Earthquack! Top 'Duck' Returns To Air- Suspended Star Phil Robertson to Appear in Brand-New Episodes

Phil Robertson of “Duck Dynasty”

Drew Zahn * WND

“Well, we’ve had a quite a quiet week,” said “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson’s oldest son, Alan, on Sunday, “shot some ducks, done some shopping, ignited a national controversy.”

Yet despite the firestorm over his comments on homosexuality and sin in a recent GQ interview and subsequent suspension from his own show by The Arts & Entertainment Network, or A&E, Phil Robertson is still going to be leading the quack pack in the network’s regularly scheduled programming, which resumes Jan. 15.

According to Entertainment Weekly, sources close to the show report nine of the 10 remaining episodes of season four have already been shot, and the network has no plans to cut out the footage featuring the senior Robertson.

The source also reported the network hopes media and fan furor will cool down over the holidays and plans for shooting future episodes can be resolved.

“There’s no negotiation to have; we’re doing the show,” the network insider reportedly told Entertainment Weekly. “We’ll figure out a solution. It’s just not going to happen overnight. Everybody will take a break for the holidays and regroup afterward. That’s probably the smartest thing for everyone to do. Time heals a lot of wounds.”

Robertson, however, has said he has no plans to “cool down” his commitment to speaking out biblically on the topic of sin.

“I will not give or back off from my path,” Robertson told his Bible study group over the weekend.

As WND reported, A&E suspended Robertson after he called homosexuality illogical, while proffering his male viewpoint preferring female anatomy to that of other men.

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