As Bones” launches its fourth sea­son Wednes­day, Sept. 3, on Fox, fans are still reel­ing from the rev­e­la­tion in the sea­son three finale that sweet lit­tle Dr. Zack Addy (Eric Mil­le­gan) was an appren­tice to a ser­ial killer. So you can just imag­ine how Zack’s best friend, Dr. Jack Hod­gins, is feel­ing. But if actor TJ Thyne gets his wish, you won’t have to just imag­ine Jack’s state of mind much longer. I thought the episode as they aired it was very good, but they wound up cut­ting out Jack’s hon­est reac­tion to find­ing out it was Zack,” Thyne says. And Jack had a really, really hard time with it. He was beyond dis­traught. I wish you could have seen that, because that would have been an impor­tant arc. I’m hop­ing that over the next many months you’ll see how much it still affects Jack.” Jack is in for a bumpy road ahead in his rela­tion­ship with beau­ti­ful col­league Angela Mon­tene­gro (Michaela Con­lin) as well. Poor Jack,” Thyne says. Poor, poor Jack. That’s all I can say, but there are many hard­ships to come. It’s fun to play, though, because as humans we all go through the phases of rela­tion­ships shift­ing and other life changes. I am just such a huge fan of the char­ac­ter that I have my fin­gers crossed that he’s going to be OK in the end.” The fifth of sixth sib­lings (“I was Bobby Brady”), Thyne trav­eled a lot with his large fam­ily as his dad moved from job to job. Watch­ing his sib­lings onstage in high-school plays left Thyne fas­ci­nated with per­form­ing. I always knew that I was going to act, just not what medium I would wind up in,” he says. I love TV, but film and the­ater really are where my pas­sion lies.”

The TV Addict with BONES Star Michaela Con­lin in Los Ange­les, August 2008Full dis­clo­sure. Prior to last sea­son, I had never watched a sin­gle episode of BONES and quite frankly, cal­lously dis­missed it as yet another over­sim­pli­fied pro­ce­dural [ie. CSI]. Yet after hav­ing the plea­sure of inter­view­ing TJ Thyne, Emily Deschanel, Eric Mil­le­gan and Michaela Con­lin last Fall and absolutely falling head-over-heels in love with what by all accounts seems to be the nicest cast in Hol­ly­wood, I quickly changed my tune and jumped on the BONES bandwagon.Since then, I’ve been hooked. Because as any BONES fan will tell you. The show is so much more than your aver­age who-done-it! Rather, it’s about the rela­tion­ships between the char­ac­ters. Which is why fans are still reel­ing from last May’s shock­ing finale. And more to the point, why I started off my inter­view with BONES star Michaela Con­lin by ask­ing the following.How shocked were you by the out­come of last season’s finale?Michaela Con­lin: It was a big shocker wasn’t it.I mean “WOW,” I did not see that com­ing. When did you dis­cover that Zack was Gormogon’s Apprentice?Maybe a week before we got the script. I mean we started hear­ing rumors, but really it was con­firmed when we got the script. Eric had been with the show from the begin­ning so it def­i­nitely was a shock for every­one. But I think he’ll be back for a cou­ple of episodes. At least that’s what I’m hearing.And by ‘hear­ing,’ would it be safe to assume that it’s actu­ally going to hap­pen and Zack will be back!Okay, Yes [she smiles] Zach will def­i­nitely be back.As a fan I feel so bad for an actor when it’s revealed that they’re actu­ally a some­what psy­chotic killer [or killer’s appren­tice] and forced to exit the show.It is sad, but Eric is doing fine.

