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SeriesTV-142005

Bones

CrimeDrama

Created by Hart Hanson

Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless. From TMDB

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Bones is a 2005 crime drama TV series, created by Hart Hanson, starring Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz and John Boyd.

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Reviews for the pilot episode were mixed, and it holds a Metacritic score of 55 out of 100, based on 29 critical reviews. Subsequent episodes have received generally positive reviews. USA Today comments that, compared to other crime shows, the show "is built on a more traditional and solid foundation: the strength of its characters", and "what sets Tuesday's Bones premiere apart from the procedural pack are stars Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz, as the season's most appealing new crime fighters." On the other hand, Media Life Magazine said that while Bones has "an amazingly clever notion, brilliant even", its "execution doesn't match the conception" and, based on its first episode, the…

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  • LaDarrion Williams @itsladarrion.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 29, 2025

    5 years ago I made a lil tweet and now I’m dropping the second book in my Black fantasy series. Happy release day to Bones at the Crossroads! You can purchase it now! #booksky

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  • Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 6, 2026

    Re-watching Bones. My God, I miss actresses' faces that move and show micro expressions.

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  • Zarland Rex @zarlandrex.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 15, 2025

    The Dino gang comes together to celebrate the dino boy himself! 🦖🥳 ---------- Happy 4th Anniversary to Dinosaur Bones and now the 100th comic in the series!! #dinosaurbonescomic #dinosaurbones #comic #webcomic

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  • tinybaby @tiny.babyBluesky · Jan 25, 2026

    here's the pitch: it's a medical drama with a gifted but quirky protagonist (think House, Bones, the one with that autistic doctor). in this series, the lead is a forensic gynecologist, one of the most respected in her field, but the quirk is her name is Dr. Melanie Penis

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  • Abandon Ambition 🔜 FBL @abandonambition.comBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    Our Jovial Prince of Wine and Letters 🍷 Our Tyrannical King of Bones and Malice ⚔️ #art #watercolor #fantasyart #furryart ----------- Will be in the #Eurofurence #EF art show

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  • Russ Benson 🍁 @russellgburger.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2026

    @darthbluesky.bsky.social Indiana (Indy) Bones got a new navy blue turtleneck sweater and he is keen to show it off.

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  • Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 10, 2025

    "Fate Rewinder" manga gets anime series by Rie Matsumoto (Kyousougiga) & Bones Film studio. Teaser >> youtu.be/V1RzLtUVG2M

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  • Short King🎃Scream Queen @curiah.cityBluesky · Oct 28, 2026

    Buried Bones :: Issue #1 :: Cover 🦴🦴🦴 #Comics #Illustration #OriginalSeries #BuriedBones

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  • The Picard Maneuver @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 31, 2026

    Bones has one job, and he's going to do it.. For those watching Catspaw (S2E7) for Halloween today, you're braver than me.

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  • Evil Con Fettie @spacebeer.netBluesky · Mar 7, 2026

    Dry Bones has it worse though. Series veteran since 2005. Counted as an NPC driver so doesn't get any costumes 😔😔😔😔

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  • Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 11, 2025

    Bones from a cesspit at ancient Pollentia show Romans ate thrushes as fast food fare. 🏺🧪

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  • Trek Central @trekcentral.netBluesky · Dec 23, 2025

    🚨 BREAKING NEWS - #StrangeNewWorlds Casts Mr Sulu and Dr McCoy for Season 5! Thomas Jane (The Expanse) will play Leonard “Bones” McCoy, and Kai Murakami will play Hikaru Sulu in the final episode of the #StarTrek series!

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  • Raffi_RC @raffic.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2025

    you won’t believe this—Bones series, Season 6 Episode 23 has a cover version of a Raffi song in it!! done by the band Asleep At The Wheel! 🎳 #TheBowlingSong

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  • John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 12, 2026

    The television show Bones made its male star the highest paid actor on TV for a few years

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  • Troppygutz @troppy.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 16, 2026

    CW:Vore, Bones, fatal, burp - Was watching this show and loved this fatass cat :3 - #vore

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  • REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2025

    the TV show Bones aired from 2005 to 2017 - that's 12 years - meaning it lasted three times longer than the Confederacy

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  • Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.comBluesky · Aug 22, 2025

    "We Never Shed the Bones of the Beasts We Slay Within" An experimental collage series about strength from being broken; an acknowledgement that our inner demons remain a part of us even when they are conquered, leaving their bones behind to make us stronger from within. 1/

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  • /noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 22, 2025

    Why did Mermaid Bones cause one of the biggest controversies in Dwarf Fortress history? Find out this and more in the first episode of our series. Watch Here: youtu.be/MxV24so-dw8

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  • Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 23, 2025

    Thomas Jane will be playing a "young" Bones McCoy in the Strange New Worlds series finale, even though he's a decade older than DeForest Kelley was when Star Trek debuted in 1966.

