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Fans of the Emily Deschanel/David Bore­anaz series, Bones, won’t have to worry about their show being can­celled for awhile. FOX has just given the series a two year renewal.

Bones is cen­tered on an unlikely alliance between an FBI agent (Bore­anaz) and a foren­sics anthro­pol­o­gist (Deschanel) and her team. The rest of the cast includes Michaela Con­lin, T.J. Thyne, Eric Mil­le­gan, Tamara Tay­lor, Michaela Con­lin, John Fran­cis Daley, Patri­cia Belcher, and David Greenman.

Con­sid­er­ing that Bones’ rat­ings are strong, its seemed odd that the show hadn’t been renewed until now. Accord­ing to Vari­ety, the holdup was over a com­mon topic these days, license fees.

To no sur­prise, the FOX net­work and the show’s stu­dio, 20th Cen­tury Fox TV, are owned by the same com­pany. While you might expect that that would make things eas­ier, it actu­ally made for longer nego­ti­a­tions. There are other profit par­tic­i­pants involved so there was extra due dili­gence to make sure a renewal deal reflected the show’s true mar­ket value.

When the nego­ti­a­tions were fin­ished, Bones exec­u­tive pro­ducer Hart Han­son con­firmed the news to fans via his Twit­ter account. He later wrote, “Thank you BONES fans for your response to our pick-up. Thank you so much. We are all so grat­i­fied. We love work­ing on our show. Thanks.”

The show is expected to return in the Fall and FOX will announce its 2009 — 2010 sched­ule on Monday.

I am still updat­ing this web­site so it might be a few days until it is com­plete again, plus includ­ing new screen cap­tures of all TV shows and movies that Michaela has appeared in, it is quite dif­fi­cult to get hold of.

I have added a new cat­e­gory Talk shows and inter­views which I am now cur­rently screen captured.

269 Screen Cap­tures Hol­ly­wood 411 — 8th Oct 2008

Yes, the much-discussed sex scene between Tem­per­ance “Bones” Bren­nan (Emily Deschanel) and See­ley Booth (David Bore­anaz) is going to hap­pen in the Bones season-four finale.

No, it is not a hal­lu­ci­na­tion. And yes, oh yes, it could lead to some­thing even big­ger for the couple.We just chat­ted up Bones bosses Hart Han­son and Stephen Nathan, and as S.N. jokes, “We did some research and found out that sex is very closely related to hav­ing chil­dren. We were shocked ourselves.“So what does the sex mean for our fave two­some, and which beloved char­ac­ter is return­ing for the sea­son finale? Here’s what we know:You long­time fans will be delighted to know that the writer-producers of Bones are tak­ing this step for­ward seri­ously. As Hart says, “I think the audi­ence will be very sat­is­fied with the sex scene, and [the way] that it sets up the next sea­son and the way things unfold between [Bones and Booth].

“Bones Jay Maidment/FOXSo why the change of Hart after years of putting the kibosh on B&B? He tells us, “The fact is, when we started Bones, we knew that we would never have to face the day of reck­on­ing of when to have Booth and Bren­nan con­sum­mate their affair, because no show ever goes that long. And now here we are. We have to pay the piper.

I think it was about six months ago that Stephen and I just qui­etly between the two of us started talk­ing about how we were going to con­tend with that huge, hang­ing sword of Damo­cles issue of their sex life.“And for the record, the baby issue is key to the deci­sion, at least on Brennan’s side. Stephen explains, “It started with the idea of Brennan?who has been so adamant about not want­ing a child for so long?finally real­iz­ing that it might be good for her to have a prog­eny to have some­one as bril­liant as she in the world when she leaves. So she is think­ing about hav­ing a child, and she real­izes that Booth is genet­i­cally an excel­lent match for her.”

(Hell yes he is.)Another hint that this knot of sto­ry­lines leads to a wee B&B Jr.? When asked about future appear­ances by Booth’s beloved son Parker, Hart says, “Yes, we will see Parker. Of course, Booth’s fam­ily life, includ­ing his son, fit into our con­se­quences com­ing up in sea­son five.” (Tell us we’re wrong about this babies thing!)As for the actual sex, they haven’t shot the scene yet, but we have solemn promises that it is not the prod­uct of Booth’s cur­rently fevered imagination.Bones Kwaku Alston/FOXIn other Bones news: * If the script and deal work out, says Hart, “Zack’s (Eric Mil­le­gan) in the sea­son finale.”

* Angela (Michaela Con­lin) and Jack (T.J. Thyne) are still in love limbo. Says Hart, “Our plans don’t include any fast res­o­lu­tions to their relationship.”

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I’ve never been a fan of pro­ce­dural dra­mas like “CSI” or “Law & Order.” But I’m com­pletely hooked on Fox’s “Bones,” which moves next week from Wednes­day night to the network’s prime Thurs­day lineup with a new episode at 8 p.m.

