Tyler Perry was honored withinternational television market MIPCOM's World Screen Trendsetter Award on Monday, where the director, producer and actor spoke about resuming production amid COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Perry's 330-acre Atlanta studios— built on Fort McPherson, a Confederate army base where "there's still streets that are named after Confederate generals and soldiers that are being taken down, as I've erected monuments to Black people like Denzel Washington and Oprah Winfrey and Cicely Tyson and Whoopi Goldberg and their names are on sound stages on the same land"— have housed the casts and crews of four different shows and seen the completion of 82 episodes ready for 2021.
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