Pre­vi­ously on Bones: Dr. Zack Addy (Eric Mil­le­gan) was busted as Gormagon’s appren­tice and promptly arrested, leav­ing a hole in the hearts of the Jef­fer­son­ian team.We begin tonight’s new episode of Bones at Oxford Uni­ver­sity, where Bren­nan (Emily Deschanel) is giv­ing some bor­ing lec­ture about foren­sic anthro­pol­ogy. Booth (David Bore­anaz) is asleep in the audi­ence, snor­ing rather loudly. Bones asks him to stand as she acknowl­edges that her brand of “log­i­cal empiri­cism” isn’t always good, cit­ing Zack, which gets Booth riled up.The first British joke comes as Booth reveals he got drunk the pre­vi­ous night with some Scot­land Yard “boo­bies.” Bones cor­rects him by call­ing them “bob­bies,” but Booth dis­agrees, based on the ample cup sizes of his escorts. Cheeky mon­key. Wexler gets a call from Scot­land Yard about a mur­der, which sends the Amer­i­cans to a car retrieved from the Thames that con­tains heiress Por­tia Framp­ton. They meet a bobby named Kate Pritchard, who along with Wexler com­prise the British ver­sion of Bones and Booth. The Brits want the Yanks to help, but first Booth wants a gun.The evi­dence is sent back to the Jef­fer­son­ian, where the team (along with Clark, Bones’ assis­tant while Zack was in Iraq) glee­fully accepts the remains and some proper British slime. Angela (Michaela Con­lin) goes back to her office to find her mys­tery hus­band Grayson. She gives him a big kiss, then asks for a divorce. She takes him to see Cam (Tamara Tay­lor), who ogles him like some kind of god, though Angelia wants every­one to be cool about it for Hod­gins’ sake. Dr. Sweets (John Fran­cis Daley) shows up, takes one look at Grayson and laughs. Grayson and Hod­gins meet, and sur­pris­ingly, Hod­gins (TJ Thyne) is not intim­i­dated, even after learn­ing Grayson is still in love with Angela. To dis­tract him­self, Hod­gins dis­cov­ers a scooter was trans­ported in the back of the car, pro­vid­ing the per­fect get­away vehi­cle for the murderer.Back in Lon­don, Booth and Bones learn from Portia’s land devel­op­ing father (who Wexler works for) that she was dat­ing Lord Harry Bon­ham. En route to the Duke’s palace, Booth still hasn’t mas­tered the art of dri­ving on the other side of the road, scar­ing the heck out of Pritchard in the back­seat. While Booth throws a tem­per tantrum over how much he hates Eng­land, Bones gets a call from Cam reveal­ing Por­tia was two months pregnant.

BONES­Re­turns Wednes­day, Sept. 3Where They Left Things: Wait. Zack (Eric Mil­le­gan) was Gormogon’s assis­tant, not Sweets? Really? Huh. That’s kind of sad. And Hod­gins (T.J. Thyne) and Angela (Michaela Con­lin) still aren’t mar­ried because of her miss­ing first hus­band? That got swept under the rug a bit in the strike-shortened sea­son, didn’t it?Where They Pick Up: As much as I love Bones, the show’s shoddy LA-for-DC loca­tion (or “faux-cation”) shoot­ing has often been a draw­back. The Bones/Booth half of the two-hour pre­miere was filmed in Lon­don and, as a result, the sea­son starts with what is prob­a­bly the series’ best-looking episode to date, fea­tur­ing all man­ner of effec­tive loca­tion work. The flirt­ing and jokes about tea and dri­ving on the wrong side of the road fly so fast most view­ers won’t care that Zack is barely men­tioned at all.Since Bones is a character-driven pro­ce­dural more than a seri­al­ized drama, don’t expect the Zack-blowback to be major, but the series will have some fun with his absence, using a revolv­ing cast of interns includ­ing char­ac­ters played by Carla Gallo, Joel David Moore, Michael Badalucco and, in the pre­miere, Eugene Byrd return­ing as Clark. It will be a fine distraction.Meanwhile, view­ers will get much more seri­al­ized sat­is­fac­tion out of the first appear­ance by Angela’s hubby, who brings out an unex­pect­edly jeal­ous side of Hod­gins and putting the show’s most suc­cess­ful con­sum­mated rela­tion­ship under new strain.blog.zap2it.com

