Bones

American crime comedy-drama television series (2005-2017)

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"Bones" is an American television series that aired from 2005 to 2017, combining crime investigation with comedy and drama elements. The show follows an FBI agent and a forensic anthropologist as they work together to solve murders, making it a popular entry in the crime procedural genre during the 2000s and 2010s.

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★ 8.2

Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.

Aired: 2005–2017
Seasons: 12 · 246 episodes
Status: Ended
Created by: Hart Hanson
Network: FOX
Genres: Crime, Drama

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Genre: Police procedural , Drama
Created by: Hart Hanson
Inspired by: The life of forensic anthropologist and author Kathy Reichs
Showrunners: Hart Hanson Stephan Nathan Michael Peterson Jonathan Collier

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Bones is an American police procedural drama television series created by Hart Hanson for Fox. It premiered on September 13, 2005, and concluded on March 28, 2017, airing for 246 episodes over 12 seasons. The show is based on forensic anthropology and forensic archaeology, with each episode focusing on a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) case file concerning the mystery behind human remains brought by FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) to Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel), a forensic anthropologist. It also explores the personal lives of the characters. The rest of the main cast includes Michaela Conlin, T. J. Thyne, Eric Millegan, Jonathan Adams, Tamara Taylor, John Francis Daley, and John Boyd.

The series is based on the life and novels of forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, who also produced the show. Its title character, Temperance Brennan, is named after the protagonist of Reichs' crime novel series. In the Bones universe, Brennan writes successful mystery novels featuring a fictional forensic anthropologist named Kathy Reichs.