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First Aired: September 13, 2005 on FOX

Created by: Hart Hanson

Starring: Emily Deschanel as Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan, David Boreanaz as Special Agent Seeley Booth, Michaela Conlin as Angela Montenegro, Eric Millegan as Zack Addy, T.J. Thyne as Dr. Jack Hodgins, and Tamara Taylor as Dr. Camille Saroyan.

Bones TV Show is a drama and is very loosely based on the works of real-life forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, who is herself a producer on the show. Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan is named after the protagonist of Reichs' crime novel series. The show reproduces the success of CSI and is a forensics and police procedural drama in which each episode focuses on an FBI case file discovering the mystery behind the human remains brought to Dr. Brennan's forensic anthropology team.

Reviews of Bones TV Show

USA Today Let other crime shows compete for your attention by growing ever more sick, gory and graphic. Bones is built on a more traditional and solid foundation: the strength of its characters. Robert Bianco

Boston Globe Is "Fingernails" in our future? Or, perhaps, "Nose Hair"? As TV's forensic detectives become evermore specialized, Fox is introducing "Bones," about a Washington, D.C., anthropologist who uses skeletal remains to catch murderers. Painstakingly, she pieces together decomposing tibias and fibulas and patellas, reading them as if they were some kind of cartilaginous I Ching. Matthew Gilbert

Pop Matters For the new Fox series Bones -- very loosely based on Reichs' books -- Tempe has been relocated to Washington D.C.'s fictional (as in, please don't confuse it with the Texas-based charity of the same name) Jeffersonian Institute, and stripped of most of her social skills. Not only that, she has also been turned into a part-time author who writes books about a forensic anthropologist called... wait for it... Kathy Reichs. Roger Holland

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