ones is back! Well, almost, any­way. The sea­son pre­miere is two weeks away, to be exact, on Sept. 3.To gear up, I recently caught up with Bones’ big bosses Hart Han­son and Barry Joseph­son and got a lit­tle insight into that Booth-Bones hookup you’ve been hop­ing for and some dish on both the London-set sea­son pre­miere and the show’s future exotic for­eign settings…Is your home­town in the running?Click in for the dish on sea­son four and some sneak peeks of Booth and Bones in London!London Call­ing: In case you’ve been won­der­ing what brings our heroes to Eng­land for the two-hour sea­son pre­miere, accord­ing to David Bore­anaz: “Bones is speak­ing to Oxford, and I’m speak­ing to Scot­land Yard. There is an Amer­i­can busi­ness­man liv­ing in Lon­don, and his daugh­ter is murdered?we pull her car out of the Thames?and it becomes a uni­fied effort between Scot­land Yard, the FBI and the foren­sics teams on both ends.“Foreign Affair? Detec­tive work isn’t the only thing on the itin­er­ary, however…there’s a lit­tle flir­ta­tion as well. Emily said: “I am giv­ing a lec­ture at Oxford, and I have been invited here by Dr. Ian Wexler (Andrew Buchan), another foren­sic anthropologist?the top foren­sic anthro­pol­o­gist in Eng­land. He’s kind of like me in Lon­don. The lec­ture is on inter­sti­tial lamel­lae remodeling?one of my favorite sub­jects to speak about?and Booth falls asleep while I’m giv­ing my lec­ture, which I don’t appre­ci­ate.” But don’t worry B&B fans, Booth isn’t falling down on the job. Accord­ing to David Bore­anaz: “Ian Wexler is the foren­sics guy over here, and he’s mov­ing in on her?which is fine, but it’s also going to drive me crazy, obviously.“The Main Attrac­tion: What about the rest of the year? Hart con­firmed to me that Booth and Bones are get­ting hor­i­zon­tal in sea­son four: “We will, in fact, see Booth and Bones together in bed. Naked.” Shut. Up. “Shut up, your­self. They’re naked in bed. You betcha. It may be the sea­son ender, it may not…” Bedly naked­ness? Aaah!Altar-ed States: Also in sea­son four, expect the points of the love tri­an­gle between Angela (Michaela Con­lin), Jack (T.J. Thyne) and Bir­im­bau (Sean Blake­more) to get sharper. Hart said: “Angela’s miss­ing hus­band, Bir­im­bau, shows up dur­ing the sea­son pre­miere, and merry mix-ups ensue. I hope it’s not what any­one expects. I hope peo­ple will expect either that every­thing goes great for every­body or that Bir­im­bau breaks up Jack and Angela, and I don’t mind telling you that nei­ther one of those things happen.“Dearly Departed: If you were wor­ried that Zack (Eric Mil­le­gan) would be for­got­ten by the team or by the show’s pro­duc­ers, you can lay that fear to rest. Accord­ing to Hart, “We are not replac­ing Zack…Eric and I are very good friends. Eric is fine. Zack’s not doing so well, but Eric is fine. He’s booked to be in the first episode we’re shoot­ing in August.” (We’ll be catch­ing up with our poor Zacka­roni at the asy­lum where he cur­rently resides…)Baby Bones: Accord­ing to another exec­u­tive pro­ducer, Barry Joseph­son, “We’re doing a lot with these guest interns,” refer­ring to a series of grad stu­dents who will fil­ter in and out of Brennan’s lab at the Jef­fer­son­ian, doing many of the tasks once assigned to Zack. In fact, said Joseph­son, “Some of the interns are going to be recur­ring, and I think what we’re going to do is look at the fan com­mu­nity and see who peo­ple like and why they like them, and that might impact our deci­sion mak­ing.” Who said reality-show vot­ing is the only form of par­tic­i­pa­tory television?New Peo­ple and Places: * Hart Han­son said of the remain­ing team mem­bers: “We have a girl­friend for Sweets (John Fran­cis Daley). And Cam (Tamara Tay­lor) has a past, and because of that she approaches life a cer­tain way, and we go into a bit more of what she is.” * The sets are also get­ting mixed up a bit this year, said Barry Joseph­son: “I think shows are going to end at dif­fer­ent loca­tions in D.C. this year, rather than always at the diner. We’ll do some loca­tion shoots as well as some spots on the Fox lot.” * All you over­seas Bones fans, good news: You can start mak­ing up those “I Heart D.B.” posters now, because Bones stars may be com­ing to your coun­try some­time soon! Barry Joseph­son told me that after the suc­cess of the first Euro­pean expe­di­tion (the sea­son pre­miere was shot on loca­tion in the U.K.), “We are going to do more inter­na­tional shows. The trip to Eng­land was at the sug­ges­tion of a stu­dio exec­u­tive, but when you see how well we do in other coun­tries, it just makes sense. I’ve recently trav­eled a lot and have seen Bones air­ing in French Poly­ne­sia and New Zealand. And Bones is a foren­sic anthro­pol­o­gist, and she can travel any­where, and she should!“Think Bones should shoot an episode in the place where you live? Tell the pro­duc­ers in the com­ments below why your town is the place to be!The spe­cial two-hour season-four pre­miere of Bones airs on Fox Sept. 3 at 8 p.m.uk.eonline.com

