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Like any other long-running show, Fox's "Bones" has its share of things that don't make sense, as well as episodes everyone should watch at least once. And like any other long-running show, it also took a while to find its feet and become the best possible version of itself. Part of this involved setting up the perfect core cast around clear main characters Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz). While many components were in place early, some people -- including me -- might argue that the show only truly came to its own when Tamara Taylor's Cam Saroyan and John Francis Daley's Lance Sweets found their places among the main cast. 

Another thing, of course, was knowing which characters to keep in the roster. Case in point: the aforementioned Cam. During a 2012 panel discussion with the show's stars (via IGN), "Bones" creator Hart Hanson...

By all accounts, David Boreanaz had a ball on "Bones." The actor played FBI special agent Seeley Booth opposite Emily Deschanel's Temperance "Bones" Brennan for all 12 seasons of the hit Fox procedural, and seemed to enjoy himself throughout. In fact both Boreanaz and Deschanel have spoken very positively about their time on the show, to the extent that it's only fueled anticipation for the long-awaited "Bones" revival.

But that doesn't mean there weren't some tough moments. When your show is on the air for 12 years, there's bound to be some low points, like when a sexual harassament lawsuit was filed against Boreanaz. What's more, as positive as the Seeley Booth actor has sounded in the years since "Bones" went off the air in 2017, he also hasn't been shy about sharing his opinions of when the series didn't quite hit the mark. Some of the gripes voiced by Boreanaz have been minor,...

Over the course of eight seasons, the Fox procedural Bones cemented itself as a highly bingeable show with a satisfying ending. The series starred Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz as Dr. Temperance Brennan and Special Agent Seely Booth. Recently, Deschanel looked back on her somewhat grueling experience on the inaugural season of the crime drama. She recently was a guest on David Duchovny’s Fail Better podcast. She says that she felt “overwhelmed” due to the schedule. She explains:

“We were working insane hours, longer than just a normal series. You’re working 14- to 16-hour days, and then I had to memorize the lines. So I’d be staying up late night memorizing lines. I would joke that I would go home and just cry in a bathtub every night because I was just so overwhelmed.”

‘Bones’ Changed Over the Course of 8 Seasons, Sometimes Because of the Actors

Between character deaths,...

Emily Deschanel’s run on “Bones” almost ended in Season 1 instead of Season 12.

In a recent interview on David Duchovny’s “Fail Better” podcast, Deschanel recalled struggling to keep up during the first season of “Bones,” considering the demanding shooting hours and the copious amounts of dialogue she needed to memorize.

“We were working insane hours, longer than just a normal series,” Deschanel said. “You’re working 14- to 16-hour days, and then I had to memorize the lines. So I’d be staying up late night memorizing lines. I would joke that I would go home and just cry in a bathtub every night because I was just so overwhelmed.”

She added, “I’d come to set and I would be trying to remember the lines that…I got no sleep and trying to remember the lines that I had memorized the night before and then I had them...

The popular crime drama Bones ran for so long that the first season may seem like a distant memory, but its lead star remembers it clearly because it was such a difficult time in her career. Bones follows Dr. Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel), who is paired up to work with FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz).

The two are tasked with cases where the skills of a forensic anthropologist are needed, as the remains of the victims are often only bones, hence Booth nicknames Brennan "Bones." The two main Bones characters' dynamic became beloved; they are also the stars of an extended will-they-won't-they plot, before the characters get together in Bones season 6.

Series lead Emily Deschanel recently spoke with David Duchovny on his podcast Fail Better and revealed that the first season of Bones was very hard on her, due to long work hours and challenges learning the vocabulary of her character's profession.

Bones aired on Fox for 12 seasons and 246 episodes between 2005 and 2017. The police procedural series was based on forensic anthropology and forensic archaeology, as they investigated crimes with the FBI.

The series was extremely popular, starring Emily Deschanel as Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel's David Boreanaz as FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth. As the series was filled with gruesome murders, it was also extremely dialogue-heavy, filled with intricate technical jargon from different science fields. Speaking to The X Files' David Duchovny in a recent episode of the podcast Fail Better, Deschanel revealed she was struggling emotionally and professionally when filming Bones Season 1.

The actress opened up about her diagnosis of Adhd and dyslexia, and how it affected her career, as well as her early difficulties with the hit series. Speaking about the first season struggle around the 20:30 mark, the actress explained she struggled with the dialogue.

