How is this for extra ... short? Following on the heels of M-Net's All Access getting canceled after (story RIGHT HERE) two years on the air I'm told by reliable sources that M-Net is also dumping the brand-new Carte Blanche Extra that will be gone after just 10 episodes.
Carte Blanche Extra on Mondays on the pay broadcaster debuted at the beginning of January this year replacing the weekly Carte Blanche Medical and Carte Blanche Consumer. Both those shows from Combined Artists got the chop and were unceremoniously dumped after just a year on M-Net at the end of last year. Combined Artists also produce the longrunning flagship Sunday Carte Blanche show but that award-winning production is currently in no danger of moving anywhere.
Now I'm told that the local production industry that don't know what to make of this, is starting to get anxious and angry. And nervous. Well informed insiders tell me that ''Carte Blanche Extra will most likely also not be renewed''. Says another source to me exclusively: ''Carte Blanche Extra is only shooting to episode 10. It's sad because our ratings have been good from after the 2nd episode''.
I asked M-Net over the weekend for comment and since then several times this week about the fate and future of Carte Blanche Extra. Similar to All Access M-Net is not saying anything about cancelation. Earlier today, responding about All Access, M-Net said: ''All locally produced content like the Carte Blanche Extra and All Access contracts are for a fixed period of time,'' says M-Net who is now placing an emphasis on local reality shows on the main M-Net channel. ''This does not necessarily mean that All Access and Carte Blanche Extra will fall away from the schedule permanently,'' says M-Net.
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