The Paley Center for Media is excited to announce the addition of BONES to the lineup of honorees for PaleyFest 2012. The series, now in its seventh season, will be honored at the festival on Thursday, March 8 at 7:00 pm at the Saban Theatre. Tickets will go on sale to members on Wednesday, February 1 at 9:00 am PT and will be on sale to the general public Friday, February 3 at 9:00 am PT.

BONES, a darkly amusing procedural entering its seventh season, is inspired by real-life forensic anthropologist and novelist Kathy Reichs.

DR. TEMPERANCE BRENNAN (Emily Deschanel) is a highly skilled forensic anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian Institute in Washington, D.C., and writes novels on the side. When the standard methods of identifying a body are useless (when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed), law enforcement calls on Brennan for her uncanny ability to read clues left behind in the victim’s bones.

While most people can’t handle Brennan’s intelligence, her drive for the truth or the way she flings herself headlong into every investigation, SPECIAL AGENT SEELEY BOOTH (David Boreanaz) of the FBI’s Homicide Investigations Unit is an exception. A former Army sniper, Booth mistrusts science and scientists – the “squints,” as he calls them – who pore over the physical evidence of a crime. But even he cannot deny that the combination of his people-smarts and Brennan’s scientific acumen makes them a formidable duo.

Aside from Booth, Brennan is most comfortable with her equally brilliant colleagues at the Jeffersonian’s Medico-Legal Lab. ANGELA MONTENEGRO (Michaela Conlin), an artist who specializes in reconstructing facial features and crime scenes, is Brennan’s earthy and bawdy best friend. Angela is married to DR. JACK HODGINS (TJ Thyne), affectionately known as “the slime and bug guy,” a conspiracy theorist and expert on insects, spores and minerals. DR. CAMILLE “CAM” SAROYAN (Tamara Taylor), the street-smart and centered coroner, must wrangle all the geniuses under her purview. Lending his professional expertise to Brennan and Booth is DR. LANCE SWEETS (John Francis Daley), a brilliant young FBI psychologist who is equally adept at profiling murderers and providing impromptu therapy to his co-workers.

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David Boreanaz (Booth) decided to tweet some encouraging light reading today: a missive from the relatively obscure Noob News listing six TV shows whose main characters’ relationships “didn’t kill” the programs. We’ve got some oldies like Friends and Frasier, the ever-popular How I Met Your Mother… and Bones!

Noob News’s Charles B. French breaks the situation down pretty matter-of-factly: namely, the complication of Brennan (Emily Deschanel)’s pregnancy “hasn’t made the show unbearable, just added a new layer to Brennan and Booth.” (In other words: no Moonlighting curse here, folks.) As French puts it, “[i]t’s a shipper’s dream, but at the same time it isn’t dreamily ever after.” So we get our gooey love scenes, but there’s also a powerful dollop of Booth-Brennan conflict. Everyone wins!

… And for the one or two of you out there who can’t stand the Big Relationship… well, Bones “is also an ensemble show, not just about [Booth and Brennan].” We have the unparalleled privilege of being able to zoom out from B&B and focus on the sundry compelling subordinate characters — take Angela (Michaela Conlin)’s and Hodgins (TJ Thyne)’s baby woes, or Cam (Tamara Taylor)’s trials with her post-adolescent adopted daughter, or new squintern Finn (Luke Kleintank)’s struggle to fit in with the Jeffersonian’s generally northeast-type crowd. And all that says nothing of the festering bodies on which we can feast our eyes every week!

See, with Bones, there’s something for everyone. And that’s why Booth and Brennan together didn’t kill the show.

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The Jeffersonian team will meet the most sinister villain in “Bones” history in the winter finale. The episode, which was pushed back from late 2011 to early this year, will introduce Andrew Leeds as Christopher Pellant, whom executive producer Stephen Nathan describes as a “genius hacktivist.”

Affirming that the new baddie may be the toughest one for the team to deal with, Tamara Taylor chimed in, “This guy is, I think, more diabolical than anyone we’ve dealt with before.” The Cam depicter additionally described Pellant as “creepy-scary,” before gushing, “He’s super-smart – maybe smarter than all of us combined – he leaves riddles, and he dismembers bodies and leaves the parts all over D.C.”

