This week FOX will talk with Bones TV series producers, to decide whether or not to renew the crime dramedy for a 12th season. During the FOX TCA party, showrunners Jonathan Collier and Michael Peterson told TVInsider, they are having a great time and want to make season 12 of Bones.
While Bones stars Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz have filed a lawsuit over profits, which could be moved to arbitration, Collier reports they have both enjoyed this season. He and Peterson also talked about the planned two-part Bones season 11 finale, which could possibly be the Bones TV series finale.
From TVInsider:
As the writers shape the second half the season with its future up in the air, for now, “we’ve adjusted slightly,” Peterson said. “We looked at the last episodes and how we’re going to do it. Right now, we’re looking at a two-parter to finish out the season, with the new serial killer and some special guest cast at the end.”
“What we’re looking for the end of the season is big,” Peterson continued. “It should excite our fans who have been with us from the very beginning. We don’t want it to be the last [year], but if it is, we’re going out big.”
But the showrunners were coy when discussing which character(s) might return for the end of the season. “We might be able to wrap up storylines, we might be able to close certain holes that have been left open in the show over the years,” Collier teased.
One of the bigger holes in Bones is the fact that fans have known since Season 4—but no one who is (alive) on the team is aware—that original team member Zack Addy (Eric Millegan) only helped serial killer, Gormogon, find his victim; Zack never killed anyone himself, but he was willing to let people think he did so he could remain in an asylum versus being sent to prison on a conspirator charge.
But the showrunners wouldn’t confirm one way or another if Zack would return in Season 11. “We wouldn’t rule anything out,” Collier said. (Millegan, who was a series regular for Bones’ first three seasons, last popped up in the show’s 100th episode.)
Last week, FOX Co-Chair and CEO, Dana Walden, was uncertain if Bones would be cancelled after 11 seasons or renewed for a 12th. She did say FOX would only do another season of Bones with both Deschanel and Boreanaz.
Peterson is on record as saying he would like Bones to continue forever.
At the outset of Bones 11th season, reportedly, Boreanaz was looking forward to ending the series.
What do you think? Which plot points and storylines do you want addressed, before the Bones TV show ends? Is it the right time for the show to go out on a high note?
I feel like they are part of my family please renew for season 12.
I want Bones to be renewed for season 12.
I would love to see Zack return to the show.
I agree that “Booth & Brennan” will be hard pressed to be part of anything else as successful as Bones. Since I “found” Bones a few months ago I have watched the 10 seasons several times & am sad to have to wait to rewatch the 1st half of season 11. It would be silly to leave season 11 as incomplete & hope all the staff respect their audience enough to at least finish 11. There are very few shows the quality of Bones & we will all have a gap that hasn’t been filled by anything else on TV.
I love this show and am hoping it will continue for another season. But I was terribly disappointed that it isn’t even on the winter/spring 2016 schedule. Please, at the very least finish this season. And please seriously consider doing a 12th season.
If this is it for the show, then they need to address Pops’ death. When Ralph Waite passed, they said they couldn’t at that time, as the final eps had already been broken in terms of filming and such. Yet, they haven’t addressed it since either.
However they end the show, be it this season or a future season, it has to be good. We’ve seen how fans react when a show ends horribly all around. It’s not only disrespectful to the fans, but the cast & crew who’ve spent a huge chunk of their lives with the characters.
I love this show please don’t end the show
I love this show, please please make season 12
Bones is a great series show I loved it everybody know loves it you need to renew it for a series 12 season 12 because it is excellent I love it and I don’t know anybody that doesn’t love it that network needs to get together with the actors and actresses and make this happen
I definitely want to see Zack return and be exonerated! I don’t think that there will ever be a good time to end Bones! I still watch it from the beginning on TNT. By the same token, if either David or Emily leaves, there is no more Bones!!
If they are going to end Bones, then one storyline I would like for them to do is give closer to The Finder. What happened to Walter is he still in jail.
I think it is really sad that such a great show has to endure such BS. I hope that Bones continues for many more seasons. David and Emily would be crazy to leave such a successful beloved series. I hate the midseason hiatus/break that has become so common lately. Please let there be many more seasons?
PLEASE take care of pending matters so Bones can continue for another season. There are more forensic stories to be told and I love ALL the characters, not just Booth & Brennan,. I would LOVE to see Zack back too if possible. I still miss him and Sweets. I don’t want the show to end just yet.
I say, “evacuate or get off the throne” … my opinion, thanks …
My mom’s version of that saying has fewer syllables and less grace.
It is bad news that Bones will not have a season 12 is the reason that Bones will not be the same
Without David Borcanaz leaving
It is not cancelled, Steve (at least not yet). They’re talking about a 12th season, but want to make a good season 11 finale, in case this is the last. I know Boreanaz said he was done, but things change, and money talks.
he said in 8 season and 9 season his was done but stayed for 3 more seasons Emily said during the 200th episode party she hopes for a anther 100 episodes of Bones and is no story how Brennan meet the other