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Victoria Ahearn

Victoria Ahearn is Editor of Playback. A veteran multimedia arts journalist, she was formerly chief film and TV writer at The Canadian Press and reporter-editor in various departments at the national wire service, landing bylines in the Globe & Mail, Toronto Star and many major publications across the country. She's a Humber Radio Hall of Fame inductee, been a copywriter for Corus Entertainment and written for community paper Danforth CentreTown News. At Playback, she oversees content for the publication's daily newsletter.

Posts by Victoria Ahearn

Anand Ramayya among winners at 16th annual Indiescreen Awards

The producing trio of Kate Kroll, Rylan Friday and Trevor Mack also took an honour at the virtual awards event closing out CMPA’s Prime Time.

February 14, 2022

Canadian composer launches software to track TV airings

Shawn Pierce says the subscription-based WIOpro will empower talent to track residuals and royalties.

February 14, 2022

Film world mourns loss of Canadian comedy director-producer Ivan Reitman

Producer Judd Apatow and TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey are among those sharing tributes to the Toronto-raised Ghosbusters filmmaker.

February 14, 2022

Amazon Studios taps Samantha De France as production executive, unscripted Canada

The former Our House Media COO will help the unscripted production team in Canada manage the production and delivery of various projects.

February 11, 2022

Bay Mills Studios announces key development and production hires

Holly Hubsher and Tse Daniel will help the studio – founded by Shamier Anderson and Stephan James – tell unique, underrepresented stories.

February 11, 2022

Fabienne Colas Foundation launches Festwave Institute

The national institute offers training and skill building for underserved Black entrepreneurs in the film and television industry.

February 10, 2022

WIFTV launches free producers program for underrepresented communities

The WIFTV Emerging TV Producers Program aims to assist up to 10 women and gender-diverse TV producers.

February 10, 2022

Apple TV+ orders comedy series executive produced by Boat Rocker

Mrs. American Pie stars Kristen Wiig in a story based on a novel by Juliet McDaniel.

February 9, 2022

Great Pacific Media developing series with Paul Sun-Hyung Lee

The Kim’s Convenience star will explore superfans of major franchises as host of Fandemonium.

February 9, 2022

WildBrain Q2 revenue rises 8% to $153.2 million

A pipeline of premium productions including Sonic Prime and new Peanuts content helped spur the revenue rise in Q2.

February 9, 2022

Blue Ant Media launches TotalCrime FAST channel

The catalogue of true crime factual series and documentaries is available on The Roku Channel in the U.S.

February 8, 2022

Black Screen Office report finds shortfalls in screen representation

The “Being Seen” report explored core themes including missing complexity of storylines and characters, and lack of understanding of the complexity of communities.

February 8, 2022