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Few people likely remember Joseph Brooks' 1977 musical drama "You Light Up My Life." The film stars Didi Conn (who played Frenchy in the Olivia Newton-John classic "Grease") as Laurie Robinson, a children's show host and commercial performer who dreams of a singing career. She is engaged to be married to Ken (Stephen Nathan), but has a one-night fling with a random film director named Christopher Nolan. Weeks later, when Laurie goes to an audition, she finds Nolan might be her director. Awkward. She sings her latest opus, a little ditty called "You Light Up My Life," and everyone loves it. (The film's writer/director Brooks also penned the song.)

The rest of the movie is a turgid melodrama about Laurie's ambitions, her relationship with her father (a comedian whom she performs on TV kids shows with), her growing ambivalence toward her fiancé, and her new potential romance with Nolan. The movie is,...

During its run "Bones" was beloved by fans for its off-kilter mix of humor, crime, and horror. Typically, leads Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz would engage in some witty banter immediately before the show unleashed some sort of upsettingly realistic cadaver, which made "Bones" a truly unique experience. The show's graphic corpses were the work of fake body specialists and brothers Kevin and Chris Yagher, who provided bodies, body parts, and all manner of viscera across 12 seasons of "Bones," and at times, they simply went too far.

There was the fresh body on "Bones" that grossed out producer Stephen Nathan, who removed a shot of a detached skull and spine from the season 7 episode "The Crack in the Code," for being "too horrible." Evidently, this particular body was a tad too fresh to be showcased extensively, and if you're not all that familiar with "Bones," that should tell you a lot about the show.

Temperance "Bones" Brennan is easily Emily Deschanel's biggest and most well-known role. The Fox procedural became a popular Thursday night hit for the network, running for an impressive 12 seasons, which kept Dr. Brennan and her partner Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) in the public consciousness for more than a decade. But "Bones" provided Deschanel with more than a high-profile starring role. By the time the show wrapped up in 2017, the actor had become a producer on the show and also made her directing debut, helming a particularly important episode in the series' history.

It took a full 11 seasons before Deschanel would get her chance to direct, but when she did finally step into the role, she oversaw the return of a beloved character in the form of Eric Millegan's Zack Addy, who left "Bones" after the third season. That season ended with the Addy being sent to a...

With a full 12 seasons, "Bones" had plenty of time to amass a large and passionate fanbase, and ever since the show went off the air in 2017, that fan base has been clamoring for more. The Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz-led procedural built a following with it's off-kilter tone, mixing a lighthearted sensibility with some of the most horrific crime scenes you're ever likely to see on a network show (one fresh body on "Bones" even went too far for producer Stephen Nathan). For some fans, the loss of this offbeat crime series was too much to take, and talk of a reboot or revival has been ongoing ever since 2017.

In that time, we've had some positive and encouraging developments, suggesting that fans might just get what they want. When, how, and with which former actors involved remains unclear, but a "Bones" season 13 certainly seems likely based solely on the...

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"Bones" may have been off the air for several years, but that doesn't mean its fans are any less loyal. In no small part thanks to constant reruns on cable and viewers discovering the show on streaming, it remains wildly popular. The series largely focuses on Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz), who work together to solve murders. "Bones" aired on Fox and was mostly filmed in Los Angeles, even though it technically takes place in Washington D.C.

Ultimately, "Bones" ran for a whopping 12 seasons, concluding its run in 2017. So, when the "Bones" season 10 finale aired, viewers still had two full seasons worth of adventures left with Brennan and Booth. However, at the time, the creators of the show had to treat the season 10 finale as though it might be the series finale.

"Bones" was never a show that held back when it came to depicting bodies in various states of decay. This was a series that somehow managed to balance a lighthearted banter between its two series leads, FBI agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanez) and forensic anthropologist Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel), with some of the most horrific cadavers you ever saw on network TV.

There were bodies that upset actors, such as the time Eric Millegan got grossed out, and even a dead body that was so gruesome it went too far for one "Bones" producer in particular. In other words, this was a show that did not feel the need to censor its depiction of death. But that doesn't mean the writers weren't compelled to take a more modest approach to other aspects of the crime procedural.

