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Please note that the Carte Blanche team is taking a well-deserved break for the month of December.<\/p>\nPlease note that the Carte Blanche team is taking a well-deserved break for the month of December.<\/p>\n
As in previous years, M-Net will be broadcasting some of the best Carte Blanche inserts from the past 11 months during this period. Below, please see the Carte Blanche line-ups for Sunday, 17 December, Sunday, 24 December and Sunday 31 December respectively.<\/p>\n
17 December 2017 at 19:00 & again on M-Net Plus 1 [901] at 20:00<\/strong><\/p>\n Bush racing has become a popular underground pastime in which retired race horses are literally raced to their death. It\u2019s a brutal sport run by gangs across the Western Cape for gambling purposes. Carte Blanche asks: why has law enforcement failed to put an end to this cruel sport?<\/p>\n Producer: Annalise Lubbe It\u2019s the trip of a lifetime\u2026 a one way ticket to Mars, and three South Africans have been shortlisted to join the colony.\u00a0 Mars One is one of the space missions aiming to establish a permanent human settlement on the Red Planet. Several unmanned missions will be completed, establishing a habitable settlement before carefully selected and trained crews finally depart for Mars. Carte Blanche explores this extraordinary mission.<\/p>\n Producer: Diana Lucas Almost six years ago a routine early morning drive to the gym changed the life of Kim McCusker in an instant. After a minor bumper bashing, the taxi driver responsible, refused to give his details to her fianc\u00e9. Hoping to assist, Kim approached the taxi, but she never got to his window, because he accelerated, knocked her over, and seconds later she was dragged for 780 metres under the vehicle. Carte Blanche tells the remarkable story of her recovery, her will to live, and her family\u2019s love and support that made it all possible.<\/p>\n Producer: Joy Summers The sporting rivalry between South Africa, New Zealand and Australia is legendary but there\u2019s one sport in which South Africa is the undisputed World Champion \u2013 blade sheep shearing.\u00a0 Recently 400 competitors from 31 nations battled it out in the International Sheep Shearing Championships and once again, South Africa came out tops.\u00a0 It\u2019s a physically demanding sport but for titleholder Mayenzeke Shweni, sheep shearing is more than just a game.\u00a0 Carte Blanche meets a winner, who\u2019s a cut above the rest.<\/p>\n Producer: Carol Albertyn Christie 24 December 2017 at 19:00 & again on M-Net Plus 1 [901] at 20:00<\/strong><\/p>\n In recent years, the rate of child adoptions in South Africa has declined substantially. Now the Department of Social Development in KZN is accused of deliberately slowing down the adoption process in the province, leaving hundreds of children stuck in places of safety without the hope of finding loving families.\u00a0Carte Blanche explores a system in crisis.<\/p>\n Producer: Sophia Phirippides How do you mend a broken heart? New medical research on the zebra-fish could hold the answer. This tiny little freshwater fish has an amazing ability to regenerate its own heart, spinal cord and other tissue and this could offer hope of recovery to millions of people living with permanent heart damage after a heart attack. Carte Blanche explores this medical discovery.<\/p>\n Producer: Eugene Botha It\u2019s an easy con \u2013 pull in the deals, get subcontractors to do all the work, pocket the big bucks and disappear without paying.\u00a0 That\u2019s how one middleman in the transport industry almost got away with stealing millions from transporters. Carte Blanche tracks down this elusive scamster.<\/p>\n Producer: Nicky Troll At 86, Deirdre Larkin has proven that age is just a number.\u00a0 She holds the half-marathon world record for women over eighty-five, and she\u2019s also broken the South African 10km record for women over 70. After seeing her story on Carte Blanche, sponsors rushed to help Deidre run her first race in Europe. \u00a0Now, she\u2019s collected another title at the Geneva Half Marathon. Carte Blanche heads to Switzerland with this remarkable athlete.<\/p>\n Producer: Kate Barry <\/p>\n 31 December 2017 at 19:00 & again on M-Net Plus 1 [901] at 20:00<\/strong><\/p>\n In 2014, Trevor Noah was just a well-known stand-up comedian with a recurring role as a contributor on one of the biggest talk shows in the USA.\u00a0 Now at 33 years old,\u00a0Noah is taking on the Big Apple in a big way. \u00a0His path from apartheid South Africa to the anchor chair of The Daily Show is the stuff of dreams. With a best-selling book already in the bag, sold-out shows around the world and multiple international awards, Carte Blanche takes you behind the scenes into the New York life of South Africa\u2019s favourite export.<\/p>\n Producer: Diana Lucas Please note that the Carte Blanche team is taking a well-deserved break for the month of December. As in previous years, M-Net will be broadcasting some of the best Carte Blanche inserts from the past 11 months during this period. Below, please see the Carte Blanche line-ups for Sunday, 17 December, Sunday, 24 December and… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 17, 24, 31 December 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65,21,126],"class_list":["post-5784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-carte-blanche","tag-mnet","tag-mnet-plus","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Bush Racing<\/h3>\n
\nPresenter: John Webb<\/p>\nMars One<\/h3>\n
\nPresenter: John Webb<\/p>\nScarred, But Not For Life<\/h3>\n
\nPresenter: Derek Watts<\/p>\nA cut above \u2013 SA\u2019s sheep shearing champion<\/h3>\n
\nPresenter: Claire Mawisa
\nWatch the trailer<\/p>\nDeclining Adoption Numbers<\/h3>\n
\nPresenter: Claire Mawisa<\/p>\nTissue Regeneration<\/h3>\n
\nPresenter: Derek Watts<\/p>\nTransport Crook<\/h3>\n
\nPresenter: Devi Sankaree Govender<\/p>\nGranny runs Geneva<\/h3>\n
\nPresenter: Derek Watts
\nWatch the trailer.<\/p>\nTrevor Noah: A Carte Blanche Special<\/h3>\n
\nPresenter: Devi Sankaree Govender
\nWatch the trailer.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"