Longtime TV producer Jessica Pitchford now managing editor for investigative magazine show Checkpoint on eNCA and e.tv.

Veteran South Africa TV producer Jessica Pitchford has joined the weekly investigate magazine show, Checkpoint, on eNCA (DStv 403) and e.tv.

Jessica Pitchford is now the managing editor of Checkpoint where Nkepile Mabuse is the executive producer and host.

Jessica Pitchford is most recognised for her work at, and most closely associated with, M-Net's Carte Blanche where she was most recently the managing editor as well for the past half a decade.

The award-winning TV and longtime producer was however for years a TV reporter for SABC News for news and current affairs and worked for SABC3's Special Assignment and others actuality shows.

Last year with Carte Blanche's 25th anniversary on M-Net, Jessica Pitchford authored the commemorative book Carte Blanche: The Stories Behind the Stories.

Carte Blanche commemorative book is the number one bestseller in the non-fiction category in South Africa.

Carte Blanche 25 Years - The Stories Behind the Stories from Jessica Pitchford with anecdotes from the long running weekly news magazine show on M-Net remains in the number one bestseller spot in the non-fiction book category in South Africa.

Carte Blanche 25 Years - The Stories Behind the Stories went on sale in South Africa from the beginning of September (read the TV with Thinus book review right here) and is number one in the non-fiction category.

Author Jessica Pitchford and Carte Blanche anchor Derek Watts will be in Port Elizabeth on Friday 25 October at Fogarthy's Bookshop at 18:00 at the GFI Gallery for the next stop of the Carte Blanche book launch roadshow.

Carte Blanche 25 Years - The Stories Behind the Stories commemorative book coming with Carte Blanche birthday episode on 1 September.

Kalahari.net is now taking pre-orders for the upcoming book Carte Blanche 25 Years - The Stories Behind the Stories, the special commemorative book which TV with Thinus first reported in February is coming later this year to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the longrunning local weekly investigative magazine show on M-Net.

M-Net's Carte Blanche will be celebrating it's silver anniversary in August and TV with Thinus can be first to reveal that the longrunning Combined Artistic Productions show will have a special birthday episode for viewers on Sunday 1 September.

Carte Blanche 25 Years - The Stories Behind the Stories is a trade paperback (and a definite collector's item!) from Jonathan Ball Publishers and will be published to co-incide with the special birthday of Carte Blanche on 1 September.

The excellent Jessica Pitchford is the author of Carte Blanche 25 Years - The Stories Behind the Stories and readers can get ready for a very revealing and exceptionally insightful behind-the-scenes look through stories filled with perspective about the show.

The book reveals untold and little known facts and background about Carte Blanche and its existence the past two and a half decades through the eyes of the producers and presenters who have shaped and guided the show since it started in 1998 on M-Net.

Carte Blanche remains the pay-TV broadcaster's highest rated and most watched programme in its now iconic Sunday evening berth of 19:00 on M-Net which has since become not just live appointment television, but also the most valuable real estate in all of South African television broadcasting.