David Duchovny said he was the “curator” of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder, his character on the hit sci-fi series The X-Files, and he even had to tell creator Chris Carter about a continuity error on the Fox drama. In a new episode of his Fail Better podcast, Duchovny and Bones star Emily Deschanel discussed how they sometimes knew their characters better than the writers of the shows. And Duchovny related an anecdote from filming “Fire,” a first-season X-Files episode in which Mulder confronts a debilitating fear of fire while pursuing a serial arsonist. “I remember, like, in the middle of the episode, I had this thought,” the actor said. “I think I went up to Chris Carter — who wrote that episode, I believe — and I said, ‘Didn’t Mulder and Scully [Gillian Anderson] watch a building burn down in the pilot? And I think Mulder was fairly cool with it.

Emily Deschanel says she came close to losing her lead role on “Bones” after panic attacks and a single late arrival during the show’s first season, speaking on David Duchovny’s “Fail Better” podcast released this week. She recalled the studio labeling her “late and unprepared,” a critique that left her “beside myself” and filled with shame.

Long 14- to 16-hour days, little sleep and dense medical jargon compounded the pressure, especially because she lives with Adhd and dyslexia. Deschanel said she would go home and “cry in a bathtub every night,” unaware the tightness in her chest were panic attacks. A traffic delay that made her 30 minutes late prompted creator Hart Hanson to warn that executives were questioning her professionalism, pushing her to vow never to be late again.

Hanson and co-star David Boreanaz arranged a larger trailer, quieter rehearsal space and a line coach—changes Deschanel credits with restoring her confidence.

Emily Deschanel recalled struggling emotionally and professionally while filming the first season of Fox’s Bones, to the point where she got a talking-to about her lack of preparedness.

In a recent episode of podcast Fail Better with host David Duchovny, who once directed an episode of the police procedural, Deschanel opened up about the pain point and how her diagnosis of Adhd and dyslexia as a child affected her career later on.

“We were working insane hours, longer than just a normal series,” Deschanel began. “You’re working 14- to 16-hour days, and then I had to memorize the lines. So I’d be staying up late night memorizing lines. I would joke that I would go home and just cry in a bathtub every night because I was just so overwhelmed.”

She continued, “I’d come to set and I would be trying to remember the lines that...

Emily Deschanel is getting honest about the struggles she had on set of her show Bones.

The 48-year-old actress played the role of Dr. Temperance Brennan on the show for its 12 season run. As a guest on David Duchovny‘s Fail Better podcast on Tuesday (July 8), Emily got vulnerable about struggling on the set of the show.

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On the podcast, Emily revealed that her Adhd and dyslexia diagnoses made memorizing lines for the show difficult. The actress shared that during the first season, she had trouble remembering the technical jargon that should have come naturally to her character.

“We were working insane hours, longer than just a normal series. You’re working 14- to 16-hour days, and then I had to memorize the lines. So I’d be staying up late night memorizing lines. I would joke that I would go home and just...

David Duchovny is revealing how he handled character inconsistencies while filming The X-Files.

The 64-year-old actor played the role of FBI agent Fox Mulder on the 90s supernatural drama. According to David, having directors that didn’t fully understand the character was his main “pet peeve” while working on the show.

During the Tuesday (July 8) episode of David‘s Fail Better podcast, he talked about correcting plot holes on the show.

Keep reading to find out more…

Actress Emily Deschanel was a guest on the podcast episode. During the episode, David talked about how The X-Files compares to Emily‘s show Bones in that both shows have a high amount of drama per episode.

“Sometimes the directors would come on and they’d know they had a great script and [since] this was on The X-Files, this could happen, you know? Like, ‘Holy s—, this is a great script,’ and they really wanted to kill it.

“Bones” star Emily Deschanel nearly broke down in tears as she recalled the time she almost was fired while filming the show’s first season because the series’ strenuous work schedule led her to have panic attacks.

“I didn’t know I was having panic attacks, but I was basically having panic attacks at the time,” Deschanel, who played Temperance “Bones” Brennan in the Fox series, told David Duchovny on his podcast “Fail Better with David Duchovny,” a series that spotlights how failures shape a person’s personal and professional trajectory.

As she explained the root of her panic attacks, the actress shared that filming the first scene was insanely difficult because of its brutal schedule and tight turnarounds for actors.

“We were working insane hours, longer than just a normal series. You’re working 14- to 16-hour days, and then I had to memorize the lines,” Deschanel explained. “So...

There has been growing chatter about reviving the beloved Fox police procedural, Bones. Starring David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel as FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth and forensic anthropologist Temperance "Bones" Brennan, respectively, Bones became a standout series in a crowded field of procedurals. With its strong focus on character development, the show captivated audiences not just for its thrilling case files but for the entertaining dynamic between Booth and Brennan. Both stars have frequently reiterated their interest in returning for a revival. But while nothing is official just yet, there's a bit of news that hints that plans might begin to crystallize, hopefully in the not-too-distant future.

