“Bones” ran for 12 seasons and over 240 episodes on Fox, an accomplishment in procedural broadcast tv that now appears to be an apex looking back. But with a streaming period that has made reboots and revivals extra common than ever, may “Bones” ever come again?
According to the present’s creator, there may be hope.
“We are in contact with each other,” Hart Hanson, who created “Bones,” tells Variety. “Everybody on ‘Bones’ is in contact with each other. At separate times, it’s like, ‘What are you doing? What’s the availability?’”
Speaking to Variety on the “Bones” reunion WGA picket, Hanson spoke concerning the realities of reviving the present, noting the very completely different media panorama right this moment in comparison with when “Bones” aired on Fox from 2005 to 2017.
“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,” Hanson mentioned. “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.”
Executive producer Stephen Nathan stepped into the dialog, chiming in, “It is odd that everybody is still in contact. It was a great group of people.”
“It was a happy place to work,” Hanson added. Hanson and Nathan have been among the many crowd of former writers and producers from “Bones” on the WGA picket outdoors the Fox lot in Los Angeles. They have been joined by the present’s star, Emily Deschanel, who additionally picketed to indicate help for the writers on strike.
“I could see it. I could see it,” Hanson mentioned of a doable revival. “Of course, it all depends on David and Emily. Without both of them, no.”
“Bones” starred David Boreanaz as FBI Agent Booth and Deschanel as Temperance “Bones” Brennan, a forensic anthropologist. The present stays Fox’s longest-running scripted drama sequence of all time.
When requested in the event that they’ve spoken with Boreanaz or Deschanel concerning the chance of a revival, Hanson mentioned that they might be open to the dialog.
“We have heard that they would not not be game, which is a step,” Hanson mentioned. “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.”
With fun, Nathan quipped, “But we don’t have to do it for 12 years again, do we?”
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