A&E Cancels 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' Every dog may have his day but time has run out on "Dog the Bounty Hunter," A&E's long-running reality series about Duane Chapman, better known by the nom de bondsman Dog. Variety reported that A&E had declined to order additional installments of the series, which ran for eight seasons, and that its final episodes would start being shown next month. After Mr. Chapman appeared in a segment on "Take This Job" his series, "Dog the Bounty Hunter," began in 2004, chronicling his family trade - which happens to be bringing in criminals and bail jumpers - in Hawaii and Colorado, and making him an unlikely face of a cable channel better known for staid programming like "Biography." Mr. Chapman also featured in some surprising off-camera adventures and was at times a figure of controversy. In 2006 federal marshals arrested him at his home in Hawaii on charges stemming from his 2003 capture of the Max Factor heir Andrew Luster in Mexico, where bounty hunting is illegal. United States officials later dismissed an attempt to extradite Mr. Chapman. His reality series was pulled by A&E for several months after an audio tape surfaced in which Mr. Chapman was heard using racial epithets, an incident for which he apologized. Still, "Dog the Bounty Hunter" left a mark on cable television, paving the way for the unlikely ensembles of reality shows like A&E's "Duck Dynasty" and History's "Swamp People."