Bones, which premiered in the summer of 2005, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and, to mark the milestone, the show's cast and crew are reuniting for the inaugural Televerse event. Per Variety, the new festival from The Television Academy is scheduled to...

Bonesstars David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel are officially reuniting to celebrate the Fox show's 20th anniversary. The duo are leading a special event to mark the occasion for the still-popular procedural.

Per Bleeding Cool, Boreanaz and Deschanel will appear alongside fellow cast members T.J. Thyne, Tamara Taylor and Bones creator Hart Hanson during a special 20th anniversary panel at Televerse in Los Angeles. The event will run from August 14-16, 2025 at the Jw Marriott at L.A. Live, and the panel will feature Hanson and the actors looking back at Bones' twelve seasons.

Bones was based on the life of world-renowned forensic anthropologist and author Kathy Reichs, who served as a producer on the series. It starred Deschanel as Temperance "Bones" Brennan, a fictionalized version of Reichs who worked at the Jeffersonian Institute in Washington D.C., frequently alongside FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth (played by Boreanaz). The series' ensemble...

Master classes taught by Emmy-winning actor Henry Winkler and Emmy-nominated writer/producer Beau Willimon, a 20th anniversary reunion of the cast and creators of Bones and the induction of Winkler, Viola Davis, Ryan Murphy, Conan O’Brien, Mike Post and, posthumously, Don Mischer, into the Television Academy Hall of Fame, will all be part of the programming for the TV Academy’s inaugural Televerse Festival.

The event, which will take place Aug. 14-16 at Jw Marriott at L.A. Live, will also include a sneak screening of the upcoming Peacock limited series Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy and a panel featuring the Los Angeles Dodgers’ TV broadcasting team.

Additional programming will be announced soon, the TV Academy indicated in a statement. And more extensive details about the aforementioned programs appear below.

Acting Class with Henry Winkler

Emmy Award-winning actor and Television Academy Hall of Fame inductee Winkler (Barry, Royal Pains,...

Updated: “Queer as Folk” 25th anniversary reunion, premiere screenings of “The Rainmaker,” “Anne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order” were added to the Television Academy’s inaugural Televerse festival.

The festival offers Academy members, industry professionals and fans access to today’s top creators, storytellers and stars as well as panels featuring this year’s Emmy-nominated programs and behind-the-scenes intel of popular shows. Televerse will take place at the Jw Marriott at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles from Aug. 14 to Aug. 16.

The latest additions to the Televerse lineup include “The Art of Foley With Sanaa Kelley,” “A Candid Conversation With Cris About the State of the Industry,” “FYC Presentations,” “Scene by Scene With Tommy Schlamme” and “What’s Next: The Future of Music Supervision.”

Previously: “Bones” stars Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, T.J. Thyne and Tamara Taylor, along with creator/showrunner Hart Hanson, will celebrate the Fox drama’s...

The Television Academy has announced plans for its inaugural Televerse, an immersive festival celebrating all things television, set to take place August 14–16 at the Jw Marriott at L.A. Live. The three-day event will include acting workshops, TV reunions, and Emmy-nominated panels.

Among the headline events is "Acting Class With Henry Winkler," where the Emmy-winning actor and Television Academy Hall of Fame inductee will share techniques on building character and connecting with audiences. Winkler, known for his iconic roles in Happy Days and Barry, will lead a live workshop aimed at performers and fans alike.

In addition, there will be a Bones 20th anniversary panel, reuniting creator Hart Hanson and cast members Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, T.J. Thyne, and Tamara Taylor. The panel will reflect on the procedural's 12 seasons and explore its real-life forensic inspirations.

Emmy-nominated writer Beau Willimon will conduct a live story-breaking session during "Breaking Story With Beau Willimon,...

The Television Academy has announced that its inaugural Televerse Festival will feature a 20th anniversary “Bones” reunion panel and a special acting class conducted by none other than living TV legend Henry Winkler.

The first wave of programming for the multi-day event, which is set to unfold Aug. 14-16 at the Jw Marriott at L.A. Live, was announced Tuesday morning. Scheduled to take place before the final round of Emmy voting, the festival promises to not only celebrate television and its icons but also provide attendees and awards voters with unprecedented access and insight into some of the year’s biggest TV shows and award contenders.

As was announced Tuesday, the Televerse Festival will include an acting class with Henry Winkler, in which the “Happy Days” star will host a “live acting workshop, delving into the art of performance, building character and connecting with your audience.” Winkler, notably, won...

