Dog The Bounter Hunter Returns After Racial Remarks

Celebrity bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman will be returning to cable channel A&E after his reality TV show was pulled from the air three months ago in a controversy over his use of a racial epithet.

Chapman's popular show, Dog the Bounty Hunter was taken off the air last November after a private phone conversation with his son Tucker call leaked to the public. In the conversation Chapman [an ex-con] repeatedly used the word "nigger" to describe Tucker's black girlfriend.

Tucker, apparently upset with the ignorance of his father, sold the tape of the conversation to The National Enquirer, for a reported $15,000.

After the conversation was made public, Chapman apologized repeatedly to the African American community and promised to change his way of thought.

An A&E spokesman said earlier this week "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...Since the premise of Dog The Bounty Hunter is about second chances - we have decided to give him one."

No airdate has been scheduled yet.