Christopher Eccleston second series began airing in November 2017 both in the UK and the US, where "The A Word" airs on SundanceTV. A third series has now been confirmed, during his chat with the audience following a showing of Shallow Grave at the start Norwich Film Festival. Cast member Lee Ingleby quoted “We’ve always planned on doing it every two years”. Eccleston has played the lead role in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of "Macbeth" in 2018. Eccleston married Mischka in November 2011. They had their first child, Albert, in February 2012. Their second child, Esme, was born in 2013. They
Ewan McGregor also portrayed the younger Edward Bloom in the critically acclaimed film "Big Fish" (2003) alongside Albert Finney, Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman and Billy Crudup. In the same period, he also received critical acclaim for his portrayal of an amoral drifter mixed up with murder in the drama "Young Adam" (also 2003), which co-starred Tilda Swinton. McGregor voiced two successful animated features; he played the robot Rodney Copperbottom in "Robots", which also featured the voices of Halle Berry and Robin Williams, and he voiced the lead character in Gary Chapman's "Valiant" (both 2005), alongside Jim Broadbent, John Cleese and Ricky Gervais.