• Multichannel News, Monday, November 5, 2007 12:02 PM

Just days after a tape surfaced of Duane "Dog" Chapman repeatedly using racist language, cable net A&E is yanking all episodes of his "Dog The Bounty Hunter" show. "In evaluating the circumstances of the last few days, A&E has decided to take 'Dog The Bounty Hunter' off the network's schedule for the foreseeable future," the network says. "We hope that Mr. Chapman continues the healing process that he has begun."

The channel first suspended Chapman after the National Enquirer posted an audio clip of Chapman using the "n-word" several times in a phone conversation with his son Tucker. Chapman is unhappy that Tucker is dating an African-American, and warns she could jeopardize the show if she hears him using the word. "I don't care if she's a Mexican, a whore, whatever," he says on the tape. "It's not because she's black. It's because we use the word n---sometimes here. I'm not going to take a chance ever in life of losing everything I've worked for 30 years because some fu-ing n---- heard us saying n-----."

Tucker taped the phone call with his father and then sold it to the Enquirer, and his attorney tells the Associated Press that "I guess because of whatever level of anger he had of his father, he felt the need to express it in that manner."

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