Taylor Swift's sixth variant of her "The Life of a Showgirl" album is "Baby, That's Show Business."

Confirming a widely believed fan theory, Taylor Swift finally announced she's releasing an Eras Tour six-part docuseries.

The singer-songwriter shared the news on "Good Morning America" on (naturally) Oct. 13.

"It was the end of an era and we knew it," Swift shared in a post on X. "We wanted to remember every moment leading up to the culmination of the most important and intense chapter of our lives, so we allowed filmmakers to capture this tour and all the stories woven throughout it as it wound down. And to film the final show in its entirety."

The singer-songwriter revealed the long-awaited behind-the-scenes footage will debut on Dec. 12 on Disney+ and Hulu with the first two episodes. The docuseries, dubbed "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The End of an Era," will be released as well as "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show" movie featuring "The Tortured Poets Department" section of her blockbuster concert.

After that, two episodes will drop each week.

The series will spotlight performers (see the cast here), family members and friends — including Gracie Abrams, Sabrina Carpenter, Ed Sheeran and Florence Welch.

The announcement came on the heels of "GMA" – which, along with the streaming services, is under the Disney umbrella – releasing a trailer teasing the docuseries on Oct. 12. The last slide showed logos for the two streamers, leaving almost no doubt about where the footage will land.

This is the singer's third time releasing a project with Disney, following 2020's "Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions" and 2023's "Eras Tour" concert movie.

The ABC morning show is where Swift first divulged she was going on her career-spanning tour.

"I wanted to tell you something that I've been so excited about for a really long time and I've been planning for ages, and I finally get to tell you I'm going back on tour. The tour is called the Eras Tour, and it's a journey through all of my musical eras of my career," she said in November 2022.

'I think I've seen this film before'

Turns out, the "Exile" singer has been setting the stage for her cinematic act long before "The Life of a Showgirl" released. Cameras began rolling as early as August 2024 in London, where she premiered the music video for "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart." The three-minute reel gave fans a peek behind the velvet curtain — from Swift diving into the stage trap door to hiding in the now-iconic cleaning cart before each show.

But the footage barely scratched the surface. Fans spotted film crews in the wings and following her to and from stage. The same production followed around for her return to North America in fall 2024 and potentially captured the following: Travis Kelce's quick hug with her publicist in Indianapolis, the "Folklore" cottage cameraman crouched in plain sight in Indianapolis and a lucky fan in Miami being chosen for the "22" hat moment.

Even Swift’s mom, Andrea, got her close-up, bracelet stack and all, while spreading the friendship at Hard Rock Stadium.

In Swift's "For a Fortnight Challenge" video on YouTube, she hinted to a possible documentary with rare rehearsal clips and unseen "Tortured Poets Department" set footage.

By the time the tour hit Vancouver − her last stop on the Eras Tour – the stage glittered with two flyover cameras, jib arms, rolling camera tracks along the stage and microphones aimed squarely at the crowd. Signs warning about the use of drones were also taped on doors at BC Place Stadium.

"This is so serious," Addy Miller, a concertgoer, noted on X.

Taylor Swift's movies and documentaries

Swift has produced and directed plenty of her own visuals from "All Too Well: The Short Film" to Netflix's "Reputation Stadium Tour." Here's a look back at some of her concert movies and documentaries:

2023: 'The Eras Tour' in AMC theaters, Disney+

The first year of the three-hour show is available to stream on Disney+.

Shot during three of her Los Angeles concerts in 2023, the movie offers the first version of the concert before Swift added a "Tortured Poets" set and scrambled the eras. The movie grossed more than $250 million worldwide and was nominated for a Golden Globe award.

Swift made a deal with labor unions during the SAG-AFTRA strike and bypassed traditional studios to partner with AMC Theatres Distribution for a theatrical release.

2020: 'Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions' on Disney+

In 2020, Taylor Swift dropped two surprise sister albums and later invited fans into her creative world with "Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions" on Disney+. The 106-minute documentary, directed and produced by Swift, was filmed at Aaron Dessner's secluded Long Pond Studio in New York's Hudson Valley.

Seated beside Dessner and Jack Antonoff, she shared stories behind each track from her eighth album, the Grammy-winning "Folklore."

"I sort of unexpectedly started writing the new album," Swift said. "I was just writing songs in quarantine, and then it became an album really quickly."

2020: 'City of Lover' concert

In September 2019, Swift brought her seventh studio album, "Lover," to life with an intimate one-hour concert for 2,000 fans in Paris.

She was meant to tour her seventh era with Lover Fest, a four-show celebration planned for Boston and Los Angeles. But when the COVID-19 pandemic halted live music, the dream was shelved. Instead, Swift released a 42-minute televised special, in which she performed eight stripped-down acoustic songs, in May 2020.

2020: 'Miss Americana' on Netflix

"Miss Americana" – titled after Track 7 from "Lover" – premiered on Netflix on Jan. 31, 2020. The documentary pulled back the curtain on one of Taylor Swift's most vulnerable chapters, capturing her reckoning with fame, body image issues and the pressure to please everyone, while also embracing her voice in LGBTQ+ advocacy and confronting online toxicity.

"Nobody physically saw me for a year," Swift admitted. "And that was what I thought they wanted. I had to deconstruct an entire belief system. Toss it out and reject it."

2018: 'Reputation Stadium Tour' on Netflix

Taylor Swift's "Reputation Stadium Tour" concert film, shot in Arlington, Texas, captured the singer at her fiercest. She brought her sixth album to life with a 30-foot inflatable cobra named Karyn.

Swift offered amoments of introspection in between songs, including when she said, "I think the things that can scare us the most in life are the things that we think will threaten the prospect of us finding something real. Having a bad reputation, in our mind, could get in the way of you finding real friendship, real love, real acceptance, people you really fit in with."

It appears the concert movie is no longer accessible on Netflix.

2015: 'The 1989 World Tour Live'

Footage showing Swift in her fifth era, "1989," was shot in Sydney, Australia, in November 2015. concert film movie was released through Apple Music less than a month later, on Dec. 20. With a runtime of just over two hours, the movie included rehearsal footage, an interview and backstage clips.

2011: 'Speak Now World Tour Live'

In the third era of enchanting meetings and wonderstruck fantasies, Swift's label Big Machine Records released a film in November 2011 that included footage shot at multiple shows. The label also released an album of live performances with the singer sporting her famous "13" written on the back of her hands in Sharpies.

2010: 'Journey to Fearless'

"Journey to Fearless" followed the tour of Swift's second era. Over 135 minutes, the three episodes explored how a girl fearlessly pursued her big dreams. The movie had 13 live numbers, home movies, interviews and behind-the-scenes footage.

"That arena sold out in two minutes," a young Swift said before exclaiming, "What?!"

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This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Taylor Swift's Eras Tour documentary is a long time coming – and it's dropping on Disney+

Reporting by Bryan West, USA TODAY NETWORK / Nashville Tennessean

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