When you've got 23 crime novels as source material, you might think that writing a show would be as easy as just copying the books as closely as possible. But "Bones," which is based on forensic anthropologist Dr. Kathy Reichs' Temperance Brennan book series, is a lot more than a straightforward adaptation. The novel series began in 1997 with "Deja Dead," and follows the career of forensic scientist Temperance "Bones" Brennan, whose namesake also leads the show. Temperance is, in turn, based on the life and experiences of Reichs (who had a sneaky cameo in "Bones" season 2), but the show itself deviates significantly from the books, introducing a whole new cast of characters and storylines.

"Bones" ran for a full 12 seasons from 2005 to 2017, with most episodes introducing new mysteries for Emily Deschanel's Temperance Brennan and David Boreanaz's FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth to solve — with help from the "squinterns" at the Jeffersonian Institute.

By the time "Stargate Sg-1" was cancelled by the Sci-Fi channel in 2007, "Bones" had been on the air for two years. That show's creator, Hart Hanson, had worked on "Sg-1" back when it was first getting started and it seems he took several lessons from his time on the cult classic sci-fi series.

After Roland Emmerich's "Stargate" became a box office hit in 1994, "Sg-1" was created to continue the story of the titular crew, and Hanson penned one episode for the first season back in 1997, before departing the show altogether. As the series drew to a close, Hanson was overseeing a much different show in "Bones," which began airing in 2005. The offbeat procedural paired the intellectual, socially awkward Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) with the fully grown jock that was FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz). Through an incongruous mix of humor and horror alongside an effortless chemistry between the two series leads,...

For a seasoned "Bones" fan, it may seem like a travesty to condense Hart Hanson's 246-episode series into just five examples. The undeniable charm of Emily Deschanel's Temperance Brennan, David Boreanaz's Seeley Booth, and the rest of the show's colorful characters is at its best when the viewer experiences their entire arcs, after all. Still, there's no denying that every series has casual viewers, and many people will no doubt want to find out what all the buzz around the show is about -- especially with a "Bones" revival seeming more likely than ever right now.

To this end, I've picked what, to me, are the five quintessential "Bones" episodes that even the most casual procedural drama fan will want to check out. Some of these episodes are there for the lore, others because of their particular placement in the series, and others still simply because they're damn fine hours of TV.

Network television has had no shortage of shocking TV character deaths. Some have been satisfying and earned, some have been brutal and unexpected. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg, not even exploring which characters were almost killed off but weren’t. For the show Bones, one character’s journey almost ended much sooner. On Boneheads, the Bones podcast hosted by cast members Emily Deschanel and Carla Gallo, guest star Tamara Taylor reveals her character Cam Saroyan was actually meant to be killed off. The fact, not even known to her fellow cast members.

She explains the conversation that went on behind the scenes. “'So, you're doing so well,' and I said 'thank you' 'and you're doing so well the fans are loving you' which was like 'thank you' 'we're gonna have to kill you',” says Taylor. Deschanel and Gallo both gasp. Taylor explains that she was...

We've heard the song and dance before: there's a lot of lines, a lot of canon, and a lot of history to keep stored up in the noggin when you've been on a hit television show. Gilmore Girls' Lauren Graham has talked many times about this when fans approach her with niche lines. With a show like the Fox crime drama Bones, the same can be said, at least for one of the actresses. Tamara Taylor, who played Cam Saroyan, recently joined hosts Emily Deschanel and Carla Gallo on the Boneheads Podcast, and Taylor was reminded by Deschanel of a guest star that has gone on to make sinfully good strides in Hollywood. Sinners star Michael B. Jordan briefly guest starred on the hit crime drama in Season 5.

On the podcast, Deschanel says, "Your daughter on the show dated Michael B. Jordan." Taylor, perplexed, asks, "She got to date Michael B.

Things might not have worked out all that well for "Suits LA," which was cancelled after one season despite the success of its mothership series. But make no mistake, we are still very much in the age of newstalgia, a streaming trend that's as simple as taking something popular from a bygone era and presenting it to modern audiences as if it were new.

"Bones" might not seem as though it belongs to a bygone time, as the show only wrapped up in 2017. But not only is that almost a decade ago, things have changed pretty dramatically since then. What's more, "Bones" debuted all the way back in 2005, meaning there's a whole TV-watching generation who have no recollection of a time when the show was dominating network TV. Heck, there's a whole generation that doesn't remember network TV, so "Bones" is very much prime newstalgia fodder.

Sadly, a "Bones" revival...

There’s an older John Mulaney bit that’s always resonated with me. The bit starts with Mulaney joking about what can and cannot be said on network television before pivoting to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. There, he says, you’ll hear the nastiest dialogue about “fecal matter” and “ear canals” ever spoken, all at 11 Am. Anyone who grew up in the heyday of network television, especially procedural television, knows exactly what Mulaney is talking about. The X-Files had gnarlier scares than most horror movies released during the series’ run.

