Lenny Rush also played Tiny Tim for two seasons at the Old Vic theatre. He was born with a rare form of dwarfism called Spondyloepiphyseal Dysplasia Congenita (SED).
Rutger Hauer, who was supposed to play The Ghost of Christmas Future (The Grim Reaper), died the year this was made.
Although it's a 3 episode mini series, FX considers and addresses it as a movie.
Normally, the Ghost of Christmas Past is played by a woman, and the Ghost of Christmas Present is played by a man. In this adaptation, it is reversed.
This is the first major adaptation of Dickens' story since the Robert Zemeckis big screen treatment with A Christmas Carol (2009) in 2009.