Several fans of Ewan McGregor have asked if there is any difference between his "Long Way Down" documentary to air Saturday on the Fox Reality Channel and the screening of "Long Way Down" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Edwards Fresno Stadium 22.

There is no difference. The documentary, which I wrote about in today's Bee, is just getting a big screen debut before it hits cable.

If you go to the movie or wait to see it on cable, the documentary features McGregor and his buddy Charley Boorman. They spent months riding their motorcycles from John O'Groats, Scotland, to Cape Town, South Africa. Cameras rolled during the whole trip. And that footage became the documentary.

When I talked with McGregor a few weeks ago in Los Angeles, it had been months since he made the trek. But he was like a child on Christmas morning when he talked about the project. Part of his excitement was because his wife, Eve Mavrakis, had joined him on part of the journey.

"Eve went, 'I want to come, and I want to ride my own bike.' And I said, 'But Eve, you don't ride a bike.' And she said, 'Well, I'm going to learn.' And I was absolutely thrilled about it," McGregor says.

He also had his concerns. The trek took the riders through some rough and dangerous areas. He also knew the roads would be filled with locals. The more traffic, the more chance for an accident.

"The last thing you want to do is hurt somebody to do this kind of pleasure trip. That would be the worst scenario. So I worried about that," McGregor says.

In the end, Mavrakis did learn to ride a bike. She traveled 1,500 miles of the trip through Africa over a seven day period.

McGregor seemed to be as proud of that as he was of making the entire journey himself.