Taylor Swift has announced a docuseries that will follow the creation of her history-making Eras tour.
Disney+ will air the six-episode series The End of an Era from 12 December onwards, with the first two episodes launching on that date. Two episodes will air each week in the following two weeks. There will also be a separate film of the final concert of the Eras tour at Vancouver’s BC Place, entitled The Eras Tour | The Final Show, airing from 12 December.
“It was the End of an Era and we knew it,” Swift wrote on Instagram, announcing the projects. “We wanted to remember every moment leading up to the culmination of the most important and intense chapter of our lives, so we allowed film-makers to capture this tour and all the stories woven throughout it as it wound down. And to film the final show in its entirety.”
Between March 2023 and December 2024, Eras encompassed 149 concerts across five continents and became the highest-grossing concert tour in history, with over $2bn in ticket sales. With a runtime of more than three and a half hours, and later described by Swift as “absolutely the most challenging thing I’ve ever done in my life”, its setlist drew from all but one of Swift’s studio albums, with the later shows adding material from her 2024 album The Tortured Poets Department.
Swift has already released a filmed version of the tour, entitled Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, but its October 2023 release date meant it did not feature The Tortured Poets Department material. It became the highest-grossing tour film of all time, earning $267m from its global run in cinemas.
It was later available to stream on Disney+. Financial terms for that deal, and for the new filmed projects, have not been made public.
With Swift’s reference to “all the stories woven throughout [Eras] as it wound down”, the series could document the creation of her latest album The Life of a Showgirl, which was made in part during the Eras tour. “What it ended up doing was like reinvigorating every single aspect of my life, including the tour,” she has said.
The Life of a Showgirl, her 12th studio album, was released on 3 October and has been one of Swift’s most commercially successful but critically divisive albums.
It has the largest single-week sales of any album in US history, beating the record set by Adele’s 25, and the second-highest in UK history, behind Ed Sheeran’s ÷. But the Guardian’s Alexis Petridis wrote that the album has a “distinct lack of undeniable hooks and nailed-on melodies” – one of a number of relatively rare negative reviews for Swift, with Pitchfork, the Standard and others also criticising the album.
