From executive producers Barry Josephson (“Hide and Seek,” “Like Mike”) and Hart Hanson (“Joan of Arcadia,” “Judging Amy”) comes "Bones", an investigative drama inspired by real-life forensic anthropologist and best-selling novelist Kathy Reichs.

Dr Temperance Brennan is a highly skilled forensic anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian Institution and writes novels as a sideline. Law enforcement calls on her to assist with murder investigations when the standard methods of identifying a body are useless – when the remains are badly decomposed, burned or destroyed beyond recognition. Brennan’s special expertise lies in her uncanny ability to read clues left behind in the victim’s bones.

Brennan often finds herself teamed with Special Agent Seeley Booth of the FBI’s Homicide Investigations Unit. A former Army sniper, Booth mistrusts science and scientists – the “squints,” as he calls them, who pore over the physical evidence. Booth believes the key to solving crimes lies in discovering the truth from those still alive – witnesses and suspects – through good-old-fashioned investigative work.

Slightly at odds with the world, Brennan is most comfortable with her equally brilliant colleagues at the Jeffersonian’s Medico-Legal Lab. Angela Montenegro, earthy and bawdy, is Brennan’s friend and fellow scientist who’s created a unique way to render the original crime scene in three-dimensional computer images; Brennan’s assistant, Zack Addy, is a young prodigy whose genius IQ actually gets in the way of his finishing the several doctorates he has begun; and “the bug guy,” Dr Jack Hodgins, is an expert on insects, spores and minerals, but conspiracy is his hobby. Brennan’s boss is the imposing lab director, Dr Daniel Goodman, who loans out her services to the FBI.

From the official Fox website.

Created by Hart Hanson (2005-)