Take that relationship between Bones and Booth, for example. It took the writers...

Seal Team season 7 features a stealth Bones reunion, with the new actor reacting to reuniting with star David Boreanaz. Seal Team season 7, the show's last, is unfolding via weekly releases on Paramount+. The release schedule has given audiences a chance to take in the action drama's twists and turns as it approaches the finish line. That includes bringing Boreanaz together with an actor that he once directed.

In an interview with TV Insider, Beau Knapp reacted to joining Seal Team season 7 and reuniting with Boreanaz, who executive produces the show and plays the lead role of Jason Hayes. Knapp plays Drew Franklin, the newest member of the Bravo team, and he speaks candidly about what it was like to work with Boreanaz again after the Buffy alum directed Knapp in the Bones season 8 finale. Read his full quote below:

It was a trip. It was 2013. Those are wild times. Like...

John Francis Daley may not be a household name per se, but he and his writing/directing partner Jonathan Goldstein have cultivated a small fandom who get excited by just seeing their credits in a trailer or poster. They co-wrote "Horrible Bosses" and the fantastic "Spider-Man: Homecoming," directed one of the best comedies of the past decade in "Game Night," and recently helmed the fantastically underrated fantasy adventure "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves." As an actor, he's also been a part of two beloved and hugely popular TV shows, as Sam on "Freaks and Geeks" and in his role as the nerdy and youthful criminal profiler Dr. Lance Sweets on "Bones."

Sweets was a key member of the "Bones" family for 138 of the 246 episodes of the series, even as Daley kickstarted his screenwriting career. Once Daley and Goldstein also made the jump to directing with the 2015 remake of "Vacation,...

"Bones" is arguably one of the most successful network TV shows of the 2000s. In terms of sheer numbers, it's hard to argue against. It ran for a truly impressive 12 seasons on Fox, churning out a whopping 246 episodes. That's downright unthinkable in the streaming world we now live in, unless we're talking about reality TV. Each one of those episodes has a catchy title, such as the season 2 episode "Aliens in a Spaceship," which remains a fan-favorite. But the titles weren't crafted solely to be catchy or suggestive of the plot. It turns out, they were meant to help keep things straight for the writers.

In "Bones: The Official Companion," executive producers Hart Hanson and Stephen Nathan discussed the episode titles, with "Spaceman in a Crater" cited as an example. The book explains that, first and foremost, each "Bones" episode title refers to both the victim and the state in which the body was found.

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Thanks to the lightning-quick rise of the internet around the tail-end of the 20th century, the entertainment industry suddenly had a shiny new tool at its disposal to promote its products. And while the eventual rise of Facebook and Twitter would send social media marketing into overdrive, Hart Hanson's "Bones" proved to be exceptionally savvy at navigating the wild, wild west that is the information superhighway in the years that came both before and after that. In fact, as early as its second season, Hanson's gooey-gross procedural rom-com had already started using the ancient relic known as MySpace to make its viewers feel like they themselves were playing an active role in the show's weekly murder investigations. Such was the case with season 2, episode 20, "The Glowing Bones in the Old Stone House." 

On the surface, "Glowing Bones" had...

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Premiering on September 13, 2005, and ending just short of 12 years later on March 28, 2017, "Bones" straddled the line between the post-9/11 media of the 2000s and Obama-era pop culture. You can see that in the show's politics, which, like a lot of network TV, skewed centrist for much of its run. 

This is also reflected in the series' characters. David Boreanaz's FBI Agent Seeley Booth is a military man, but he doesn't that responsibility lightly. His beliefs put him at loggerheads with T.J. Thyne's sarcastic entomologist Jack Hodgins, who started out as a caricature of far-left types, spouting wild conspiracy theories fueled by his distrust of the government. Emily Deschanel's anthropologist Temperance "Bones" Brennan, ever the rationalist, was the buffer between them and was only ever interested in the facts of their murder investigations, not assumptions or gut feelings.