Nathan further revealed that Pellant “will fundamentally change the direction of the show by the end of the season, even though he’s not going to reappear that often.” He went more specific with his statement as saying, “Brennan will find herself in a situation she never thought she’d be in – and [Pellant] will be instrumental in that.”

Also talking about the new character, Michaela Conlin who plays Angela gushed that Pellant’s modus operandi is “really gross” that she calls the episode which will mark his debut “is a disturbing episode, for sure.”

The new villain aside, the January 12 episode of “Bones” will see Booth and Brennan finally finding a new house to live with their yet-to-be-born baby. “We’ve been playing that [arc] through these first six [episodes] – where they can live, what they can afford – so we’re setting up and giving them that life,” Nathan teased. “We’re going to go [into the break] knowing what the new threat is, and where they’re go to be living.”

“Bones” will take a hiatus after airing “The Crack in the Code” this Thursday, and return in spring. Recently at TCA winter press tour, FOX president Kevin Reilly hinted the the show’s season 7, which has been ordered for 17 episodes, could get extra episodes if the situation allows so.

“We ordered as many [episodes] as they could produce with Emily [Deschanel]. If they can produce 22 when she comes back, that’s what they’ll make,” Reilly explained.

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“Bones” has been on a mini-winter break for the past month, but after tonight’s new episode (Thursday, Jan. 12), it’ll be gone for several months. (Cue our loud sniffles.)

To tide us over until then, Zap2it spoke with Michaela Conlin (Angela) and Tamara Taylor (Cam) to try to eke out any potential spoilers for the second half of the season. Here’s how we fared:

Taylor promises plenty of intern-related incidents. “We’ve got, of course, more madcap hijinks with the interns. My daughter dates one of the interns, which is a whole crazy thing. We’re shooting that one now,” she spills. “Boyfriend’s coming back, and that’s kind of all I know right now.”

So Cam gets a little romance in her life? “Romance would be really really good. I keep on joking with Hart [Hanson, executive producer] that I want a dark past. Never gonna happen, but it would be really fun to play.”

Conlin wasn’t very forthcoming either, but she did talk in very vague terms about the episode. (Basically, she could be talking about every episode.)

“There’s a serial killer,” she shares. “Someone’s going to solve a crime, and it’s going to be us! I’m going to use some cool [tools], I’m going to make some cool programs! I can’t really tease any more than that. I will say there’s a really gross bone fragment. Okay, that’s totally not a spoiler. That’s every episode. But this one, for me, was particularly gross.”

While we won’t have any new episodes for a while, the cast is back at work shooting after taking a break for star Emily Deschanel’s maternity leave. “It’s been great [back on set],” Conlin says. “It was nice to have a break after seven years of long seasons. Emily’s been wonderful. She’s been back at work like she hasn’t missed a beat.”

As for stuff we’ll see in that second half of the season, Conlin promises some fun Bones/Angela action. “There are some great scenes with Brennan and Angela coming up that will be great,” she tells Zap2it. “Obviously they’re both moms, so there’s been some fun stuff that we’ve gotten to do together.”

This week, Bones dealt with relationships, particularly those of mothers and fathers. However, the episode, titled “The Twist in the Twister,” also addressed the awesome power of Mother Nature.

When a man’s dead body is found on an archery field, cause of death seems to be a fencepost through the chest. However, once the body’s examined in the lab, they find out it had been in a tornado that happened a few weeks back.

The crew identifies the victim as Scott Braley, a 32-year-old storm chaser. After talking with his brother, they learn his expensive storm chasing vehicle is missing. They think if they find it, they’ll know where Scott got murdered. So Booth (David Boreanaz) puts out an APB and the motor home turns up in Virginia.

Without telling Temperance (Emily Deschanel) where he’s going, Booth and Sweets (John Francis Daley) head to Virginia, where they find Scott’s former driver, Nolan, using the vehicle like a motel. He tells them he has it because Scott owed him back wages.

While his story checks out, Nolan tells Seeley that Scott had a female rival named Toni Lawrence. The two of them were vying for the same movie contract. With Scott gone, Tony automatically gets the deal. It’s a motive for murder.

Booth and Sweets find Toni just as a tornado forms nearby. Booth spies an orange tank—the same color as the murder weapon—strapped to one of her vehicles. While everyone else runs to a nearby storm shelter, he wrestles the tank loose, narrowly missing getting caught up in the tornado himself.

