CATCH AND KILL:THE PODCAST TAPES - RANDY BARBATO and FENTON BAILEY INTERVIEW

Ronan Farrow Talks with Ken Auletta, Courtesy HBO

Ronan Farrow’s Award winning podcast is now coming to the small screen.

HBO’s CATCH AND KILL: THE PODCAST TAPES, a six-part, half-hour documentary series directed brings to life Ronan Farrow’s intimate, revealing interviews with whistleblowers, journalists, private investigators and other sources, conducted for the Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist’s podcast and bestselling book “Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and A Conspiracy to Protect Predators.”

The series expands on the podcast and the book, with never-before-seen footage and new insights into this culture-shaking story, enhanced by Bailey and Barbato’s creative weaving of additional sound and imagery from documents, audio tapes, photos, archive footage and striking illustrations. With fresh perspectives and detail — not just on the harrowing effort to expose one powerful predator, but on the systems that help cover up terrible crimes to this day — there are revelations in this series that may surprise even those familiar with the reporting.

The documentary, like the book and the podcast, explores how Farrow landed the story, and the difficulty he had getting it in front of an audience. This is explosive stuff — Harvey Weinstein’s abusive behavior toward women was an open secret in Hollywood for years. But he wielded such power it was nearly impossible to pin the story down.

Award winning Producers and Directors, randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey

Episodes

July 12th - the Wire. July 12, 2021"The Reporters"
July 19, 2021TBD3"The Assistants" July 19, 2021TBD4"The Producer" July 26, 2021"The Editors"
July 26, 2021"The Spy"

The docu series will air on HBO and HBO MAX in the U.S. and on Crave TV in Canada.

I spoke with directors Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey about the docu series, what else they have coming up and the success of Rupaul’s Drag Race.