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.

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Hot Sheet: Top 5 Canadian films – Jan. 20 to Jan. 26, 2012

A Dangerous Method remains the top-performing Canadian film at the box office for its second week of release.

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Hot Sheet: Top 10 films – Jan. 20 to Jan. 26, 2012

The latest installment of the Underworld franchise takes the #1 spot at the box office in Canada.

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Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs – Jan. 9 to Jan. 15, 2012

Moneyball hits a homerun for the #1 spot on the DVD sales chart.

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Hot Sheet: Top 30 TV programs – Jan. 16 to Jan. 22, 2012

Hockey Night in Canada takes #2, while Big Bang keeps the top spot.

Plummer snags a SAG award

The veteran Toronto-born actor continues to pile up the accolades for his role as Hal in Beginners.

eOne acquires N.A. rights to Wish You Were Here

The distributor will release the film in the U.S. and Canada, as well as in Australia and NZ through Hopscotch, in 2012.

VVS picks up Canadian rights to Arbitrage

The distributor acquires the Richard Gere starrer following its buzzed-about premiere at Sundance.

Shaw orders up another course of Recipe to Riches

The Food Network Canada reality series has been greenlit for a second season.

Playback Indie Production Survey 2011

Be a part of something big! Click here to take the Independent Production Survey for 2011. PDF version also available.

In the writer’s room with not-so-Lost Girl Michelle Lovretta

The Showcase series’ creator talks to Playback about what makes fantasy-dramedy about a bisexual succubus work with “geeks” and mainstream audiences alike.

Reviewed! A Dangerous Method

Always adept at inciting a range of reactions, David Cronenberg doesn’t disappoint with A Dangerous Method, opening wide in Canada today.

Arctic Air premieres to over a million

The CBC show starring Adam Beach nets almost as many viewers as Mr. D on Monday night.