2x02 Mother and Child in the Bay screen captures

2x01 The Titan on the Tracks screen captures

3x02 — Soc­cer Mom in the Mini-Van screen cap­tures 3x05 — Mummy in the Maze screen cap­tures Credit to dj_capslock

1x02 The Man in the S.U.V. screen cap­tures :laughing:

On a Bones panel at the 2008 Inter­na­tional Comic-Con in San Diego last week­end, actor Michaela Con­lin indi­cated there may be a les­bian romance on the hori­zon for her char­ac­ter next sea­son, which kicks off with a spe­cial two-hour episode in early September.“Angela may have a rela­tion­ship this sea­son [with] some­one by the name of Roxy,” Con­lin vol­un­teered to the enthu­si­as­tic crowd.The pop­u­lar Fox crime drama ? cre­ated by Hart Han­son and star­ring Emily Deschanel and David Bore­anaz as a foren­sic anthro­pol­o­gist and FBI agent, respec­tively, who work together to solve crimes ? aver­ages 8 to 9 mil­lion view­ers per episode, and is one of net­work television’s most-watched series.Angela Mon­tene­gro, an artist spe­cial­iz­ing in foren­sic facial recon­struc­tion, is engaged to ento­mol­o­gist Dr. Jack Hod­gins (T.J. Thyne) and serves as Tem­per­ance “Bones” Brennan’s (Deschanel) con­fi­dante and best friend.Angela was revealed to be bisex­ual last sea­son, when a pri­vate inves­ti­ga­tor men­tioned she had received infor­ma­tion about Angela from “a girl named Roxy, whose heart you broke in second-year art school.“But Angela’s bisex­u­al­ity was hinted at as early as the first sea­son, when she teased Bones in “The Man in the Fall­out Shel­ter” that she might kiss her under the mistle­toe at the Christ­mas party “in a fes­tive, non-lesbian man­ner.” Later that sea­son, in “The Man in the Bear,” a FedEx mes­sen­ger whom Hod­gins and Zach were try­ing to impress made it clear she was more inter­ested in Angela than them, to which Angela responded with a laugh, “That is very sweet. Thank you.“During the sec­ond sea­son, the writ­ers care­fully and slowly devel­oped a romance between Angela and Hod­gins, cul­mi­nat­ing in a wed­ding that was called off at the last minute when it was dis­cov­ered that Angela was tech­ni­cally still mar­ried to a man in Fiji who refused to grant her a divorce. In the third sea­son, Angela and Hod­gins hired a pri­vate inves­ti­ga­tor to help her find and divorce him, to no avail. The fourth sea­son picks up with that story line, as Angela’s mys­te­ri­ous hus­band finally makes an appear­ance in the open­ing episode.Because the writ­ers and the audi­ence have become so invested in the rela­tion­ship between Angela and Hod­gins, it seems unlikely that a rekin­dled romance between Angela and Roxy ? if it actu­ally hap­pens ? will be any­thing more than a tem­po­rary obsta­cle for Angela and Hodgins.But the recur­ring theme of Angela’s bisex­u­al­ity is note­wor­thy, espe­cially con­sid­er­ing the scarcity of les­bian or bisex­ual char­ac­ters on TV. Angela is one of only a few on scripted broad­cast tele­vi­sion next sea­son ? the oth­ers are Thir­teen (Olivia Wilde) on House, M.D., and Drs. Cal­lie Tor­res (Sara Ramirez) and Erica Hahn (Brooke Smith) on Grey’s Anatomy. Angela is also the only one who is Asian Amer­i­can (Con­lin is of Chi­nese and Irish descent, and her char­ac­ter is also half-Chinese).Sydney Tamiia Poitier’s FBI agent char­ac­ter on the upcom­ing NBC series Knight Rider was por­trayed as a les­bian or bisex­ual woman in the two-hour TV movie last spring, but the show’s exec­u­tive pro­duc­ers are now dis­tanc­ing them­selves from this and appear to be de-gaying her character.Casting for the char­ac­ter of Roxy and the tim­ing of her appear­ance in the upcom­ing sea­son is not yet known. If his­tory is any guide, it is likely to coin­cide with the sweeps period in Novem­ber. afterellen.com