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The 1999 summer movie season was one for the history books. It saw the release of the first "Star Wars" film in well over a decade, "Austin Powers" went from VHS success to bonafide blockbuster, and an unknown director named M. Night Shyamalan came out of nowhere to deliver the second-highest grossing title of the year. "The Sixth Sense" would've been that year's definitive work of horror, too, had it not been for "The Blair Witch Project." Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez's shoestring-budgeted phenomenon, which premiered just a few weeks before young Haley Joel Osment saw dead people, was inescapable. Heather Donahue's terrified, teary-eyed confession to her camera in the film instantly became a widely-recognized piece of iconography alongside the movie's maddening final shot, both of which would soon be referenced and parodied in virtually equal measure.

By the...

"Bones" episode titles all sound like perverse "Nancy Drew" novels. Instead of "The Clue in the Diary" or "The Message in the Hollow Oak," you get "The Headless Witch in the Woods" and "The Passenger in the Oven." But then, "Bones" is loosely based on Kathy Reichs' crime novels, and features a protagonist who aside from being a forensic anthropologist also writes mystery books. In that sense, the slightly macabre mystery novel episode titles fit nicely with the show's overall tone.

What's more, much like Nancy Drew (at least in her later novels), Emily Deschanel's Temperance "Bones" Brennan isn't afraid to travel in service of her investigations into witches in the woods or passengers in ovens. In fact, in the latter case she and FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) actually found themselves solving one such mystery en-route to China. In other episodes the pair have left their Washington D.

"Bones" had an impressive run. The procedural crime dramedy comprises 246 episodes, making for a total of 12 seasons. Of course, a show that goes on for as long as that was going to encounter some issues at along the way. Over its decade-plus run, there were all manner of problems that cropped up on "Bones," from the fresh body that went too far for producer Stephen Nathan to the storyline that star David Boreanez thought was just "bad television."

Usually, the show managed to overcome its issues, often in ingenious fashion. For instance, there was one point at which "Bones" borrowed a set from a short-lived Kelsey Grammer sitcom in order to shoot several scenes and ensure the set didn't go to waste. Or how about the time the showrunners cleverly covered up star Emily Deschanel's injury using an eyepatch and a circus-focused storyline.

But often, the show would stoke...

Serialized storylines are, naturally, tricky for shows that are, by design, inherently episodic. When "House" devoted a large chunk of its third season to the relentless Detective Michael Tritter (David Morse) trying to get back at Hugh Laurie's misanthropic diagnostician for humiliating him, the series' writers were banking on viewers not losing interest before the pair's conflict had concluded. As one of those viewers, let me tell you: It's a good thing they didn't push their luck any further than they did, even if pitting House against a cop was about as effective a way as any to get us to overlook the former's many, many blatantly unethical indiscretions and root for him to outwit this wannabe Moriarty to his Sherlock.

"Bones," like "House," was primarily episodic, with its namesake, Dr. Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel), and her other half, FBI agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz), typically wrapping up a...

The post-event TV lead-out is a delicate thing. Whenever major television telecasts – like, say, the Super Bowl, the Olympics, or the premiere or finale of a super-high-rated reality show – end, something has to come on afterward, and most shows chosen for the coveted slot take the responsibility very seriously. Lead-out programming usually catches hundreds of thousands if not millions of extra eyes since watch parties all over the country get caught up chatting or celebrating and fail to change the channel. Or, better yet, they get hooked on the first few minutes of whatever show's in front of them.

This is how people who weren't even "Grey's Anatomy" fans saw Meredith Grey stick her hand on a bomb in a body cavity, how "New Girl" scored a Prince guest appearance, and how "Stress Relief" was the first episode of "The Office" I ever saw (all three of these episodes aired...

Watch just about any media from the mid-20th century and you'll quickly notice something: people smoked a lot more onscreen back then -- like, a lot more. Those born in the current century would no doubt be shocked to learn that even beloved cartoon icons like Donald Duck would light up a pipe or puff away on a stogie when the occasion merited (and that's to say nothing of commercials like the jaw-dropping marketing campaign where Fred Flinstone gets his buddy Barney and his wife Wilma hooked on Winston cigarettes).

Smoking was a useful visual shorthand for a variety of things. When Cruella De Vil spewed a wreath of putrid yellow smoke from her infamous cigarette holder in Disney's animated "101 Dalmatians," you just knew she was trouble, even before dog-napping entered the equation. Alternatively, when Cary Grant carefully lit Eva Marie Saint's cigarette in perhaps the ultimate Alfred Hitchcock picture,...

