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.

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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