After MultiChoice and M-Net lied and said it won't show the second of racist Mike Bolhuis but then did, kykNET now says the trash-tabloid series won't see further episodes or repeats on DStv.

by Thinus Ferreira

MultiChoice and M-Net's kykNET (DStv 144) channel is finally finished after two seasons with the racist Mike Bolhuis whose trash-tabloid series Bolhuis won't see further episodes nor any rebroadcasts on DStv.

Tim du Plessis, kykNET's head of actuality, in a message told a viewer in Afrikaans that "With the authority of kykNET's top management I can inform you that the final episode of a rebroadcast of Bolhuis will be shown on 29 June".

"There will be no further repeats or rebroadcasts and no new seasons of Bolhuis will be produced."

Last year MultiChoice and M-Net in a shocking decision, decided to go ahead and started to broadcast the second season of Bolhuis with Mike Bolhuis, produced by Rian van Heerden.

That was after MultiChoice initially scrapped the second season just before it was supposed to air following a flurry of racist slurs and derogatory remarks made by Mike Bolhuis in audio recordings - including using the "k"-word - that surfaced in mid-2019 from the private investigator and kykNET reality star.

MultiChoice and kykNET lied and said that "MultiChoice is committed to the building of a non-racial society and strongly condemns any acts of discrimination. In the circumstances, we resolved that programming in the second season of the Bolhuis series, in which Mike Bolhuis is the central figure would not be broadcast."

A short while later, MultiChoice and kykNET then shockingly went ahead anyway with the broadcast of the low-class tabloid series marked by low production values. 

About the abrupt turn-around of allowing a racist back on kykNET, after MultiChoice said it won't show it, Karen Meiring, director of M-Net's kykNET channels, told TVwithThinus in September 2020 that Mike Bolhuis "has taken steps in his personal life to not only reflect but use his platform to support and promote diversity and inclusion". 

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