Three new comedy series are among the offerings Halifax-based Salter Street Films announced at its 2000 annual general meeting, held in March. The prodco’s production slate also includes new episodes of some older favorites.

In addition to an eighth season (21 half-hours) of This Hour Has 22 Minutes and a third season of Made in Canada, Salter Street is set to produce 13 half-hour episodes of the adventure comedy series Blackfly for Global Television. The Blackfly pilot was completed in 1999. The company will also produce 13 half-hours of its new news parody series, The Itch, for The Comedy Network.

In coproduction activity, Salter will team up with Vancouver’s Paperny Films for 13 half-hour episodes of the docusoap series The Kink.

Arguably the highest profile project on the Salter slate in 2000 is The Awful Truth with Michael Moore, for which the company is producing 12 new half-hour episodes. The documentary series currently airs on Bravo, The Film and Arts Network in the u.s. and Channel 4 Television in the u.k.

There was no definitive word at press time about production of new episodes of Salter favorites Emily of New Moon, LEXX or children’s series Pirates!, which was Salter’s only new series for 1999. Salter will also be doing without Foodessence, as the final 13 episodes were produced in 1999 for the Life Network, for a total of 65 half-hours in the library. With the 1999 acquisition of the extensive Michael Maclear documentary library, the Salter film library, in total, is home to 859 half-hours of film and television programming as of Oct. 31, 1999 (the end of its fiscal ’99).

In other news from the general meeting, Salter Street elected a board of directors consisting of Michael P. Donovan (Salter’s chairman and ceo), Paul E. Donovan (Salter’s vice chair), James Moir Jr., Ronald E. Smith and J. William Ritchie, all of whom hail from Halifax.