We have some promos from Fox of the 100th episode of Bones! The episode is called “The Parts in the Sum of the Whole”, and is a flashback (six years) to Booth and Brennan’s first case together. The captions to the individual images reveal we will see the recruitment of Angela (BSC-approved Michaela Conlin) in the episode as well. It will air on Thursday, April 8th (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT).

Episode Synopsis – The milestone 100th episode takes viewers back in time six years as Brennan and Booth recount to Sweets their first case together. With Sweets finishing his book on their partnership, Brennan and Booth take this opportunity to set the record straight on their initial pairing before his book goes to print. While working on a case six years ago, young and rebellious FBI Agent Seeley Booth seeks the help of Dr. Temperance Brennan and her team of scientists to hopefully find the evidence that will prove his high-profile suspect guilty. Although in unfamiliar territory, Dr. Brennan, her grad student Zack (guest star Eric Millegan) and Dr. Jack Hodgins (TJ Thyne) get right to work, impressing Booth with their knack for uncovering new leads and substantiating his theory about a well-connected district judge. While the case cements a foundation for a successful future partnership, it also reveals the convoluted beginnings of the formidable duo – whose feelings for each other almost ended the partnership before it had even begun.

• 1. What can you tell us about Angela’s role in the much-anticipated 100th episode?

Michaela Conlin: We go back seven years, a year before the pilot. Brennan and Angela had been friends already and we find out about how and why Brennan decides to bring her into the Jeffersonian as an employee. She had been travelling and is trying to get back to Paris, which is sort of why she takes the job.

• 2. Looking back on the first 100 episodes, do you have a favorite?

I really loved the first Christmas episode. I know a lot of people didn’t love it, but shooting that episode, it was the 13 episode of the season of the first year and it was really when we started to congeal as a cast. We all shot everyday, we were locked in the lab, I was in an elf outfit, it was just a blast. It was lovely and the first time I think we realized that we had something very special.

• 3. How surprised are you that five years into its run, the show is more popular than ever?

It really is. I get stopped way more than I ever did in the first and second season. I get stopped all the time which is really awesome. It’s incredible. The show just seems to keep growing and growing and growing, and it’s great to be apart of something like that.

• 4. Realistically, how long do you BONES can go on for? And are you happy to stick with the show as long as it goes.

It doesn’t feel like it’s been five years. Emily and I had just said that five years ago, in February we shot the pilot, which is crazy. I’m happy to do it as long as we all feel like we can keep making great shows and we feel that way so far.

• 5. And finally, if you could put your writer’s cap on for a moment, where would you like to see Angela go over the course of the next say, 100 episodes?

Great question. I’d really like to see for us to see more of her family life with her dad and her mom. And I’d love to see Angela figure out who she loves and if she can be in a serious relationship. I’d love to see the next chapter of her life, where is she going to go…. I have a feeling that it might be a foreign country.

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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.

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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.