The thing with playing a fictional character is that certain things from one's real life are going to impact that character. This came into play for Emily Deschanel during her long run as Temperance Brennan on "Bones." During the show's seventh season, Deschanel was pregnant, which impacted the production. Part of that was solved by her character also being pregnant, even though half of the season's planned episodes still had to be scrapped. But other problems were solved simply by Deschanel being unwilling to surrender parts of her job, including stunts.

Executive producers Hart Hanson and Stephen Nathan discussed "Bones" season 7 ahead of its premiere back in 2011 with TV Tango. The duo explained that they hired a stunt double for the actor, figuring somewhat reasonably that she would need it given that she was toward the end of her pregnancy. But as Nathan revealed, even though she was literally days away from giving birth,...

Somewhere, as "Euphoria" struggles to reassemble its cast of former no-names-turned-movie-stars for season 3, the team behind "Bones" is wistfully inquiring, "First time?" Hart Hanson's nearly-unstoppable procedural dramedy not only transformed Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz into household names over its 12 seasons, but it also took many of its supporting players to the next level. The only downside was, this meant it was sometimes necessary for the show's creatives to kill off a fan-favorite member of the Jeffersonian's staff once the actors behind them had filled up their workload with outside projects.

Most infamously, "Bones" took Booth's honorary little brother Lance Sweets out back behind the shed after John Francis Daley's directing career made it impossible for him to continue playing the cherished FBI psychologist on a regular basis. It wasn't fun for anyone (least of all Daley), although he was far from the only cast member whose character got Old Yeller-ed.

When David Boreanaz read for FBI agent Seeley Booth in the "Bones" pilot, he instantly thought of "Harry and the Hendersons." It's not hard to see why. The character's relationship with his then newfound partner, the forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel), readily evokes that between the open-hearted Bigfoot Harry and John Lithgow's uptight, disapproving patriarch George Henderson Jr. in William Dear's Oscar-winning 1987 fantasy comedy film. Much like Harry and George, however, Bones gradually opens up to Booth in spite of his shenanigans and even bids him a teary farewell when he rejoins his fellow federal investigators living in the wilderness.

Alright, alright, fine, Boreanaz actually thought of "Romancing the Stone." Even in the pilot, long before they became a romantic item, Booth and Bones' repartee recalled Robert Zemeckis' 1984 hit action-rom-com, itself a throwback to Golden Age Hollywood screwball comedy and action-adventure classics like "It Happened One Night" and "The African Queen,...

A crime procedural called "Bones" was always going to involve some pretty grisly scenes. While the hit Fox series often kept things light, that didn't mean it held back when it came to depicting some truly gruesome and upsetting crime scenes. As John Francis Daley, who played Sweets, put it in a 2012 interview:

"Every episode there's something that makes me want to gag. But that's, I think, part of what makes the show successful is there's a morbid curiosity that everyone has, and to be able to combine horrific deaths and body parts with humor and light subjects is brilliant."

Throughout its 12-season run, "Bones" presented some surprisingly graphic scenes, particularly when it came to the dead bodies. One body, in particular, had Eric Millegan, who played Zack Addy, extra grossed out, while another gross bathtub scene had to be cut completely. Much of this was down to brothers Kevin and Chris Yagher,...

Cancer subplots are an extremely tough needle to thread on television. When you're dealing with a disease that causes millions of new cases each year, the line between handling the subject sensitively and crossing the line into exploitation is thinner and blurrier than it might be with other topics. "Bones" may have done a poor job handling cannibalistic serial killers with its Gormogon arc -- a storyline that even Booth himself, David Boreanaz, has admitted was "bad television" -- but for the vast majority of people watching at home, cannibalistic serial killers, unlike cancer, aren't something they'll ever have to worry about in their real lives.

This was absolutely on creator Hart Hanson and his writing staff's minds when they decided to tackle The Big C. "Bones," unlike a lot of other crime procedurals, was equally invested in the home lives of the Jeffersonian Institute's employees as when they were...