As the group closes the shelter doors, someone else arrives—it’s Bones. Booth isn’t happy that she’s risked her and the baby’s lives in the storm.

As the tornado passes, Bones and Booth interview Toni, Wes, the movie producer, and his film assistant/girlfriend. Wes claims Scott never showed up for their interview, so he couldn’t have killed him and neither could his girlfriend. Toni says she didn’t kill Scott either, but that she heard him arguing with someone whom he owed a lot of money. Once the storm passes, a rainbow overhead pleases the film assistant but affects no one else.

A check of Scott’s finances leads Booth back to the victim’s brother—his funding source. His brother agrees they did argue but says they also came to a deal. Scott had one more year to make a go of the business before he pulled financing.

In the lab, Angela (Michaela Conlin) and Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) are working sleep deprived. Baby Michael won’t sleep. So when Angela’s dad wants to take him out, they try to stop him, fearing he’ll stimulate the child even more.

Eventually, however, they give in and let grandpa babysit. Angela’s figured out a formula to ID from where the victim’s body came. She and Hodgins take a team to look for more clues. They find one of Scott’s storm chasing machines, proving he’d been there. They also find orange-colored glass covered with Scott’s blood. They also find green, blue, and purple glass. The murder weapon was a rainbow-colored water bottle.

Booth questions Wes’s girlfriend. She confirms she was in Scott’s mobile home, where she had sex with his driver, Nolan. Her boyfriend found out and dumped her, but apparently not before killing Scott by mistake.

When Angela and Hodgins return home, they hear loud music playing. They’re furious until they find Michael sound asleep. It seems the music soothes him.

On another home front, Bones confronts Booth about being overprotective. He tells she’s right but he isn’t going to stop.

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David Boreanaz (Booth) is getting a lot of buzz lately in light of his recent feature film, The Mighty Macs. Considering how Boreanaz’s sportsfan status has bled into Booth’s character, it doesn’t surprise us at all that he’d land a big-screen role as a former NBA referee. And in her report on Macs, Amy Longsdorf of Morning Call doesn’t appear too surprised, either… but she did get some nice info on Bones in the midst of her coverage!

Namely, there’s this delicious tidbit about Booth and Angela (Michaela Conlin). While the two characters interact only infrequently on Bones, it appears that the two actors have a lot to say to each other — including some fightin’ words!

“It’s always fun to be on the set with Michaela,” Boreanaz said, “and throw down some Allentown and Philly love. I always tease her about [Allentown] being famous for gymnastics.” When they’re not trading hometown jabs, Boreanaz continued, they’re developing a valuable director-actor relationship: “I really like working with [Conlin] as a director. I’m always challenging her to push her character even further.”

Boreanaz also took a moment to bust out some major Bones pride, claiming that the show is “the tipping point for procedurals.” According to DB, Bones really set the high-water mark for crime dramas, with every other network subsequently shooting for a “relationship-driven” analogue.

And with Fox considering an eighth season for Bones, we can’t exactly dispute Boreanaz’s take here! Imitation is the best form of flattery, after all. Long live Bones!

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Michaela Conlin, T.J. Thyne, Tamara Taylor and John Francis Daley will now earn in the mid-five figures per episode range to remain on the drama should it get an eighth season.

Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro), T.J. Thyne (Dr. Hodgins), Tamara Taylor (Dr. Saroyan) and John Francis Daley (Dr. Sweets) have closed new deals to remain on the long-running Fox detective series should it score an expected eighth season order.

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The four actors, who were making in the $30,000 to $40,000 per episode range heading into their negotiations with studio 20th Century Fox TV, received pay bumps that brought them each to the mid-five figures per episode in exchange for an additional season on their contract, a source tells The Hollywood Reporter. 20th TV declined comment.

For Conlin and Thyne, who are both original castmembers, season seven was the last on their contract.

The raises are retroactive and will count towards the show’s seventh season, which has been scaled back some to accomodate star Emily Deschanel’s pregnancy. For her part, Deschanel and her co-star David Boreanaz have already renegotiated their contracts. TV Guide Magazine pegged his salary at $200,000 per episode, while she is said to make slightly less than that.

At the Television Critics’ Association semi-annual press tour in July, Fox entertainment chief Kevin Reilly said that they hadn’t had any formal discussions about renewing Bones yet, but “the producer would like to keep it going; and we’d like to keep it going.”

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