous unreleased demos and session recordings (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeatles.com\/anthology-music-2025\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thebeatles.com\/anthology-music-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">out Nov. 21<\/a>).<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"\/><partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p>For the new ninth episode, director Oliver Murray takes a similar approach to what Jackson did with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2021\/11\/22\/beatles-get-back-peter-jackson-disney-plus-documentary\/8715582002\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2021\/11\/22\/beatles-get-back-peter-jackson-disney-plus-documentary\/8715582002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the 2021 Beatles documentary &#8220;Get Back&#8221;<\/a> (itself an expanded recut of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2024\/05\/07\/the-beatles-let-it-be-on-disney-plus\/73589818007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2024\/05\/07\/the-beatles-let-it-be-on-disney-plus\/73589818007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1970&#8217;s &#8220;Let It Be&#8221;<\/a>): He pulls the camera back and shares never-seen moments that were nipped off in the original edit. One such standout is an intimate glimpse of the three Beatles&#8217; wives (Linda McCartney, Olivia Harrison and Barbara Bach) warmly greeting the reunited bandmates.<\/p>\n<p>The melancholic project plays like a farewell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s funny with The Beatles, you always feel there is an air of finality about things, and then people want more,&#8221; says Martin, who serves as music supervisor for the docuseries, and points to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2025\/04\/01\/the-beatles-movies-cinemacon\/82751965007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2025\/04\/01\/the-beatles-movies-cinemacon\/82751965007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sam Mendes&#8217; four Beatles biopics<\/a> (expected in 2028). &#8220;The music will never be final, which is the best thing I can say about The Beatles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Episode 9 focuses heavily on behind-the-scenes footage of McCartney, Harrison and Starr reminiscing, sifting through old session recordings and working on &#8220;Anthology&#8221; songs &#8220;Free as a Bird,&#8221; &#8220;Real Love&#8221; and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2023\/11\/02\/beatles-last-song-now-and-then-reminds-us-why-theyre-the-best\/71403603007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2023\/11\/02\/beatles-last-song-now-and-then-reminds-us-why-theyre-the-best\/71403603007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Now and Then.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among the new additions that fans can look forward to:<\/p>\n<p><media-image image-set=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/11\/17\/USAT\/87314274007-rs-490-1966-roll-4-010.jpg bestCrop, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/11\/17\/USAT\/87314274007-rs-490-1966-roll-4-010.jpg?crop=3570,2678,x0,y0 4:3, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/11\/17\/USAT\/87314274007-rs-490-1966-roll-4-010.jpg?crop=2502,3335,x714,y0 3:4, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/11\/17\/USAT\/87314274007-rs-490-1966-roll-4-010.jpg?crop=3570,2009,x0,y333 16:9\" image-alt=\"\" credit=\"Apple Corps Ltd.\" caption=\"George Harrison (from left), John Lennon, Ringo Starr (background) and Paul McCartney as seen in the 1966 music video for The Beatles' &quot;Rain.&quot;\" orientation=\"horizontal\" class=\"spacer-large\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\"\/><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There&#8217;s video of McCartney working out &#8220;Helter Skelter&#8221; on acoustic guitar \u2212 a wow moment that recalls Paul conjuring &#8220;Get Back&#8221; out of thin air in Jackson&#8217;s previous documentary.<\/li>\n<li>The three Beatles address why they nixed Apple head Neil Aspinall&#8217;s proposal for an official documentary in the early &#8217;70s called &#8220;The Long and Winding Road.&#8221; All agree that the film couldn&#8217;t have been made even in 1975. &#8220;We were at war then,&#8221; McCartney says.<\/li>\n<li>Harrison receives a sizable share of screen time and is uncharacteristically wistful. He says he feels badly that John Lennon, who was fatally shot in 1980, didn&#8217;t get the closure of working on &#8220;Anthology&#8221;: &#8220;I think he would have enjoyed this opportunity to get together with us.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Starr gets the heartfelt final word. Hankies required.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"\/><media-gallery-promo asset-id=\"82766392007\" class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-large\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Paul has been alive longer since John died than before John died, if you think about it,&#8221; says Martin, who sees truth in Harrison&#8217;s observation that &#8220;The Beatles live in a different universe, regardless whether we&#8217;re around or not. It&#8217;s no longer us, it&#8217;s whatever anyone takes from it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No human can sustain the power of The Beatles,&#8221; Martin says. &#8220;It&#8217;s a bit like serving The Avengers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><cta-atoms-container-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/cta\" class=\"spacer-large\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>Contributing: Melissa Ruggieri<\/em><\/p>\n<lit-timestamp class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-small\" slot=\"timestamp\" publishdate=\"2025-11-17 16:27:44.577674554 +0000 UTC\" updatedate=\"2025-11-17 20:28:10.465883158 +0000 UTC\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usatoday.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The Beatles Anthology&#8217; is fully restored by Peter Jackson&#8217;s team and expanded with a new episode on Disney+ for the documentary&#8217;s 30th anniversary. 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