John Francis Daley and his writing/directing partner Jonathan Goldstein are not exactly what you might call household names just yet, although they've assuredly achieved "Oh neato, it's those two!" status. With writing credits on "Horrible Bosses" and "Spider-Man: Homecoming," plus their efforts as directors on "Game Night" and "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves," Daley and Goldstein have cemented themselves as aficionados at merging cheeky humor with well-crafted action and wholehearted drama -- so much so that it's easy to forget Daley had a full-blooded acting career before he turned to filmmaking.

Fans of Paul Feig's "Freaks and Geeks" will recall that Daley played series lead Sam Weir on the cult classic teen dramedy series, kicking off his run as a television actor in the process. He would go on to have recurring roles on "The Geena Davis Show" and "Kitchen Confidential" before signing up to play Lance Sweets,...

It may be funnier and more spiritual than "NCIS," but "Bones" is a police procedural at the end of the day — and procedural television implies a formula. With "Bones," that formula centered around a team of investigators led by forensic antropologist Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and FBI agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz), who solve murder cases by finding clues in human remains. That said, the show was willing to experiment within the confines of this procedure — when a show runs for 12 seasons, it has to. For the 200th episode, "The 200th in the 10th," "Bones" threw its characters into a 1950s-set homage to Alfred Hitchcock films.

The show broke the formula even earlier for its 150th episode — "The Ghost in the Machine." In this episode, the team finds the skeleton of teenage boy Colin Gibson (Cameron DeFaria), which has been decomposing for two years, and solves his murder.

You probably know the premise of "Bones." Set in Washington DC, forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and FBI agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) solve murders by studying the mortal remains of the victims. Or do they?

For the show's 200th episode, "The 200th in the 10th", the team decided to do something totally different (and non-canon). In this episode, the show moves to 1950s Los Angeles, where Brennan is an LAPD detective pursuing Booth, a jewel thief. At his latest robbery, Booth finds a burnt skeleton while safecracking and is immediately labeled as suspect No. 1 of the murder. Brennan, knowing it's not Booth's Mo, recruits her quarry to solve this new case together. Hey, after 10 seasons, a show has earned the right to swing for the fences!

"The 200th in the 10th" is made in the style of Old Hollywood thrillers, especially Alfred Hitchcock's 1950s technicolor noir films.

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In the second-season "Bones" episode "The Truth in the Lye," Bones and Booth (Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz) examine a dead body that ... well, it isn't really a body anymore. Arriving at a construction site, they find a bathtub full of squishy human remains, half-melted in a soup of chemicals. Although "Bones" was a network TV series, the camera lingers on the human soup for a few disgusting moments so audiences can see the skin, blood, and organs in their viscous state. Booth is completely grossed out, while Bones, in her usual idiom, calmly begins reciting forensic details into her tape recorder.

It will eventually be revealed that the soup man was once a cad who was living a double life, splitting time between two families that didn't (at least until recently) know about each other. He was melted with a combination of household chemicals.

Bryan Fuller's "Hannibal" is a series about serial killers who, much like the titular cannibal famously featured in "The Silence of the Lambs," approach their grisly crimes as a sick, twisted form of personal creative expression. One killer, for example, arranges their victims into a totem pole on a beach, while another turns a person into a human cello. You would think the show's gorgeously grotesque crime scenes would be the thing that got it into trouble with censors ... but you'd be wrong.

The show's fifth episode, "Coquilles," features what might be the most head-scratching example of censorship in a series full of them. As the episode begins, a couple is discovered murdered in a motel room. Their corpses have been beheaded and positioned so that they appear to be kneeling in prayer in front of a bed, the skin on their backs having been torn away to form...

The number 447 in Bones had a significant meaning for Agent Booth and Dr. Brennan, appearing in various seasons and episodes as a mysterious and recurring element. The 447 mystery served as an Easter egg for fans to spot and speculate about, hinting at hidden details in the characters and their intertwined destinies. While the meaning behind 447 didn't fully deliver, it added a fun element for fans to engage with, but ultimately didn't have a significant impact on the overall story or character development.

