I broke the news RIGHT HERE last month that M-Net's premiere investigative magazine show Carte Blanche is planning on turning the directing of its 22 birthday over to viewers, and now I can tell you exactly what the stories will be that viewers get to choose from and what gets said on air this Sunday at 19:00 in the Carte Blanche 22: It's all about you campaign.
Carte Blanche also promises a ''mystery gift'' in Sunday night's special anniversary broadcast.
The venerable weekly M-Net investigative show has decided to turn to social networking to celebrate its 22nd anniversary that is happening this Sunday on te pay broadcaster with fans that's asked to sign up on Facebook HERE or Twitter HERE for the opportunity to influence the content of Carte Blanche.
''Viewers will be able to choose four of eight stories,'' Carte Blanche says. The story that viewers like the most, will go out first on Sunday. In a novel approach, Carte Blanche is giving viewers also direct influence in the writing the studio script by using the same social media interactive tools. Viewers will basically be ''telling Derek what so say'' since Carte Blanche anchor Derek Watts will have his normal intro and outro script available HERE. Viewers however can make any suggestions as to what Derek should say before and after each story.
For the eight different story options that viewers can choose out of for this Sunday's Carte Blanche, click on READ MORE below.
Who would want to go to prison – in a country where jails are over-flowing and rehabilitation is minimal? Particularly if the crime you’ve committed isn’t as serious as rape, murder or armed robbery. There are alternatives to being under lock and key for years and, as Carte Blanche found out, they present greater possibilities to modify behaviour and help offenders positively reintegrate into society.
Presenter: Annika Larsen
Producer: Shoot the Breeze
Mercury Rising
Coal combustion from power stations is by far the biggest single contributor to mercury contamination in the atmosphere. When it makes its way up the food chain, alarm bells start ringing. Scientists reckon the highest concentrations of methyl mercury are in our sea fish and the effects on the body can be particularly nasty. Carte Blanche goes fishing.
Presenter: Annika Larsen
Producer: Bart Smithers
Portfolio Life
Changing economies and mindsets have made the 21st century the era of the portfolio lifestyle. How we work, from where we work and multiple job satisfaction is the new order. Carte Blanche looks at career people with more than a few irons in the fire.
Presenter: Derek Watts
Producer: Ashleigh Hamilton
Cannabis & Schizophrenia
Does the use of dagga lead to schizophrenia, or is it the other way round? One in a hundred South Africans suffer from this mental disorder, and, in some cases, it’s cannabis induced. Find out what the experts say about the not-so-innocent smoking of a joint or two, or three...
Presenter: Bongani Bingwa
Producer: Thando Sibanda
Mandela Photographers
Until 1990, no-one had much of an idea of what Nelson Mandela looked like. But once he stepped out of Victor Verster Prison, he became one of the most photographed men of all time. Everyone wanted a picture next to the liberation icon and every event, no matter how small, was a photo opportunity. But there is a small band of photographers who captured some very special moments.
Producer: Carol Albertyn Christie
Native Nostalgia
Journalist Jacob Dlamini is one of a number of black intellectuals questioning what he calls “the comforting fiction of our history”. In his first book, he tells us what it means for black South Africans to remember with curious fondness their lives under apartheid. Carte Blanche gets nostalgic with a native.
Guest Presenter: Jenny Crwys-Williams
Producer: Diana Lucas
Dubai Desert
Dubai is famous for its skyscrapers. Now it’s also being lauded for its conservation efforts in the desert. And it’s all thanks to a sheik with a vision and a bunch of South Africans undeterred by 50 degree heat and blinding sandstorms. Carte Blanche visits a new oasis.
Presenter: Bongani Bingwa
Producer: Nguni Productions
Forensics
Over the years, Carte Blanche has covered numerous stories on crimes that remain unsolved because of hitches in processing forensic evidence. Now the Department of Health is adding to the problem, with huge backlogs in obtaining toxicology reports that determine the cause of death. Carte Blanche speaks to bereaved families still seeking answers, years after burying their loved ones.
Presenter: Annika Larsen
Producer: Peter Groenewald
Carte Blanche, 22nd anniversary episode on M-Net, Sunday, September 12 at 19:00
