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Katie Bailey

Katie Bailey (@katie_bailey) is the editor and content director at Playback, overseeing the Playback brand as well as all content programs for the Banff World Media Festival. She likes dramas, thrillers, offbeat comedies, sci-fi, fantasy, how-to cooking, one renovation show and zero Kardashians.

Posts by Katie Bailey

Canadian Screen Awards ’15: Far-flung docs win night one

Tales from the Organ Trade continues its awards streak alongside Our Man in Tehran, while Secret Location takes home three digital media trophies. (The Unsung: Behind the Glee dance troop pictured.)

February 24, 2015

X Company recruits 800K viewers on CBC

The espionage drama from Temple Street Productions premiered Wednesday Feb. 18 on CBC.

February 19, 2015

Canadian Screen Awards ’15: Feature film categories

February 15, 2015

Two new CW season pickups for Take 5, Whizbang

Playback joins the the prodco’s two returning CW dramas on set at Cinespace Kipling to discuss how how the series came north to shoot.

February 10, 2015

Focus 2015: Syndicado on digi distribution’s moving target

In the final edition of our Focus 2015 series, Syndicado’s Greg Rubidge discusses how his company is meeting the challenges of the rapidly shifting digital distribution landscape.

January 16, 2015

Focus 2015: Jim Mirkopoulos on stickhandling a production boom

Cinespace VP Jim Mirkopoulos on navigating “unprecedented volumes” in Ontario production and how the company is seeking new opportunities for itself and its clients in premium VOD.

January 14, 2015

Photo Gallery: 2015 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards gala

Established and emerging Canadian talent gathered to celebrate the Toronto film critics’ picks for the best performances and pictures of the year.

January 14, 2015

The Book of Negroes debuts to 1.7M viewers

The premiere is the highest-rated for a CBC program since Little Mosque on the Prairie in 2007.

January 8, 2015

Canadian scribes get Black Listed

Seth W. Owen and Chris MacBride make the coveted L.A.-based list of the best unproduced scripts.

December 15, 2014

Could Canada lure Dean Deblois back?

The How to Train Your Dragon 2 writer and director on career momentum, indie animation and why he’d “love to come and make a movie here [in Canada] sometime.”

December 12, 2014

Scripted show of the Year: Vikings

From Playback magazine: How Vikings topped the specialty entertainment ratings and pillaged its way into TV’s overall Top 30 ratings.

December 10, 2014

Gallery: WIFT-T Crystal Awards 2014

This year’s honorees were presented with their awards at a gala luncheon held in Toronto on Dec. 2.

December 10, 2014