Those scares often came from the least likely sources, too. Sure, I’ve written about network sitcoms’ scariest episodes, but if you want the good stuff, you’ve got to go procedural. One of the best there is featured some of the nastiest, gooiest gore you’ve likely ever seen, on network television or otherwise. Sure, viewers were...

On the hit TV series "Bones," FBI Agent Seeley Booth, played by David Boreanaz, is presented as a down-to-earth, kind of blue-collar law enforcement officer. He is the pragmatist and the realist of the show's central pair, giving the ultra-cerebral "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel) someone to bounce ideas off of. She approaches a murder victim with curiosity, while Booth explains things out loud in more humane terms. Dramatically, he serves as a translator of Bones' medical jargon. Before working for the FBI, Booth was an Army Ranger, where he worked as a sniper.

The dynamic between Bones and Booth was enough to carry "Bones" through 246 episodes throughout its 12 seasons. The show was reminiscent of numerous other hit police procedurals ("NCIS" and the like), but with a whimsical horror/comedy bent, largely thanks to its extreme gore and kooky explanations for the murders at hand. The central dynamic also reminded some viewers of "The X-Files,...

Technically, "Bones" ended in 2017 after 12 seasons. In practice, however, the Fox procedural has never really gone anywhere. Much of it is thanks to the deliberately open-ended ending that explains what happens to Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) and Dr. Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) but makes clear that both are still absolutely available for crime fighting in the future. There's also the matter of the oft-reported news about the show's potential return. In fact, a "Bones" revival seems more likely than ever right now, and Boreanaz even has the perfect pitch to bring the series back.

Against this backdrop, it seems strange that "Bones" ever ended in the first place. However, this may very well be a case of "you don't know what you have until it's gone," because when they were still making the series, the "Bones" cast and crew were talking about it ending years before the show actually aired its finale.

Tiva fans, your ship is breaking the internet. NCIS: Tony & Ziva, in the week that the trailer for the upcoming Paramount+ series has been out, is breaking records for the franchise. According to Deadline, across multiple platforms, the trailer for the Cote De Pablo and Michael Weatherly series has raked in a whopping 93 million and counting views. This includes 26.5 million across YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, as well as 13 million on digital, including Paramount+, and the rest through broadcast. The trailer was the first in-depth look at the highly anticipated Paramount+ series that will follow NCIS characters Tony Dinozzo and Ziva David while they're on the run with their young daughter Tali.

An Iconic TV Will-They-Won't-They Got Their Own TV Show, Shippers Rejoice

In the 2000s, several "ships" seemed to dominate the will-they-won't-they dynamic on police procedurals. Tony and Ziva, played by Weathely and De Pablo respectively, were one of them,...

"Bones" might have been off the air for almost a decade, but love for the long-running Fox procedural very much endures. That's not just among fans, either. Stars Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz have spoken about how they enjoyed working together on "Bones," in which they played forensic scientist Temperance Brennan and FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, respectively. What's more, the co-stars have remained sanguine about the possibility of a "Bones" revival and have openly stated their desire to return — though actually getting a "Bones" revival off the ground is more complicated than you might think.

Meanwhile, other former cast members have spoken fondly of their time on the show, including the "squints" or "squinterns." This affectionate name for the interns at the fictional Jeffersonian Institute where Brennan works caught on early in the show's run, and throughout 12 seasons of "Bones," the squints became one of the most integral parts of the series' success.

Emily Deschanel began her career back in 1994 and has appeared in several TV shows and movies. But by far her most memorable and best-known role was as forensic anthropologist Temperance "Bones" Brennan on Fox's offbeat procedural "Bones." Not only did she play the role for 12 straight seasons between 2005 and 2017, but Deschanel also directed one of the most important "Bones" episodes and became a producer on the series around season 4, ensuring she had an element of control over the show that came to define her career. In turn, Deschanel played a large part in defining the series itself, which, after such a long on-air run, is impossible to think about without the actress in the lead role.

There is another woman without whom neither "Bones" nor Temperance Brennan would exist, however: Kathy Reichs. A real-life forensic anthropologist, Reichs used her decades of experience to write a series of mystery novels based around the Brennan character,...

When you play a character for 12 years, there's bound to be some overlap between their fictional life and your own. That's exactly what happened with David Boreanaz and FBI Agent Seeley Booth on "Bones." The off-kilter Fox procedural ran from 2005 to 2017 and clearly Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel, who played forensic scientist Temperance Brennan, felt extremely close to their characters and the show overall. In the years since the series went off the air, Boreanaz has seemed eager to return for a "Bones" revival, and has spoken enthusiastically about his positive experiences working alongside Deschanel. But he's also probably just missing Agent Booth as a character. 

