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.

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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