447 was a mysterious number that showed up in multiple seasons of Bones, and it turned out to have a significant meaning for Agent Booth (David Boreanaz) and Dr. Brennan (Emily Deschanel) as they worked together to solve crimes. The enigmatic integer first appeared in season 4, episode 1 "The End in the Beginning" when Booth's alarm clock read 4:47 in a dream sequence where Brennan was climbing into bed with him.

Could Bones be the next TV series to get a revival? That's a fair question, given how so many other popular TV shows from years past have been getting reboots and revivals. Bones was a very successful show, spanning for 12 seasons on Fox from 2005 to 2017. Six years later, some fans may be wondering what the characters from Bones are up to these days, so to find out an answer, Variety directly asked series creator Hart Hanson about the possibility.

"We are in contact with each other," Hanson says, teasing that it's possible considering how well the Bones team stays in touch. "Everybody on Bones is in contact with each other. At separate times, it’s like, ‘What are you doing? What’s the availability?’”

That sounds a bit promising, but Hanson also warns that reviving Bones isn't quite as simple as just getting everyone's schedules lined up. The rights to...

“Bones” ran for 12 seasons and over 240 episodes on Fox, an accomplishment in procedural broadcast television that now seems to be an apex in retrospect. But with a streaming era that has made reboots and revivals more popular than ever, could “Bones” ever come back?

According to the show’s creator, there is 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 at the “Bones” reunion WGA picket, Hanson spoke about the realities of reviving the show, noting the very different media landscape today compared to 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...

Renowned alumni of the Jeffersonian Institute pulled out their security badges and patches to assemble Friday morning for a lively “Bones” writers strike reunion picket outside Fox Studios.

The gathering of writers, actors, directors and crew members from the Fox drama series proved once again that “Bones” was one of TV’s happiest sets during its 12-season run from 2005-2017. Star Emily Deschanel, who played forensic anthropologist Temperance “Bones” Brennan on the procedural, was in attendance at the picket held on Day 67 of Writers Guild of America strike. So were series showrunners Hart Hanson, Stephen Nathan, Jonathan Collier and Michael Peterson and writer-producers including Liz Benjamin, Dean Lopata, Janet Lin and Karine Rosenthal.

“All the truisms of why a show is a happy, non-toxic place is why ‘Bones’ was such a happy place,” Hanson told Variety. “Who is No. 1 on the call sheet? What is that person like? What is No.

Sometimes the seemingly most dire situations can actually become a blessing in disguise, especially for people who are forced into extreme business deals they feel can quickly become disastrous. That’s certainly the case for actor Stephen Nathan’s character of Harry Schechter in the 1976 musical comedy, ‘The First Nudie Musical.’ The cult classic is being […]

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"They said it couldn't be done, but they were wrong!" Quiver has debuted a new trailer for the re-release of a cult comedy from the 70s called The First Nudie Musical, made by filmmakers Mark Haggard & Bruce Kimmel. This first opened in 1976 and is getting a VOD / Blu-ray re-release this February in the US. The movie is a comedy starring Cindy Williams, Stephen Nathan, and Bruce Kimmel. Nathan plays Harry Schechter, heir to a Hollywood studio who's forced to make a musical comedy porno in order to stave off bankruptcy. The movie features a series of farcical lewd musical numbers in the style of classical Hollywood musical comedies including: "Orgasm", "Lesbian Butch Dyke", and "Dancing Dildos." The movie has a low-budget feel, with a "musical-within-a-movie" theme in the tradition of Singin' in the Rain, but with satirical sexual humor. If you're curious, don't worry there's no nudity in this trailer,...

The First Nudie Musical, will be available for the first time on VOD/Digital on February 25th from Quiver Distribution. Written by Bruce Kimmel and starring Cindy Williams (American Graffiti, Laverne & Shirley), Stephen Nathan (Bones), Diana Canova (Soap), and Susan Buckner (Grease),

Here’s a vintage trailer:

The son of a famous studio owner is forced to make porno films to keep the bankrupt studio from being made into a shopping center. In an attempt to get back on the high ground he makes a nudie musical. He makes a bet with the debtors who wish to take ownership of the studio, that if they finance the musical and he can’t complete it within two weeks, they can foreclose.

