The ratings for Bones keep dropping lower each season. There’s also been talk that season 10 will likely be the show’s last. Will FOX cancel their long-running series or renew it for an 11th season instead. We’ll have to wait and see.
Bones revolves around a married couple who use their skills as an FBI agent (David Boreanaz) and a forensic anthropologist (Emily Deschanel) to solve difficult cases. The show’s cast also includes Michaela Conlin, TJ Thyne, Tamara Taylor, and John Francis Daley.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings (particularly the 18-49 demo), the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available — typically the following morning, around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.
5/8 update: FOX has renewed Bones for an 11th season.
Final season averages: 1.24 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 5.37 million total viewers.
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Last year comparison: The ninth season of Bones averaged a 1.7 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 6.61 million total viewers.
Note: These are the final national numbers (unless noted with an “*”). These are different from the fast affiliate numbers which are just estimates of the actual ratings. The final nationals are typically released within 24 hours of the programming or, in the case of weekends and holidays, a couple days later.
What do you think? Do you still like the Bones TV series? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for an 11th season?
Don’t take Bones of. All our family loves it.
We love Bones. However because of our work schedules we watch on the internet. Don’t cancel Bones!!!
Fox you have a wonderful show.
The family like bone and there serials
Me and my family watch bones everyday…. We love the show…. It is very educational, funny, interesting, and successful if you ask me…… And what I mean by that it teaches about life, and the human body which my children take serious interest to, because they learn from it, and me too…. Please renew…
please DO NOT cancel the show bones I look forward to it all the time ,I am a senior and sick and tired of all to new shows. The whole cast of Bones is delightful, and brightens my evenings. PLEASE RENEW it is so important to have a show where People have such a great camaraderie and at the same time educational. SO PLSE KEEP THE SHOW GOING
I vote for another season also. I love the quirky characters on the show! It has a different take on the usual police procedural type of shows.
PLEASE keep Bones on the air! It’s been a favorite of mine for it’s entire run, despite changes to its scheduling, and is one of the few series I purchase every year on DVD. I love a good scripted series with a talented and well-integrated ensemble cast, good writing (though some recent episodes and plot turns have not been my favorites), good drama levened by good comedy, and continuity, I understand that cast changes are bound to occur because some actors will want to move on to embrace other challenges, and while Sweets’ death seemed to me to have been… Read more »
I like bones and the FBI agent David Boreal also
Emily Deschanel so keep the show
So renew the show
The family likes bones as well the people
who are an the show
keep Bones! we love it here in the Philippines. The ratings must not just be in the US.
Please keep Bones on. My family and I look forward to watching every episode. Season 11 is a must.
If FOX would leave the dang show in one spot long enough for the viewer to remember when it is on, the ratings might do up!!!! It pisses me off, I have to go searching every year for when it is on, and then they change it mid season too!!!!
And let’s face it putting it up against Big Bang Theory, NOT the best place! NOTHING and I mean NOTHING is going to fair well against BBT.
Maddie May 8, 2015 at 12:50 pm Hi Maddie. Well we got an 11th season, and new storyline leaders to boot! I am so happy there will be a season 11 and am sure you are too. As to BBT, it was CBS’ tactic to move BBT opposite to Bones starting with Bones S10-E05, CBS’s market share immediately doubled for that time slot and Bones’ declined by 15% from that of the previous season episodes. That decline has continue to become bigger, now at roughly negative 33% of the season shares before BBT, but CBS has also decline some too… Read more »
Forgot to mention Fox’ Fall 2015 schedule lineup has Bones staying on Thursday evenings at 8:00 ET, which is a pleasant surprise in addition to an 11th season.
Recently Exec. Producer Nathan did state that the episodes leading up to the end of Season 10 were being written both to serve as a conclusion for the entire 10 year series and as a conclusion for just Season 10. “The Verdict in the Victims”, S10-E18, aired 07-May-2015, and in it Angela and Hodgins seriously discuss that 10 years in the crime-fighting biz is enough for them and they plan to move to Paris. I think announcements for renewal/cancellation are to be made next week. Guess we will find out soon. Bones, the character, is not much like what she… Read more »
Bones is a keeper, and Agent Aubrey is a fantastic addition to the show!
Keep it going I love bones!!
Please keep Bones on the air! My whole family loves it!
I LOVE Bones!!!! Don’t cancel it!!!! Please keep renewing it!!!!
It is such a shame that Emily Deschanel’s real life pregnancy was not better handled in the Series or completely left out. The writers have struggled ever since the end of Season 6. I read a comment somewhere which suggested that the original cast of characters (never did care much for the caustic Saroyan character) + favorite interns leave the Jeffersonian and open their own for-profit operation. That might have worked to give new ground/situations for story-lines and plots therein; it might still work. So, I vote for a Season 11, but only if the entire creative crew is replaced… Read more »