How long does one episode take to shoot?
Urban Operas shoots roughly twenty pages a day across a three day schedule, which yields a full series of about sixty five episodes.
That pace only works because the scripts arrive finished. There is no coverage to fix a flat scene later, so the work happens on paper first.
Why sixty seconds?
A minute is long enough to land a turn and short enough that stopping feels like a decision rather than a habit.
Every episode is built around a hook in the opening seconds and a cliffhanger at the close.