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  • Mark @f0xinthehound.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2025

    I started rewatching Bones. One of many reasons to love this show.

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  • Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.orgBluesky · Oct 19, 2025

    BONES FOR BIRMINGHAM! Take em across the street and show them to the SEC headquarters!

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  • Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2026

    My third “Fuzzy” cover came for a SF Book Club omnibus collecting the two books. The art would appear again years later on FUZZY BONES, which was intended to be a continuation of the series written by William Tuning.

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  • Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 25, 2026

    You'll never guess what TV show Netflix's description calls "'Bones' meets 'The Departed.'" * * * * ["Rizzoli & Isles." It's "Rizzoli & Isles" that Netflix's description calls "'Bones' meets 'The Departed.'"]

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  • Andrew R. @redheadedfanboy.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 27, 2025

    Enjoyed the hell out of @marthawells.com Murderbot series so have to check out her other work. Starting with “City of the Bones”

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  • Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2023

    *cast of Bones sitting in awkward silence on Zoom call while I pitch the sequel series Bones: Resurrection* Me: The year is 3145. After the Omni-Emperor’s murder the Galactic Imperium needs to bring back history’s greatest forensic investigators. They clone them using, you guessed it, their bones

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  • Rev. Raziel 🔞 @gayratpunk.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 16, 2025

    Bones is an insane show i think about them getting malware from shit someone carved on some bones they scanned

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  • Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 2, 2025

    For #AutismAcceptance month ... Since this time last year, the cast & crew of Bones have come out that Bones was presented as Autistic and intended to be written as openly Autistic. However it was a network decision not to talk openly about Autism in the show.

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  • Jon Krawczynski @jonkrawczynski.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 16, 2025

    Update: Bones Hyland will be dropping by as well. Should be a great show!

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  • Sarah Raughley @sraughley.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2024

    Hello new followers! I'm Sarah Raughley! I am a scholar! And a geek! And the author of several YA book series including The Effigies Series, The Bones of Ruin trilogy and The Queen's Spade! Visit my website sarahraughley.com!

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  • insert credit @insertcredit.comBluesky · Jan 12, 2026

    Ep. 423 - Explode My Bones The panel reviews Mr. Bones, a Sega Saturn classic featuring frustrating design choices, a certain comedy level, and skeletism. insertcredit.com/show/423

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  • Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 21, 2024

    Bones from the tv show BONES has died transvestigating my skeleton.

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  • babymariofan2012.bsky.social @babymariofan2012.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2026

    Today is @zarlandrex.bsky.social birthday! I made a drawing of the whole dino crew in the Dinosaur Bones series, for my fan @zarlandrex.bsky.social #dinosaurbones #zalarstudios #dino #dinosaur #oc

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  • Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 16, 2025

    Charge your phone, Bones from that tv show Bones

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  • Sophie (and Miss Millie!) @trekkiesoph.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 19, 2025

    I honestly could have watched a whole series of just Spock and Bones getting into shenanigans. Nimoy and Kelley had such comedic chemistry.

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  • Jeff @gojeffgo.comBluesky · Oct 22, 2023

    My favorite part of the show "Bones" is when the titular skeleton known as Bones dances across the screen and everyone yells "It's Bones!"

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  • Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 1, 2025

    I always think about your "SHOW ME MY BONES" tweet.

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  • Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 16, 2026

    I wrote the two-book series STARS AND BONES and DESCENDANT MACHINE (@titanbooks.bsky.social) because I wanted to imagine what might happen if benevolent aliens came to rescue us from our own stupidity.

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  • Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.comBluesky · Oct 14, 2026

    Cyclist and viral Instagrammer Laini Bones shares the origin story behind her series of videos stealing men’s Strava crowns.  Listen to the full episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g... Watch the full interview on the Iheart Women’s Sports YouTube.

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  • Sarik 🖤🩶🤍💜 @sarikvaster.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    Oh Blood at the Root is written by LaDarrion Williams. The other two books in the series are Bones at the Crossroads and Ashes at the Altar.

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  • AiredOnTVToday @airedontvtoday.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2026

    On October 1, 1983, TV show 'Dungeons & Dragons' aired episode "The Hall of Bones"

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  • P'rfesser @prfesser.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2026

    Bones. The sexual tension between her and Booth did so much for the show, but once they actually got together, it seemed rather colorless. Not to mention Emily Deschanel's change from complete confidence to an unsure mode of diction IMHO.

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  • Zachariah @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 29, 2026

    * Goofy - Monster Mash * Hocus Pocus - Main Title * Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy - The Witches Are Back * The Melomen, Paul Frees, Betty Taylor, Bill Lee, THURL RAVENSCROFT - Grim Grinning Ghosts * The Citizens of Halloween - This Is Halloween - From “The Nightmare Before Christmas” * Andrew Gold - It Must Be Halloween * Andrew Gold - Spooky, Scary Skeletons * Andrew Gold - Trick Or Treat * Andrew Gold - Witches, Witches, Witches * Andrew Gold - In Our Haunted House * Andrew…

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  • LAZER - T @lazer-t.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 7, 2024

    SHOW ME YOUR BONES! How about some literal bones and some rigging bones?

