# I'd love to see a cable series on the Beatles' career.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-a-cable-series-on-the-beatles-career/778031>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 24, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-a-cable-series-on-the-beatles-career/778031 "2017-01-24T14:21:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-a-cable-series-on-the-beatles-career/778031/21 "2017-01-25T08:10:58Z")

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> [@blondebear](#):
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> Ron Howard’s recent “Eight Days A Week-The Touring Years” is sort of an Anthology-lite… **it isn’t popular with purists** , but it’s definitely worth watching if you’re a casual fan.

Why wasn’t Ron Howard’s film popular with purists? 😕

NOTE: Edits and bolding by me.

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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-a-cable-series-on-the-beatles-career/778031/22 "2017-01-25T16:23:30Z")

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> [@JpnDude](#):
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> Why wasn’t Ron Howard’s film popular with purists?

Hmmm…instead of “purists”, maybe I should’ve used the term “hard core Beatle nerds” instead. There’s a thread on the Steve Hoffman boards with over 5000 posts where certain people complain about colorization, overdubbing, fake cigarette smoke, why didn’t they show performance X instead of Y which we’ve already seen, how come they edited out this or that, why bother with this movie when we already have Anthology…you get the idea.

Now, I have to say, the nit-pickers are extremely knowledgeable about the subject, but it seems that all that knowledge sometimes gets in the way of being able to just enjoy the film. To be fair, many of the Hoffmanites did like it. I saw the movie 3 times and loved every minute of it.

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-a-cable-series-on-the-beatles-career/778031/23 "2017-01-25T17:06:19Z")

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> [@CarnalK](#):
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> Wait a sec, what am I supposed to be looking at there? I don’t see the Beatles.

Alphabetically, they are under “The Beatles”. If you click the data column for that group it’s much clearer.

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