Aside from Angel on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and the "Angel" spinoff series, Booth is the role for which Boreanaz is most well-known. Clearly the actor himself embraced this, infusing the FBI agent with elements of his own personality as the series went on. Nowhere...

When "Bones" wrapped up in 2017, it had been on the air for a full 12 seasons. As such, there were plenty of potential keepsakes that the cast and crew might have snuck out on their last day. Considering how long the show had been going and how successful it had been, there was every reason for them to do so. Stars David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel have spoken about working together, remembering it as a positive experience, which it seems they'd be willing to repeat, if their comments on the potential "Bones" revival are anything to go by. In fact, pretty much everybody who worked on the Fox procedural seems to be eager to return, suggesting that the series wasn't just a big success, but a grand old time all around.

As such, you can imagine why the actors would have taken a piece of the show with them back in 2017. For Boreanaz,...

In 2009, Fox created a "Simpsons" scavenger hunt to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of the series. It involved hiding Easter eggs and references to the animated sitcom in all of the network's prime-time programs, including "House," "Lie to Me," and "Glee." At the time, Fox's popular procedural "Bones" had been running for four years and was in the midst of its fifth season. As such, it too received the "Simpsons" scavenger hunt treatment, and might have been the show that most successfully paid tribute to Matt Groening's series.

Season 5, episode 7, entitled "The Dwarf in the Dirt," contained multiple nods to "The Simpsons," including a wrestler named Bumblebee Man and a scene at the Jeffersonian Institute that featured an x-ray of Homer Simpson's skull hanging in the background, revealing an alarmingly small brain. The episode also featured a cameo by Homer voice actor Dan Castellaneta, who plays police officer Navarro...

From 2007 to 2014 and across 138 episodes, writer, director, producer, and actor John Francis Daley played Dr. Lance Sweets on "Bones," Hart Hanson's beloved procedural series about forensic anthropologists solving cold cases. Did you know, though, that Daley also wrote one of those episodes?

The season 6 episode "The Truth in the Myth" — which was written by Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein, directed by Chad Lowe, and came out in 2011 — focuses on a case involving a man who worked as a "mythbuster" named Lee Coleman (Leigh McCloskey) who, it's believed, died in some sort of incident with the mythical Chupacabra. After Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and her team keep investigating, they find all sorts of different animal traces on the corpse, including bite marks, scales from reptiles, and hair from mammals, though the pragmatic Bones remains convinced that it's all some sort of hoax.

Bones is, as usual, right. The weird...

"Bones" ran for 12 seasons between 2005 and 2017, and by all accounts, star David Boreanaz mostly had a great time throughout. Heck, Boreanaz has even revealed that he has the perfect pitch for a "Bones" revival, once again speaking to his willingness to return to the show and his positive view of the previous 12 seasons.  There were a few things that the former "Angel" star wasn't a huge fan of however -- one of which involved an aesthetic change that went against what both Booth and Boreanaz were known for.

Ever since Boreanaz broke through with his role as Angel on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" back in 1997, he's been known for his clean-shaven appearance. Despite many a young heartthrob sporting designer stubble through the years, Boreanaz's vampire boyfriend was always more of a clean cut kinda guy, and that continued in his own spin-off, "Angel," which ran from 1999 until 2004. By the time...

We are firmly in the age of "newstalgia," a streaming trend that involves unearthing beloved series and films from the past and presenting them to new generations. It's happened with "Friends" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and countless movies that have been exhumed by Netflix and added to the platform's capacious servers. But this trend doesn't have to involve shows that went off the air decades ago. Take "Suits," for instance, which wrapped up its nine-season run on the USA Network in 2019 before finding renewed success on Netflix just four years later when streaming subscribers went positively "Suits" mad. The same, it seems, could soon be said for "Bones."

Fox's procedural ran for an impressive 12 seasons from 2005 to 2017, and remains popular in the streaming age. The Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz-led series is currently available on Hulu and appears to still be drawing fans, judging by all the talk of a "Bones" revival.

During its run "Bones" was beloved by fans for its off-kilter mix of humor, crime, and horror. Typically, leads Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz would engage in some witty banter immediately before the show unleashed some sort of upsettingly realistic cadaver, which made "Bones" a truly unique experience. The show's graphic corpses were the work of fake body specialists and brothers Kevin and Chris Yagher, who provided bodies, body parts, and all manner of viscera across 12 seasons of "Bones," and at times, they simply went too far.

