Months after being pulled off the air due to a racial slur, Duane “Dog” Chapman’s TV show is returning.
A&E announced that filming has begun for the fifth season of “Dog the Bounty Hunter.”
Reruns of the show will start June 25, with new episodes, including ones from the fourth season that have not previously aired, coming a few weeks later.
The show features Chapman and crew chasing down bail jumpers in Hawaii and other states. It was pulled from the air in November when Chapman was heard in a taped phone conversation using a racial slur in reference to his son’s girlfriend, who is black.
However, knowing the type of person Chapman is, A&E said he deserved a second chance. Since the slur, Dog has received counseling and reached out to the African American community, such as speaking at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event and participating in a toy drive.
“There was one perfect person, and they called him Jesus Christ,” Chapman said. “You have to…realize that everyone is human, and you can err.”