The truth is coming out at TCA winter press tour. 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?
Yes I think the show should continue it is one of the greatest crime mystery shows ever created and I and hundreds of people that I know personally ( not including the hundreds of thousands if not more that I don’t personally know ) would gladly follow the show for another 12 seasons !
I have been disappointed over Bones’ cancellation. I rarely watch TV…only 3 shows actually…Bones, Black List, and Criminal Minds. Bones was the most satisfying of the 3 because of the mixture of comedy. Although I appreciate it lasting as long as it did, it could have lasted a few more seasons. These 3 shows were abnormalities because every show I have found and liked has gone off the air within 2 seasons of my finding it. Guess I personally feel like I need to try and substantiate the exorbitant price I pay for TV and now I am down to… Read more »
Love the show. I can only watch the rerun so many times. I miss it
I think Fox sucks. Beckman has no taste and someone else should take the network over.
Bring Bones back it’s a really amazing tv show! And besides y’all left us hanging as what happens next!! So bring it back we need season 13. Y’all got shows that no one cares for in the high 20s season. So BRING BACK BONES!!!
Darn! My favorite show, cancelled? Science, rationalist thought, curiosity based entertainment, takes another blow. The glorification of stupity under D. Trump reigns supreme.
Bones show both educational work life and family love. It has the best of both worlds. Even adding a bit of comedy to remain viewers that it is a show worth watch. Canceling Bones is the worst move Fox could have made.