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Tokens (2019)

Tokens poster
Genre
comedy
Country
Canada
Length
2 seasons, 16 episodes
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Actors at a casting agency get sent to TV and film sets just to fill diversity quotas. The show follows their personal and professional lives as they deal with odd gigs.

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What happens

Tokens is a Canadian comedy web series created by Winnifred Jong and produced along with Trinni Franke. The series premiered on Facebook and YouTube on May 6, 2019. It also stayed on Binge Networks for the first season and was later sold to Urbanflix TV. Tokens follows the lives of the actors of an "on call" casting agency who are dispatched to productions in order to fulfill diversity quotas. The series stars Connie Wang, Ryan Allen and Shelley Thompson. As of October 2019, Tokens has amassed more than 500,000 combined views across Facebook and YouTube. Season 2 of Tokens was financed in 2020 but due to the outbreak of Covid, it was not able to go to camera until the fall of 2021. After filming and post were completed, it launched on The Roku Channel in January of 2023. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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