There was the fresh body on "Bones" that grossed out producer Stephen Nathan, who removed a shot of a detached skull and spine from the season 7 episode "The Crack in the Code," for being "too horrible." Evidently, this particular body was a tad too fresh to be showcased extensively, and if you're not all that familiar with "Bones," that should tell you a lot about the show.

Fox's popular crime procedural "Bones" never hesitated to add a bit of interpersonal drama to its investigations. In fact, on many occasions, the relationships between the show's central characters far overshadowed the case at hand, no matter how bloody and dangerous things got.

The couple that quite rightfully gets the most attention on the show are, of course, forensic pathologist extraordinaire Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz). Much of the series' allure comes from their slow and occasionally turbulent progress from uneasy work partners to one of the most loving and devoted married couples in the history of the procedural drama genre. However, they're hardly the only romantic duo on "Bones," and sometimes, the show's amorous pairings came to be in surprising ways.

One particularly popular "Bones" twosome consists of entomologist-slash-conspiracy theorist Jack Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) and Brennan's best friend, the forensic artist...

Temperance "Bones" Brennan is easily Emily Deschanel's biggest and most well-known role. The Fox procedural became a popular Thursday night hit for the network, running for an impressive 12 seasons, which kept Dr. Brennan and her partner Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) in the public consciousness for more than a decade. But "Bones" provided Deschanel with more than a high-profile starring role. By the time the show wrapped up in 2017, the actor had become a producer on the show and also made her directing debut, helming a particularly important episode in the series' history.

It took a full 11 seasons before Deschanel would get her chance to direct, but when she did finally step into the role, she oversaw the return of a beloved character in the form of Eric Millegan's Zack Addy, who left "Bones" after the third season. That season ended with the Addy being sent to a...

When a series runs for 12 seasons, you'd expect there to be some sort of lingering personal drama keeping the cast and crew from fully embracing the idea of a return. Working alongside the same people for that long just seems as though it would, at some point, have resulted in some conflict that might well have precluded any future reunion. But with "Bones," everybody seems onboard for a revival.

In fact, a "Bones" revival seems more likely than ever right now, with former producers, writers, and actors expressing their desire to return to the show, which ran from 2005 to 2017 on the Fox network. Most importantly, series stars Emily Deschanel, who played forensic scientist Temperance "Bones" Brennan, and David Boreanaz, who played FBI Agent Seeley Booth, have said they'd be open to reprising their roles. Boreanaz, whose CBS/Paramount+ series "Seal Team" wrapped up in October 2024, has confirmed in interviews that...

"Bones" had a truly impressive run from 2005 to 2017, delivering 12 seasons of off-kilter procedural action and developing a dedicated fanbase in the process. That said, it took a little time for "Bones" to reach its full ratings potential. In fact, it wasn't until the fourth season, after Fox moved the show to the 8pm Thursday night slot, that it really took off. The series brought in an average of 10.81 million viewers for season 4, a marked improvement on the 8.9 million from the prior season. But season 4 could have easily been the point at which fans turned on "Bones," after a twist that truly nobody saw coming and which left fans feeling let down by the show they'd come to love.

Throughout its run, "Bones" managed to bewilder fans on several occasions. The "Bones" season 1 opening credits had viewers mixing up two cast members, and later David Boreanaz's Agent Seeley Booth had...

With a full 12 seasons, "Bones" had plenty of time to amass a large and passionate fanbase, and ever since the show went off the air in 2017, that fan base has been clamoring for more. The Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz-led procedural built a following with it's off-kilter tone, mixing a lighthearted sensibility with some of the most horrific crime scenes you're ever likely to see on a network show (one fresh body on "Bones" even went too far for producer Stephen Nathan). For some fans, the loss of this offbeat crime series was too much to take, and talk of a reboot or revival has been ongoing ever since 2017.

In that time, we've had some positive and encouraging developments, suggesting that fans might just get what they want. When, how, and with which former actors involved remains unclear, but a "Bones" season 13 certainly seems likely based solely on the...

Bones was a long-running crime dramedy which succeeded because it masterfully blended elements of suspense, action, romance, and comedy. This was particularly evident in their handling of romantic relationships, most notably that between Booth and Bones. However, another fan-favorite couple was that of Jack Hodgins and Angela Montenegro, which apparently had actors T.J. Thyne and Michaela Conlin as advocates behind the scenes.

T.J. Thyne appeared in a segment of an episode of the Boneheads podcast, hosted by series stars Emily Deschanel and Carla Gallo –who played Dr. Temperance Brennan and Daisy Wick–, to discuss the development of his character's romance with Conlin’s and the role they both played in it. When asked about his favorite episode, Thyne responded, "I loved any episode where I got to kiss Michaela. It was like, oh my god, this is amazing. I get to go in and have this incredible experience with a dear friend.

