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LAST EDITED ON Feb-21-08 AT 07:34AM (MST)[p]WHOO HOO!! A&E is bringing back DOG! YEEE HAAAA!! OH and BETH too! This is about one of the best shows around. Nothing like watching a Dee Snyder mullet wearing ex-con-born-again-biker and his bleach blonde hot headed "I like my women just a little on the trashy side" song poster girl wife chase down Hawaiian meth heads with mace! It don't get any better than that!
Here's the story:
Bounty Hunter "Dog" to return to the air
Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:01am EST
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Celebrity bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman is set to return to television after his reality TV show was pulled from the air three months ago in a controversy over his use of a racial slur, cable channel A&E said on Tuesday.
A&E took the popular show, "Dog the Bounty Hunter," off its schedule last November after a private phone call in which Chapman, an ex-con, used an offensive term to describe his son Tucker's black girlfriend hit the Internet.
It transpired that Tucker sold the tape of the conversation to The National Enquirer, for a reported $15,000.
A teary Chapman apologized repeatedly on television and to the African American community after the tape was made public and promised to make amends.
He acknowledged using the epithet "nigger" on a heated call with his son but admitting he was probably interfering in his son's life and he still loved his son.
An A&E spokesman said the network had decided to start production again of "Dog The Bounty Hunter" but no airdate has yet been scheduled.
"Over the last few months, Duane "Dog" Chapman has taken and continues to take the appropriate steps in reaching out to several African American organizations in an effort to make amends for his private comments to his son which were released publicly," said a statement from the network.
"Since the premise of "Dog The Bounty Hunter" is about second chances - we have decided to give him one."
Honolulu-based Chapman, 55, who has 12 children and has been married five times, rose to fame after his 2003 tracking and capture of Max Factor heir and serial rapist Andrew Luster in Mexico.
This led to an offer for a reality TV show which follows Chapman with his trademark scraggly long blond hair and leather wardrobe, his wife Beth, and his "posse" tracking down people who jump bail.
The show is broadcast in more than 10 countries.
(Writing by Belinda Goldsmith, Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
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UTROY
Proverbs 21:19 (why I hunt!)
Here's the story:
Bounty Hunter "Dog" to return to the air
Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:01am EST
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Celebrity bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman is set to return to television after his reality TV show was pulled from the air three months ago in a controversy over his use of a racial slur, cable channel A&E said on Tuesday.
A&E took the popular show, "Dog the Bounty Hunter," off its schedule last November after a private phone call in which Chapman, an ex-con, used an offensive term to describe his son Tucker's black girlfriend hit the Internet.
It transpired that Tucker sold the tape of the conversation to The National Enquirer, for a reported $15,000.
A teary Chapman apologized repeatedly on television and to the African American community after the tape was made public and promised to make amends.
He acknowledged using the epithet "nigger" on a heated call with his son but admitting he was probably interfering in his son's life and he still loved his son.
An A&E spokesman said the network had decided to start production again of "Dog The Bounty Hunter" but no airdate has yet been scheduled.
"Over the last few months, Duane "Dog" Chapman has taken and continues to take the appropriate steps in reaching out to several African American organizations in an effort to make amends for his private comments to his son which were released publicly," said a statement from the network.
"Since the premise of "Dog The Bounty Hunter" is about second chances - we have decided to give him one."
Honolulu-based Chapman, 55, who has 12 children and has been married five times, rose to fame after his 2003 tracking and capture of Max Factor heir and serial rapist Andrew Luster in Mexico.
This led to an offer for a reality TV show which follows Chapman with his trademark scraggly long blond hair and leather wardrobe, his wife Beth, and his "posse" tracking down people who jump bail.
The show is broadcast in more than 10 countries.
(Writing by Belinda Goldsmith, Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
? Reuters 2007. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world.
Reuters journalists are subject to the Reuters Editorial Handbook which requires fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests.
UTROY
Proverbs 21:19 (why I hunt!)
