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.

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One of the joys of Angela Montenegro, the character played by Michaela Conlin on the hit crime drama Bones, is that she’s so refreshingly unpredictable. There’s just no telling what Angela, a bohemian artist working in a science lab full of “squints,” will say or do next. She has no inhibitions and knows no boundaries.

“I’m a pretty upfront person in how I live my life,” Conlin says. “But compared to Angela, I’m timid.” Almost anything is possible with her. This season, for example, after breaking off her engagement to Hodgins (played by TJ Thyne), Angela threw everyone in the lab a curve by getting back together with an ex. As in ex-girlfriend.

That was something we didn’t know about her. And now longtime Bones viewers, who have been speculating for years about a romantic future for lead characters Brennan and Booth (Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz), have a second true-love-in-denial relationship to worry about.

“People talk to me about it all the time,” Conlin says. “But to be honest, I don’t know what’s going to happen with the two of them.” New episodes return on Fox beginning at 7 p.m. CT on Thursday, Jan. 15, but don’t expect any immediate answers. That’s not the Bones way. In the meantime, reruns will have to do. The Brennan-and-Booth-in-London two-parter (in which Angela and Hodgins split up) airs at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31, on Fox.

Then TNT serves up an 18-hour New Year’s Day Bones marathon, beginning at 5 a.m.What were your expectations with this show and with your character when you first signed on in 2005? Did you think you’d still be playing Angela today?“We’ve definitely surpassed all of my expectations. It’s our fourth season and we’re doing better now than we did in the first season. That’s pretty great. It’s kind of amazing when you do a series, because it’s like a living thing. It’s improving and moving and flowing and growing and that’s really what the last four years have been like. My expectations were just that I loved the pilot script.

I had been up for a couple of other shows at the same time and I chose to test for just this one. Thankfully, that decision worked out, because you never know what’s going to last. The pilot of the show was actually called ‘Brennan’ and I remember, the night before, I was talking to my mom, and I said, ‘I just love the way the women speak on this show. They’re really intelligent.’”