The vindication of a ship getting together is made sweeter when you know it was advocated for by the actors behind it. With the series Bones, of course fans waited seven long seasons for Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) to get together but another couple that stood out for fans was the adorable Angela Montenegro (Michaela Conlin) and Jack Hodgins (T.J. Thyne). The pair would get together, marry, and even have children before the series wrapped up after 12 seasons. On an episode of Boneheadswith Emily Deschanel and Carla Gallo, Thyne joined the pair to talk about his character and also how Angela and Hodgins came to be a couple.

Gallo asked Thyne about his favorite episode, to which he replied, "I loved any episode where I got to kiss Michaela. It was like, oh my god, this is amazing. I get to go...

For a show that featured a lot of death, "Bones" sure did have a lot of heart. A series doesn't run for 12 seasons without an effective emotional core, after all, and "Bones" certainly managed to maintain a soft spot, even as Emily Deschanel's Temperance Brennan and David Boreanaz's Agent Seeley Booth inspected some of the most horrific corpses you've ever seen on TV.

One nice behind-the-scenes aspect of the series to offset the ongoing corpse inspections was the fact that the "Bones" cast often included family members of the stars and the show's creator, Hart Hanson. David Boreanaz's father, Dave Roberts, appeared in an uncredited cameo as an FBI agent, while Hanson's own father, Paul, showed up as a vending machine repairman. But it was during one Christmas episode that we got perhaps the most notable family-member appearance in the series.

Yes, even "Bones," with fake cadavers...

The hit crime drama series Bones turns 20 years old this year, and fans continue to hope that the original stars will one day reunite for a revival. While such a project has yet to officially go into development, Deschanel's latest comments on the possibility are very promising.

These days, Emily Deschanel, who played Temperance Brennan, co-hosts the Bones rewatch podcast, Boneheads, alongside Carla Gallo (Daisy Wick). Speaking about the podcast and the TV series with Brittany Frederick of Cbr, Deschanel and Gallo both made it clear they're up to return for a new series set in the Bones universe. However, as Deschanel also pointed out, it's not a decision that's up to them, otherwise the revival would have already happened.

"I keep bringing it up! We had Tj [Thyne, who played Jack Hodgins] for that premium content, and I was like, okay, Tj, would you do a reboot? And he was like yeah,...

Fox's Bones was one of the most popular TV crime dramas for 12 seasons, and no one knows that better than stars Emily Deschanel and Carla Gallo, who played Temperance Brennan and Daisy Wick respectively. They've been giving the show a second look through their Bones rewatch podcast Boneheads. In each episode, Carla and Emily share their on-set perspectives about each episode -- as well as their honest opinions.

In an interview with Cbr, the duo spoke about why they launched Boneheads with Lemonada Media, and what makes it stand out amongst the other TV rewatch podcasts. They also discussed what they've enjoyed about bringing their off-screen friendship to a podcast audience. Plus, as they look back at the success of Bones, has that piqued their interest in the idea of a Bones revival on TV?

Cbr: What interested you in doing a Bones rewatch podcast to begin with? Were you...

The action drama Tracker has been a hit for CBS since its premiere in 2024. It stars Justin Hartley in the lead role as Colter Shaw, taught to be a survivalist by his father and now making his living as a "rewardist." Traveling all over the U.S. in his airstream, Colter works with private citizens and law enforcement to locate missing people in exchange for reward money. Based on Jeffrey Deaver's 2019 bestselling novel The Never Game and developed for TV by Ben H. Winters, Tracker has all the makings of a long-lasting network series. Its first season topped CBS ratings as the most-watched scripted series with an average of over eight million viewers per episode, and the second season kept the ball rolling with the most-watched premiere of the 2024-25 broadcast season. But should it be worried by accusations of plagiarism?

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Time is a tricky thing. As it passes, things change, and sometimes what that means is that a piece of pop culture doesn't hold up quite as well as one might hope. According to one of the original stars of Hart Hansen's hit procedural series "Bones," some elements of the show haven't really held up over the years.

The comments came on the rewatch podcast "Boneheads," hosted by Carla Gallo (who played Jeffersonian intern Daisy Wick in "Bones") and Emily Deschanel (who played the lead role of author and forensic anthropologist Temperance "Bones" Brennan). On an episode that released back in September 2024, Deschanel said that she has some misgivings rewatching the show. "I would say it makes you reflect on how it was a different time," Deschanel mused. "There were some not-cool representations and some stereotypes, things to apologize for. But otherwise it is a total trip down memory lane.

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