I’d like to say I’m drawn to the show because it’s dif­fer­ent from the typ­i­cal forensics-mystery for­mula thanks to solid char­ac­ter devel­op­ment and a heavy dash of dark humor.

What made me watch “Bones,” how­ever, was a bor­der­line unhealthy crush on lead actor David Boreanaz.I absolutely loved Boreanaz’s moody vam­pire char­ac­ter on “Buffy the Vam­pire Slayer” and its spin­off, “Angel.” I approached “Bones” war­ily, imag­in­ing it impos­si­ble to view the actor as any­one except a rean­i­mated, but gor­geous, corpse. And since it was hard enough watch­ing “Angel” with min­i­mal appear­ances by Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gel­lar), could I adjust to a fully Buffy-less world?Happily, I did. From just the first few min­utes of ever watch­ing “Bones” last year, I learned Bore­anaz is an incred­i­bly ver­sa­tile actor.

All traces of brood­ing Angel dis­solve when he plays FBI agent See­ley Booth. The char­ac­ters are as dif­fer­ent as night and day (no pun intended). Plus, Booth, a sar­cas­tic, sports-loving ex-Army Ranger is funny, lik­able, authen­tic and sur­pris­ingly sen­si­tive. And, like George Clooney, Bore­anaz uncan­nily gets bet­ter look­ing with age. Per­haps he is a forever-young vam­pire after all.The will-they-or-won’t-they chem­istry between Bore­anaz and co-star Emily Deschanel is electric.

Deschanel plays Dr. Tem­per­ance Bren­nan, or “Bones” as Bore­anaz calls her. Bren­nan is a genius foren­sic anthro­pol­o­gist who works at a Smithsonian-esque “Jef­fer­son­ian Insti­tute” in Wash­ing­ton, D.C. The socially clue­less Bren­nan becomes part­ners with the self-assured every­man Booth when the FBI needs help iden­ti­fy­ing human remains that are too dif­fi­cult for stan­dard investigators.Most episodes fea­ture self-contained plots, but there are season-long story arcs.

To appre­ci­ate the char­ac­ters’ quirks, it’s best to watch them in order. Each show opens with dis­cov­ered skele­tal bits Bren­nan and Booth, along with the lab coats at the Jef­fer­son­ian, work to find the perpetrator.While the who-dun-it aspects are often com­pelling ? and thank­fully, not always overly gory if you find decom­posed body parts more palat­able than blood and guts ? the best thing is the back-and-forth between Bren­nan and Booth. A crime-mystery writer on the side, Bren­nan is impos­si­bly lonely and has trou­ble main­tain­ing rela­tion­ships due to her blunt, lit­eral nature. (The series is very loosely based on the novel series by real-life foren­sic anthro­pol­o­gist Kathy Reichs, who is a producer.)

Bren­nan is uncon­ven­tion­ally beau­ti­ful with a square face, pale blue eyes and habit of dress­ing mod­estly. Her book­ish ways are so pro­nounced it’s under­stand­able why most men find her intim­i­dat­ing. Though she and Booth are both ambi­tious and com­pet­i­tive, he is the kind of guy who, when in dan­ger, shoots first and asks ques­tions later.Booth has lit­tle time for the tech­ni­cal jar­gon Bren­nan and col­leagues toss about and lit­tle stom­ach for the dissections.

The rela­tion­ship between the dis­parate char­ac­ters is volatile at first, but over time, works as they bond ? and develop a solid track record of crack­ing crimes. It’s the age-old opposites-attract ten­sion that brings Sam and Diane from “Cheers” to mind. So far, it works because the char­ac­ters are so com­pli­cated and roman­ti­cally dys­func­tional, they have yet to get together. I’m root­ing for a rela­tion­ship, but worry it could ruin the dynamic.“Bones” pre­miered in 2005 and is now in its fourth season.

The rest of the char­ac­ters from the Jef­fer­son­ian are fine, but I could take or leave Hod­gins (T.J. Thyne) and Angela (Michaela Con­lin). I do get a huge kick out of a newer addi­tion, Dr. Lance Sweets (John Fran­cis Daley), a Doo­gie Howser-ish psy­chol­o­gist who pro­vides part­ners ther­apy to Booth and Bren­nan after some­thing bad hap­pens in the field.Their shared skep­ti­cism and ini­tial dis­dain for psy­cho­analy­sis cre­ates an affin­ity between Bren­nan and Booth, the lat­ter of whom dis­misses Sweets’ field as “Jedi mind tricks.” Sweets’ role as a comic foil ? and as an oppor­tu­nity for interruption-free scenes with our lead char­ac­ters ? is always a wel­come digres­sion from the skulls and dis­mem­bered limbs.Sometimes the plots are highly unbe­liev­able, but Bren­nan and Booth’s dia­logues and parts are so smartly writ­ten, it’s worth giv­ing a shot if you haven’t already.

