Former Dr Who star Christopher Eccleston is back in Cumbria to film the second series of BBC drama The A Word.

Filming for the show is taking place around Keswick, Threlkeld, Honister Pass, Coniston and Broughton-in-Furness, as well as in Manchester.

The cast are staying in the Lake District during their time on location here and are expected to be in the area until July.

The six-part drama, which focuses on Joe, who has autism, is due to go out in autumn.

The story picks up two years on from the first series and Joe is changing. Now age seven, he has begun to look at the world and find he doesn’t fit in.

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

Writer and creator Peter Bowker said: "I am delighted that the show has resonated with a wide audience and am thrilled to have the opportunity to take the family and Joe further along their journey.

"If the first series was about diagnosis and denial then the second series is about the journey that is undertaken when you ‘go public’ about the fact that your child is different.

"This series is both about being the family with a child that is different in a small community, as well as being a part of the wider ‘autism community’ and all that this entails.”