The truth is coming out at TCA winter press tour. Bones EP Hart Hanson confirmed FOX cancelled Bones. It was not the creative team’s decision to end the long-running procedural series. Although star Emily Deschanel echoed his sentiment, it seems David Boreanaz remained mum on the cancellation.
Variety reports Hanson said, “It wasn’t our decision. We were told it was our last year. It wasn’t that we called that network and said, ‘We’d like to finish now’. I’m not sure anyone is terribly upset or terribly shocked that it’s our last year.” Bones first premiered on FOX September 13, 2005.
About the Bones TV Show Cancellation
According to the report, Deschanel said, “It wasn’t our decision.” She also added, “We had a really good run!” Finally, Deschanel teased that Bones’ 12th and final season ends in a “very satisfying way.”
Deadline reports on the issue a bit more in depth, and with more of a bite. Check it out.
Creator Hart Hanson said he fought with Fox for the entire life of the series. “We were on the bubble all the time,” he said. “We were angry all the time, calling the network asking for more promos. I was furious with the [move to] Friday announcement; I felt it was just telling” TV critics the show was toast. “I had huge fights with [longtime scheduling chief] Preston Beckman, who is not someone you want to fight with. He is tough!” Hanson remembered with a shudder. (Beckman was part of the old Fox regime, which moved Bones around the schedule, including to Fridays in Season 9.)
“Our fans were loud and passionate and very opinionated, and they would follow us,” he said, crediting viewers with keeping the show on the air so long despite the best effort of network execs. The show outlasted four network chiefs and 20 timeslots, Hanson boasted, acknowledging that at some point he struck a “go ahead and try to kill us” attitude.
“The cockroaches of Fox,” he said, lovingly.
What do you think? How do you feel about FOX cancelling the Bones TV show? Should the network have renewed it for season 13?
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32 Comments on "Bones: Cancelled by FOX; Ending the Series “Wasn’t Our Idea”"
Please don’t cancel Bones it’s one of the best series ever even better than CSI, law and order, ect. After all this years it’s to late to cancel now we fell in love with it.
Please, please bring bones back on the air! It was the best show EVER!
We love bones and really are disappointed the show was cancelled. There was real chemistry between the cast that came thru and made the show a success. Everyone was really good together. Each episode had very good stories. The writers were very good. I do hope that the network will reconsider and put this show back on the air.
I love the show and I loved Bones and Booth together! I hate you are cancelling it. Though you made it hard to keep track of by moving the schedule constantly.
i want to see season 13 and 14. i want to see the kids grow and see what they are in the future.
please bring it back. I love this show so much.
Please bring it back so funny and serious at same time really enjoyed and looked forward to each episode
Bring it back. It was enjoyable and enlightning. I don’t like many of those “Reality shows after a few episodes. But they stay on air while good shows go off air.
Bones is one of the very best TV series I have ever watched I don’t watch TV a lot but when I do it is usually a good show that’s worth watching….now that bones is off the air.. I won’t be watching much TV again…the show is great..bring it back…
I’m totally pissed I just read this. Bones is my favorite show. I’ve watched every episode of every season and now it’s gone . Does Fox have a corporate number so I can call and complain? Lol no but I’m kind of serious , I need that number!
It was a great show. One of the few shows left to watch. It actually had thought involved plot lines and respectful dialogue unlike most shows today. My reading time just increased and alternatively my viewing time on FOX just went to zero. I would hope they would bring it back if only to provide entertainment for intelligent folks.
My girls and I loved Bones. My baby girl, 15 cried. She then was furious. Lol. She said they can’t do that to me. Lol it was too sweet. But we all love it and hate it’s gone.
Bones was the only show Fox had & never missed an episode. This is just another reason not to like Fox. Bring back bones or your off my list of networks.
Please bring bones back forget the negative this is an awesome series please continue love the team
I feel the agony of the devout Bones audience now that Fox has cancelled the longstanding procedural drama. I cried for 3 years when CBS cancelled Cold Case in 2010. What a perfect day it would be if CBS were to renew Cold Case, and Fox were to reinstate Bones.