Bones Bids Adieu
TV Guide Magazine|March 20, 2017

As the Fox drama wraps its 12-season run, we visited the set for an exclusive goodbye

Marisa Roffman
Bones Bids Adieu

FINDING THE PERFECT actress to play Bones forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan—who would go toe-to-toe with David Boreanaz’s FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth—when the Fox series began in 2005 all came down to a mere step forward. Two remaining actresses were up for the role, and in a key audition scene, Boreanaz assertively stepped toward Emily Deschanel. Rather than backing down, she then stepped toward him. “It sounds like a simple thing, but it was her instinct and it was electric,” series creator Hart Hanson recalls.

Twelve seasons and 246 episodes later, the drama—loosely inspired by forensic anthropologist and author Kathy Reichs’s Temperance Brennan novels and a documentary about Reichs’s life—wraps up with a two-part finale airing March 21 and 28. “It seemed totally right to us to offer the incredibly loyal fans of Bones a special final chapter to this story,” says Dana Walden, chairman and CEO of Fox Television Group. “It is a meaningful, celebratory and conclusive season.” (Proof of fan loyalty: They followed the series to eight different time slots during its run.)

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