BREAKING. Carte Blanche on M-Net starts teasing its brand-new transparent glass on-air look to be revealed on 1 September at 19:00.

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Carte Blanche and M-Net has started teasing on-air the brand-new transparent glass on-screen look in gray scale of the pay-TV broadcaster's weekly investigative magazine show's which will be revealed on Sunday 1 September at 19:00 to celebrate it's 25th anniversary.

The longrunning weekly magazine show from Combined Artistic Productions and consistently for years dominating in the viewership race on M-Net by perennially remaining the number one most watched show on the pay-TV broadcaster, will reveal a brand new look - one of transparent glass - on 1 September during a special episode which will also celebrate the show's 25th anniversary.

Tied to Carte Blanche's 25th birthday, the special content of the 1 September episode and the 1 September brand-new on-screen look, is the special book Carte Blanche 25 Years - The Stories Behind the Stories which will go on sale from the end of August.

Carte Blanche, a live broadcast, has been temporarily originating from SuperSport's studios inside Studio 6 at M-Net's Randburg headquarters the past few months as part of the preparation for the new-look, on-screen reveal on 1 September.

Now M-Net and Carte Blanche are counting down the 14 days to the new transparent look - symbolically tying in with the show's ingrained slogan of "The right to see it all".

Carte Blanche, executive produced by George Mazarakis, has had several hits and misses over the years in terms of its on-air look, and within 14 days the Sunday evening show inhabiting the iconic 19:00 timeslot for decades on South African television will again be refreshing its image.

It's most striking, successful, beloved and most dynamic on-air look was Carte Blanche's brilliant "pink phase" when - coupled with a pink logo, then co-presenters Derek Watts and Ruda Landman would walk onto a black set with a raised, tiered pink stage in the middle - odd yet absolutely effective in communicating the positioning of a Sunday evening current affairs TV programme broadcast live.

They would sit down after the break, after first doing a strong upcoming episode teaser - subtly warning non-M-Net subscribers that they going to lose out, and about revealing stories which will be scrambled if the parental control setting isn't adjusted.

The Carte Blanche transparent glass on-air refresh comes after its been making use of the "laser beam" imaging the past couple of years and as e.tv and eNCA (DStv 403) is preparing its own new weekly investigative magazine show to start before the end of 2013.