Bones is an ongoing 2005 television series on the FOX Network. It stars David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, Michaela Conlin, Eric Millegan, T.J. Thyne, and Jonathan Adams. Season 1 aired between September 13, 2005 and May 17, 2006. The second season premiered on August 30, 2006, with the introduction of a new character, Dr. Camille Saroyan, played by Tamara Taylor. The series is very loosely based on the Dr. Temperance Brennan character created in a series of novels by real-life forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, who is herself a producer on the show.

The program is a mystery/thriller, telling the story of a series of case files, solved weekly, by an unlikely alliance between Dr. Temperance Brennan's forensic anthropology team at the Jeffersonian Institute (a thinly veiled Smithsonian Institution) and the FBI.

Dr. Brennan's team brings scientific expertise (and an outsider perspective) to the world of criminal investigation, while Agent Seeley Booth brings human intuition, expertise, and "people skills" to the table. The result is an often strained relation (the two sides don't always understand one another), but the results are better than either side of the team could accomplish on their own.

Fans of the Brennan books have expressed their dismay that the character in the series only shares the name with the character in the books, and none of their life histories or characteristics match.

In an ironic reversal, the on-screen Temperance Brennan moonlights as an author, writing about the adventures of a fictional forensic anthropologist named Kathy Reichs.

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