Dog Chapman back on the hunt

February 20th, 2008

A&E announced Tuesday that they will resume production of their #1 reality show Dog the Bounty Hunter. The show was pulled from A&E’s schedule indefinitely on October 31st after Chapman’s son Tucker taped a phone conversation 8 months prior in which the bounty hunter used racial slurs in reference to his son’s girlfriend. For as many people that were outraged by this there seemed to be as many supporters who pleaded with A&E to bring the show back. Many message boards of Dog supporters have said that while it was wrong that he used that term and it was ignorant, the good Dog does for the state by capturing fugitives and making the streets safer played a major role in their support of bringing the show back. No return date has been announced as of yet.

Controversy has swirled around the cast such as hinting the marriage of Dog and Beth was more than strained at the height of his “apology media tour.” In January, Tim “Youngblood” Chapman was arrested for indecent exposure and terroristic threatening when he was approached by a security guard who was following up on a report that there was a man fondling himself in the Ala Moana Shopping Center parking garage. When the guard approached Chapman, who claimed he was changing his pants after having spilled juice on them, fled the parking garage in his vehicle. The security guard alleges he was trying to hit him. He is currently out on bail and separated from the mother of his two girls, Davina.