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In this episode, Ben and Daniel discuss the 1982 concert 'Showstoppers The Best of Broadway.' The evening is hosted by Tom Bosley and features Broadway favorites such as Ethel Merman, Barry Bostwick, Susan Browning, Len Cariou, Nell Carter, Diahann Carroll, Carole Demas, David Haskell, Glynis Johns, Donna McKechnie, Robert Morse, Pamela Myers, Stephen Nathan, Jerry Orbach, Anthony Perkins, Debbie Reynolds, Alexis Smith, and Ray Walston.

In this episode, Ben and Daniel discuss the 1982 concert 'Showstoppers The Best of Broadway.' The evening is hosted by Tom Bosley and features Broadway favorites such as Ethel Merman, Barry Bostwick, Susan Browning, Len Cariou, Nell Carter, Diahann Carroll, Carole Demas, David Haskell, Glynis Johns, Donna McKechnie, Robert Morse, Pamela Myers, Stephen Nathan, Jerry Orbach, Anthony Perkins, Debbie Reynolds, Alexis Smith, and Ray Walston.

When Bones signs off on Tuesday night, after 12 seasons on Fox, it will do so as the network’s longest-running scripted drama, having solved -- according to finale promos -- 275 cases in 246 episodes. And that prolific conviction rate may not even be the most impressive thing that the series accomplished.

Because Bones -- which was based on the life and works of real-life forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs -- did more than just stay on the air, leapfrogging more than 20 different time slots in its 12-year run. In a television landscape populated with morose antiheroes and sarcastic protagonists that often poke fun at the earnestness of cops-and-science procedurals like Bones, sometimes directly by name (see: American Dad, Bojack Horseman, Bob’s Burgers and more), the show was a champion of justice and evidence, science and guts, “brains and heart.” It told new stories every week, while at the same time unfolding its central characters little by little, making...

We're going back to the lab. In advance of the Bones season 12 and TV series finale, Fox has released a new video, "Back to the Lab: A Bones Retrospective." Check it out, as well as the episode descriptions for Bones 12.11, "The Final Chapter: The Day in the Life," and the Bones series finale, episode 12.12 "The Final Chapter: The End in The End."The Bones TV show retrospective includes some never before seen footage and explores the Fox series from beginning. It also includes new interviews with Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, T. J. Thyne, Tamara Taylor, John Boyd, Hart Hanson, Stephen Nathan, Kathy Reichs, Barry Josephson, Michael Peterson, Jonathan Collier, and Karine Rosenthal. Read More…...

If you’ve been jonesing for some Bones reminiscing in advance of the long-running drama’s upcoming finale, your prayers have been answered.

On Thursday, Fox released the video above, featuring members of the cast and production staff talking about the show’s 12-season evolution. Leads David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel are there, as well as stars Michaela Conlin, T.J. Thyne, Tamara Taylor and John Boyd and EPs Hart Hanson, Stephen Nathan, Michael Peterson, Jonathan Collier and Barry Josephson.

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In an alternate universe, Bones could have been very different. Series creator Hart Hanson joined the cast and current executive producers of the series on a panel in front of the TV Critics' Association on Wednesday and revealed that had he not stepped down as showrunner in 2013, a few things on the show would be very different. First of all, one beloved character would still be alive. "When I first stopped running the show so that Stephen Nathan was running it, one of the first things he did was completely and utterly defy me and killed Sweets," Hanson said. "I would never have killed Sweets, but Stephen was running the show, and it obviously was a good idea." For those who...

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Question: Any word on what Laurel made Oliver promise her right before she died on Arrow? Was it something for him to do or not do? —Kia

Ausiello: Look at Kia kicking off the first new AA in more than a month with a sensational Q! Here’s your answer, straight from showrunner Wendy Mericle. “It is both actually, and you’ll find out what it was in [the Oct. 5 premiere],” teases the Ep, who adds that the reveal will “inform...

Ben Rappaport (Mr. Robot) has been cast as a series regular in Zoobiquity, Fox's light medical procedural pilot written by Bones executive producers Stephen Nathan and Jon Collier and directed by Kevin Bray. Based on the best-selling book by Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers, Zoobiquity follows the unlikely pairing of Dr. Kara Martins (Marsha Thomason), a successful, driven cardiologist as she risks career suicide by teaming with Dr. Lucas Cort (Peter…...

