According to
Deadline, the billionaire creator developed a COVID-19 bubble model to film four shows with hundreds of people on hand. The BET+ series
Ruthless and
Bruh, as well as the BET shows
Sistas and
The Oval all filmed 82 episodes in total over more than 60 days.
The entertainment news platform reports cast and crew members experienced 32 shoot days and 51 quarantine days. Upon arriving at the studio, they were subjected to check-in testing and mandated to stay in their rooms until results returned.
Of 360 people, one from
Ruthless tested positive for coronavirus and four did during the
Sistas check-in.
Deadline reports that no outbreaks occurred during production.
Once production began on each show, the talent and executives got to work. Bruh became the final series shot, beginning on Sept. 3 and ending Sept. 6. The comedy was the shortest order and the shortest shoot, according to Deadline, with only 19 episodes.
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