{"id":31614,"date":"2023-03-22T16:15:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T16:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/03\/22\/new-tv-series-boosts-portrayal-of-black-families\/"},"modified":"2023-03-22T16:15:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T16:15:13","slug":"new-tv-series-boosts-portrayal-of-black-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=31614","title":{"rendered":"New TV series boosts portrayal of black families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A family from London, who self-published a book and cartoon about black representation, have had a TV series commissioned by Sky. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Cynthia and Anthony Deluola, of Ghanaian and Nigerian heritage, impressed 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The family were involved with every aspect of the production, from writing to costumes. &#8220;We wanted to keep it very authentic. We are an aspirational black family, we are trying to break down barriers, break down stereotypes we are so proud of what we have achieved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video by Rob Taylor<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-64992610?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A family from London, who self-published a book and cartoon about black representation, have had a TV series commissioned by Sky. Cynthia and Anthony Deluola, of Ghanaian and Nigerian &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}