The potential for a revival of the long-running Fox procedural Bones was addressed by series creator Hart Hanson, who revealed that the possibility has been discussed. “Everybody on ‘Bones’ is in contact with each other,” Hart told Variety. “At separate times, it’s like, ‘What are you doing? What’s the availability?’”
Speaking at a reunion of the Bones creative team on the WGA picket line, Hart continued: “It’s complicated now because Fox broadcast ‘Bones,’ but Disney now bought 20th, so they own [the show]. It would take a million agents and lawyers to figure out who owns what and what platform it would show on. But we do keep talking. And every once in a while, we are all nostalgic enough to think, ‘Maybe we should do it again.’ Who knows? Maybe this will bump-start us.”
As for whether series leads Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz would reprise their respective roles as Temperance Brennan and Seeley Booth, Hart said: “We have heard that they would not not be game, which is a step. The actors are going to say the truth, which is it depends on what it is, the scripts, what it looks like, if it feels right. They’re not going to do something just because it’s us.”
The series, which saw forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance ‘Bones’ Brennan and FBI Agent Seeley Booth solving cases by examining the remains of victims, ran from 2005 to 2017. With 246 episodes, Bones remains Fox’s longest-running scripted drama series of all-time.