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  • Smeesh 🌿 Illustrator for hire @asmeesh.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 26, 2026

    Tomorrow I am giving a presentation at a college My brother has a live dungeonsynth show The Long Dark DLC comes out Triskel (game I illustrated) launches on kickstarter And Dead Man's Bones is back?! BLESSED.

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  • Girl from Downers Grove @goodhart1989.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 17, 2026

    Picard is my captain. I watched the Star Trek premiere on September 8, 1966 in real time, I was 11. Loved that show, loved Kirk, Spock and Bones, but if I were to explore space, I'd want Jean-Luc in the Captain's chair.

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  • We Geek Girls @wegeekgirls.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2026

    New 'Treasure Island' Trailer The six-part series stars David Oyelowo as Long John Silver, Hayley Atwell as Bess Hawkins, Tom Sweet as Jim Hawkins, and Tomer Capone as Billy Bones. Premieres October 11th on MGM+. #TreasureIsland #MGMPlus

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  • Crossbyte @cross-byte.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2026

    Cw: #Vore, #Digestion, #Bones Bone alts. I'll take this opportunity to ask you to show tons of support to El-Tero, their art is unmatched. Be sure to check out their FA: www.furaffinity.net/user/el-tero/

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  • Dr. Gordon Schmidt @iopsychology.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 26, 2026

    Such a crucial part of the series is him asking advice! Spock and Bones have such different perspectives and Kirk uses that to come up with the solution he thinks is best.

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  • Angus Donald @angusdonald.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 23, 2026

    This is the first in my new "Buried Treasures" blog series about neglected novels: Robin Hood and the Castle of Bones angusdonaldbooks.com/robin-hood/b... #booksky

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  • Yen Press @yenpress.comBluesky · Sep 25, 2026

    NEW SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT: Chewed Flesh, Ground Bones 1999—the year that Nostradamus predicted would be the end of humanity. Riding a wave of unprecedented interest in the occult, Inubosaki (an editor for a third-rate paranormal mag) and Asama (a cameraman with a sixth sense) team up.

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  • Friendly Pumpkin @pumpkinpal.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 31, 2026

    I'm pleased to announce my new show, Mystery Procedural. It's a slow burn drama about a family trying & failing to adjust to the vapidity of life in a wealthy suburb, starring characters named Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Doctor House, Bones From The Show Bones, & Lieutenant Columbo. No crimes.

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  • The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2026

    "This event will bring together local bike, pedestrian and transit advocates, for a mini block party in front of the studio, an in person book talk and discussion with podcast hosts Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear, followed by an all-ages benefit show organized by Rag and Bones Bike Coop."

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  • Everyone Is a Critic @everyoneisacritic.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 29, 2026

    This marks the fifth time Roger Cross (Officer Wentworth) has appeared on the series as a different character. His previous appearances were in “E.B.E.”, “Fresh Bones”, “Pusher”, and “Folie a Deux.” This was his final appearance in the show. #XFilesLive

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  • Cobalt60 @co60.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 10, 2026

    "You shall drink the milk of the horned beast, which shall be found through the Portal of Infinite Tricks and Lies. The Fool of Bones will show you the way to this portal, but beware: he is not covered by insurance"

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  • Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.ukBluesky · Oct 14, 2026

    Ubisoft is shutting down Finnish studio RedLynx (Trials series), and cutting jobs at Ubisoft Singapore (Skull and Bones). (Read more at GamesIndustry)

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  • We Geek Girls @wegeekgirls.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 8, 2026

    'Treasure Island' Season 1 - First clip from Episode 1 - "Billy Bones" The six-part series stars David Oyelowo as Long John Silver, Hayley Atwell as Bess Hawkins, Tom Sweet as Jim Hawkins, and Tomer Capone as Billy Bones. Premieres October 11th on MGM+. [📽 via Rotten Tomatoes] #TreasureIsland

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  • Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    Niamh's beautiful show The Holding Bones is coming to Wexford soon.

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  • SupportBones @supportbones.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 1, 2026 · official account, not scored

    Btw, no show ever did it better. S3 e5, Mummy in the Maze #BONES 🎃💀

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  • Mayor Wren @www.qweeftown.netBluesky · Oct 19, 2026

    i think my dad was right, Bones is a tv show best watched by playing it in the background and actively doing something else instead of paying attention to anything that's happening on the show

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  • Shibari Study @shibari-study.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2026

    Watch the full series: shibaristudy.com/programs/bas... In this class, Anna Bones teaches the single-column tie (SCT), the Yuki knot and the double-column tie (DCT). She explains exactly why these are some of the most practical knots for play, and how they set you up for her self-tying classes too.

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