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Filming underway on more of The A Word

UK drama about a family caring for their autistic son will pick up 2 years from where it left off.

Filming is underway in the UK on a second season of drama series, about a family caring for their autistic son, The A Word.

The six-part drama revisits the lives of the Hughes and Scott families as they struggle to do their best as parents, carers, lovers… and to work out what’s really important in the face of nothing ever feeling normal.

The story picks up two years on from where we left it and Joe, who is played by Max Vento (pictured centre with l-r Christopher Eccleston, Mollie Wright, Morven Christie and Lee Ingleby) is changing. Now age seven, he has begun to look at the world and find he doesn’t fit in.

Writer and creator Peter Bowker explains: “Autistic is a word Joe has heard but can’t yet understand. Different is what he feels, and fears might be something bad. It’s up to the whole family to help Joe make sense of who he is and his place in the world. But to do that, they must first be honest about themselves…”

The A Word screens in Australia on BBC First.

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