After tak­ing nearly a month off for post-season base­ball, Bones returns to FOX on Wednes­day (Nov. 5) with a new episode titled “The Skull in the Sculp­ture.” Series cre­ator and exec­u­tive pro­ducer Hart Han­son got on the phone with a cadre of reporters to talk about what’s com­ing up for the show.One thing view­ers can expect is a con­tin­u­a­tion of the Zack-of-the-Week at the Jef­fer­son­ian. Since Eric Millegan’s Zack checked out at the end of last sea­son, Bones’ team has been fleshed out with a vari­ety of aspir­ing Zacks, allow­ing for mem­o­rable guest appear­ances by actors includ­ing Carla Gallo, Joel David Moore, Michael Badalucco and Eugene Byrd.“It has been really fun for us, notwith­stand­ing everybody’s deep affec­tion for Eric Mil­le­gan and Zack,” Han­son says. “What it has done for us is we’ve been able to invent a series of char­ac­ters that make more stuff hap­pen at the lab. It kind of gives B-stories to the B-story, to get some char­ac­ter and humor out of the lab. We found this group of peo­ple; we found actors that have just been delight­ful. It’s been amaz­ing for me how good these peo­ple have been at com­ing in and inte­grat­ing and being on kind of a revolv­ing door.

Ini­tially, I thought, ‘Oh, we’ll look at four to six peo­ple and then pick some­one who is great and have them come in.’ We have a cou­ple of more ideas now that we’d like to pur­sue with these grad stu­dents. It’s no longer a case, at least in my mind, of find­ing some­one to replace ‘Zack,’ but… fig­ur­ing out how long we can do this and how long it serves the show.“Hanson acknowl­edges, though, that the Zack-of-the-Week runs the dan­ger of becom­ing tired, like with Mur­phy Brown and her revolv­ing door of secretaries.“Murphy Brown did it every sin­gle week and it was kind of a gag that they pur­sued. We’re actu­ally not inter­ested in hav­ing an infi­nite num­ber,” he says. “For exam­ple, a cou­ple of times, some very inter­est­ing cast­ing ideas have come to me as to whom we might have come in as an intern and no char­ac­ter sug­gests itself. They each have to be dif­fer­ent. It just can’t be some­one with a quirk each week.

I think that would become very tiresome.“Byrd’s Clark is set to return dur­ing Novem­ber sweeps and Han­son says he’d love to bring Badalucco’s char­ac­ter back. But that doesn’t mean that we’ve seen the last of Mil­le­gan and Zack.“We’re not done with Zack,” Han­son promises. “Zack is a fun char­ac­ter. We left a big hang­ing chad with Sweets, that Sweets knows that Zack didn’t do what he is thought to have done. He has a prob­lem, an eth­i­cal prob­lem on how to deal with that and we will deal with that. That’s an ideal episode in which to have Mil­le­gan come back again; Eric Mil­le­gan come back and play Zack again.

I think it’s okay for me to say that I’m look­ing into Stephen Fry’s avail­abil­ity because I think he would be the ideal per­son to help Sweets fig­ure out how to deal with that. But, Zack is still in our minds. His name is hang­ing up there on the boards in the writer’s room as to what cases he would be use­ful in, that he could organ­i­cally fit into.“Amidst the return­ing faces, upcom­ing episodes will also offer some new actors, includ­ing Bren­dan Fehr in a one-episode stint as Jared Booth, brother of David Boreanaz’s char­ac­ter. Also stir­ring up trou­ble will be Nic­hole Hiltz as Roxie, who shares a roman­tic past with Michaela Conlin’s Angela.

“It was like you get to watch Michaela kiss another really beau­ti­ful woman. That’s not the worse thing in the world. But, I don’t think that’s why we did it. You want to jolt a series every once in a while and remind peo­ple that any­thing can happen.“Hanson notes that the wild-child part of Angela’s char­ac­ter, cen­tral to so much of her early devel­op­ment, has been a bit neglected in recent seasons.“It worked quite well,” Han­son says.