Peter Facinelli (Nurse Jackie) and Kim Raver (24) have joined Zoobiquity, Fox’s unconventional medical procedural pilot, TVLine has learned.

The potential series, based on the book of the same name, follows Dr. Kara Martins (played by White Collar‘s Marsha Thomason), a successful cardiologist at a Boston hospital who decides to partner with a socially challenged veterinarian to pioneer cross-species medicine.

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Facinelli, who is currently recurring on CBS’ Supergirl, will play the vet, Dr. Lucas Court, whose bond with his animal patients verges on the uncanny.

Peter Facinelli has been tapped as the male lead opposite Marsha Thomason in Zoobiquity, Fox's light medical procedural pilot written by Bones executive producers Stephen Nathan and Jon Collier and directed by Kevin Bray. Also set for a lead role in the project is 24 alumna Kim Raver, who has just signed with Gersh. Based on the best-selling book by Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers, Zoobiquity follows the unlikely pairing of Dr. Kara Martins (Thomason), a…...

Bones, the long-running comedic procedural beloved by millions of fans around the world, will return for a final farewell Season 12 on Fox, it was announced today by Dana Walden and Gary Newman, Chairmen and CEOs, Fox Television Group. The 12-episode run will celebrate the inventive series and bring the storylines of Brennan (Emily Deschanel), Booth (David Boreanaz) and the Jeffersonian-fbi team to a close, allowing the show's loyal fans to say goodbye to these indelible characters. When Bones ends its run, the series will have completed 246 original episodes, making it one of the longest running Fox series ever. Here's what series creator Hart Hanson had to say about his show's final season.

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Marsha Thomason is ignoring half of showbiz’s conventional “never work with children or animals” wisdom.

The White Collar alum has been cast as the female lead in Zoobiquity, an unconventional medical procedural pilot at Fox, our sister site Deadline reports.

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The potential series, based on the book of the same name, follows Thomason’s Dr. Kara Martins, a successful cardiologist at a Boston hospital who decides to partner with a socially challenged veterinarian to pioneer cross-species medicine.

The project is written and executive-produced by Bones‘ Stephen Nathan and Jonathan Collier.

White Collar alumna Marsha Thomason will play the female lead in Zoobiquity, Fox’s light medical procedural pilot based on the best-selling book of the same name by Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers. Also cast in the project is Antonia Bernath (Downton Abbey, The Astronaut Wives Club). Written by Bones executive producers Stephen Nathan and Jon Collier, the project follows the unlikely pairing of Dr. Kara Martins (Thomason), a successful, driven…...

Fox has ordered a TV show pilot for Zoobiquity, from Bones showrunners past and present, Stephen Nathan and Jon Collier. A medical procedural, Zoobiquity is an adaptation of the Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers book of the same name.

Previously, we reported Fox was retooling this animal and human health drama. Looks like they selected the sharpest tools in the shed. Writers Collier and Nathan will executive produce, with Spencer Medof. Natterson-Horowitz and Bowers are producing.

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Fox has handed out a pilot order for a series adaptation of Barbara Natterson-Horowitz's best-selling book "Zoobiquity," just days after rival CBS greenlit the similar sounding medical drama "Bunker Hill".

"Zoobiquity" is an unconventional medical procedural follows the pairing of a successful cardiologist risking career suicide teaming with a socially challenged veterinarian who relates better to animals than people. Putting aside their competitive natures, the pair try to cure the incurable using a unique blend of cross-species medicine that's never been tried before.

This marks the third attempt at developing the project following Jon Collier and Stephen Nathan ("Bones") coming up with the first take, being replaced by "Satisfaction" creator Sean Jablonski for the second, and then Collier and Nathan returning for this third version which they will pen the script for and will executive produce alongside Spencer Medof.

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Updated: Fox has given a pilot order to Zoobiquity, a light medical procedural based on the best-selling book of the same name by Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers. Written by Bones executive producers Stephen Nathan and Jon Collier, the project follows the unlikely pairing of a successful, driven cardiologist as she risks career suicide by teaming with a socially-challenged veterinarian who relates better to animals than people. They try to put aside…...