✖

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

Production begins on Transporter – The Series

Principal photography on the second season of high-speed thriller has commenced in Toronto.

June 27, 2014

Andra Sheffer resigns from Bell Fund

The longtime Bell Fund executive director is ending her 17-year career with the organization but will remain as CEO of the Independent Production Fund (IPF) and Cogeco Fund.

June 26, 2014
News

Last call for Playback’s 5 to Watch nominations

Nominations close June 24 at 5 p.m.. If you have a rising star to nominate, this is your last chance.

June 23, 2014

Tatiana Maslany two-peats at Critics Choice Awards

The star of Orphan Black takes home the best actress in a drama award from the U.S. critics for the second time in as many years.

June 20, 2014

CFC opens new Northern Dancer Pavilion

The new rehearsal, studio and event space marks the final phase of the centre’s $12 million Windfields Campus Improvement Project.

June 18, 2014

Banff 2014: Top 10 takeaways

From the 2014 Banff World Media Festival, 10 key trends shaping the TV business right now.

June 16, 2014

Banff 2014: When comedy and crime collide

Community‘s Dan Harmon charms the room with a master class on comedy and a riveting interview with True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto.

June 12, 2014

City greenlights McCulloch’s Young Drunk Punk

The new single-camera comedy from Kids in the Hall‘s Bruce McCulloch is set for production in summer 2014. (Kids in the Hall in Dave Foley-starrer Spun Out pictured.)

June 11, 2014

Bell Media, BBC America order Iron Belly to script

Director Jonathan Sobol and Darius Films’ Nicholas Tabarrok discuss their move into cable drama with Iron Belly, a new project coproduced with L.A.’s Electus. (Sobol pictured)

June 9, 2014

Sally Catto named GM, programming at CBC

The scripted boss takes over the GM position, overseeing the pubcaster’s overall programming portfolio.

June 9, 2014

2014 Upfronts: Heading north isn’t a ‘strain’ for FX

FX original programming president Eric Schrier and director Guillermo del Toro (pictured) discuss what keeps them coming back to shoot in Canada.

June 5, 2014

White Pine hires new head of factual development

The Toronto-based producer has hired Andrew Munger (pictured) to helm its factual division, and hired two new execs on the business side.

June 5, 2014