Ama’s Story based on Deluola family, who impressed producers with their self-published books and cartoon
A black British family has been commissioned to create a children’s television show about a black British family for the Sky Kids channel, despite having no previous experience or training in TV production.
Cynthia and Anthony Deluola, of Ghanaian and Nigerian heritage, live in London and work in child safeguarding and as an airline pilot respectively. To their astonishment, they impressed Sky’s producers with books they had self-published and an animated cartoon that they had made in their spare time because their daughter Elise had been unable to find characters like herself in print or on screen when she was aged five.