“The actress who was play­ing her ex-girlfriend, per­haps girl­friend again is Nic­hole Hiltz and she’s very funny and very warm. Also, if we do this right, and you’ll let us know, it’s not played very pruri­ent. It’s pretty mat­ter of fact. This is who she is. This is who she was for a while and who she could be again.With Bones, sched­ul­ing is always the big unspo­ken ques­tion. FOX has rou­tinely threat­ened to move the show to the waste­land of Fri­day nights, which would be both a sign of respect for the show’s reli­able audi­ence, but also a poten­tial kiss-of-death. FOX has, once again, ten­ta­tively slated new episodes of Bones for Fri­days start­ing in January.So I asked Han­son where, if he had to guess, he fig­ured Bones would be air­ing in the new year.“I will tell you I have no idea. I don’t know what their plans are,” He says. “I know any­thing is pos­si­ble. I think not Fri­day. I’m pretty con­fi­dent we won’t be on Fri­day, but I don’t know what they’re going to do with Idol. I don’t know what they’re going to do with Doll­house. Your guess is as good as mine. For a while, I thought Mon­days; they’d put us on Mondays.

For a while I thought, ‘Oh, my God, maybe they’ll,’ which I would love, ‘pair us with House on one of the nights that Idol isn’t on.’ But, I don’t even know, I don’t think any­one does — well, they do at the net­work — when Idol is com­ing on. That, of course, will change everything.

The reveal doesn’t come entirely out of left field ? it had been estab­lished that Angela likes her men and her women ? but still, expect some mur­mur­ing tonight on Bones (8 pm/ET, Fox), when a beau­ti­ful blast from the foren­sic femme’s past resur­faces. Michaela Con­lin shares a peek at whether Angela’s old flame might heat up a rec­on­cil­i­a­tion for her and Hodgins.TVGuide.com:

So… Angela has a girlfriend.

Michaela Con­lin: For now, yes. [Laughs] Who knows how long it will last. It’s some­body she dated in col­lege, they had a rela­tion­ship. And now she’s back for a bit.

TVGuide.com: How hot-and-heavy were Angela and Roxy, back in the day?

Con­lin: I’m sure it prob­a­bly was like any rela­tion­ship ? I don’t think they were exclu­sive. It was what it was. But they were together for a lit­tle while.

TVGuide.com: You cer­tainly could do worse than Nic­hole Hiltz, that’s for sure.

Con­lin: I know, she’s so lovely. A lovely person.

TVGuide.com: What impli­ca­tions might Roxy sur­fac­ing have on the Angela-Hodgins relationship?

Con­lin: Any­time any­body shows up from somebody’s past, it’s affect­ing for both peo­ple. But the thing I really like about it is it shows us who Angela was before she even got to this place and this job and into that rela­tion­ship with him. I think it’s impor­tant for them in the long run, if they are to come back together even­tu­ally, to see that other part of her. I hon­estly don’t know what’s going to hap­pen between Angela and Hodgins.

TVGuide.com: It’s prob­a­bly excit­ing for you as an actress to explore Angela’s back story.

Con­lin: Oh yeah. Angela doesn’t com­ment on the fact that it was a woman. She just hap­pened to be attracted to a woman. That’s who she wanted to be back then. That’s how she approaches everything.

TVGuide.com: The Angela-Hodgins fans were thrown ear­lier this sea­son by their sud­den break-up, using words such as “ran­dom,” “rushed” and “not befit­ting the char­ac­ters” to describe it. What’s your take on what went down?

Con­lin: Yeah, that’s what I’ve heard peo­ple have been say­ing. I think the strike was def­i­nitely dif­fi­cult on all the story lines that had been up in the air, so that was part of it. I think they rushed to the altar in the begin­ning any­way. We could have seen more of how the two of them were together.

TVGuide.com: So you’re say­ing the break-up wasn’t the rushed part, it was the build-up of the relationship?

Con­lin: Yes. Per­son­ally, I would have liked to see more of them mak­ing it as a cou­ple. We may still see it, I don’t know. That’s more of a guess. But I really didn’t feel the break-up was rushed.

TVGuide.com: I’m curi­ous, what will be Angela’s take on Booth’s brother, Jared (played by Bren­dan Fehr start­ing Nov. 12)?

Con­lin: She likes him. [Laughs] Angela pretty much likes any being that’s in any man­ner sex­ual. Look, it’s like hav­ing Booth with­out hav­ing Booth. Angela would like to see Bren­nan and Booth get together, so I’m sure she fig­ures, “Hey, this is the second-best thing.” But yeah, Angela is def­i­nitely is a lit­tle bowled over when she meets him.

TVGuide.com: Now that Angela’s open­ness to women has been estab­lished, maybe Thir­teen from House could crossover for a lit­tle romance?

Con­lin: [Laughs] I would love that! [Olivia Wilde] is fan­tas­tic. I just watched that episode where she brings some­one home, and she was great. I love the way they’re approach­ing that, like it’s not a big deal.

TVGuide.com: Give us one last tease about what’s ahead for Angela.

Con­lin: You’re going to see her in a lot of dif­fer­ent cir­cum­stances this sea­son, being sin­gle, I’ll just say that. Being on the open mar­ket… it’s going to be an inter­est­ing year for her!

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.