Salter Street ("Bowling for Columbine" producer) gets shuttered

[Newsjock]

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031216.wsalter1216/BNStory/Business/

Salter Street Films, the small Oscar-winning Halifax-based production company behind This Hour Has 22 Minutes, will be shut down permanently early next year.

Salter's parent company Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. confirmed (Tuesday) the move was made Monday as part of the "widespread review" of its money-losing entertainment division announced last week.

The "less than 10 people" who work at Salter Street, which won an Academy Award in March for co-producing Michael Moore's anti-gun documentary Bowling for Columbine, were notified on Monday, Alliance Atlantis vice-president of corporate and public affairs Kym Robertson said Tuesday.

"The only show that I have information on is This Hour has 22 Minutes, which will continue," she said.

[ajacobson]

1. This sucks.

Salter is where it's at. Awesome creative team. Sounds like revenge of the suits.

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2. 'Tis not the end of the world, is just the beginning.

[schultzee]

3. rePiglicans support money losing hate talk radio, but the good

liberals shut down anything that serves a democratic party interest but loses money.

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4. Salter Street

Also produced Lexx, for those who watched it. Alliance Atlantis is hardly closing down, just this small "wing." They're behind several major U.S. and Canadian shows, including CSI. They've done quite well for themselves as a company that was only started in 1978.