The countdown is on until summer, when A&E will begin airing new episodes of the hit reality series Dog The Bounty Hunter. The news comes after the network canceled shooting indefinitely last fall, following the release of a phone conversation between the show's star Duane Chapman and his son, in which Chapman unleashed a bounty of racial epithets. In a carefully presented press conference yesterday A&E spokesman Michael Feeney commented on the comeback: "It's not about ratings, we know his heart. We know him and know he's not a racist, " according to The Associated Press.