BaileyMackey
- Producer
Bailey Mackey's first television job was as a reporter for Māori news programme Te Karere. Later, while Head of Sport for Māori Television, he created long-running sports show Code. Mackey established companies Black Inc Media and Pango Productions, and co-created high profile 2012 reality series The GC. He also sold the format for Pango's hit show Sidewalk Karaoke to global company FremantleMedia.
Screenography
Biography
Bailey Mackey has been a key player on a run of high-profile TV shows, many of them involving Māori: among them sports show Code, The GC, Sidewalk Karaoke and All or Nothing: New Zealand All Blacks. Mackey founded Black Inc Media and when the company was sold to Eyeworks in 2008, he became company director alongside Eyeworks NZ chief Julie Christie. In 2014 he set up Pango Productions, with Jonathon Ulrich.
Awards
2024 New Zealand Television Awards / Ngā Taonga Whakaata O Aotearoa
Nominated for Best Entertainment Programme: Code - The Reunion
2021 New Zealand Television Awards
Winner of Best Format Reality Series: for Match Fit - Series One
Nominated for Best Format Reality Series: for National Treasures - Series One
“He's like a guy with three brains — the one in his head, the one in his heart and the one in his gut — and that's what you need to make it in TV production internationally.”