A FIRST: Shola Amoo FILMING HAS begun in Birmingham on BBC One’s adaptation of Kit de Waal’s lauded debut novel My Name is Leon, produced by Douglas Road Productions. It’s rare, in my experience, for projects such as this to be made and even more rare to be seen Malachi Kirby Shola Amoo’s first screenplay for television, it stars Malachi Kirby, Monica Dolan, Olivia Williams, Christopher Eccleston,Poppy Lee Friar and Sir Lenny Henry CBE Cole Martin will play the lead, Leon, in his first TV role. Lynette Linton, Artistic Director of world-famous home for new plays and playwrights, the Bush Theatre, will direct, her directorial debut on a television drama.