Bones season 10 explained

Season Number:	10
Bgcolour:	ECE6D6
Num Episodes:	22
Network:	Fox
Episode List:	List of Bones episodes

The tenth season of the American television series Bones premiered on September 25, 2014, and concluded on June 11, 2015, on Fox. The show moved time slots from its previous season, airing on Thursdays at 8:00 pm ET.^[1]

Cast and characters

See also: List of Bones characters.

Main cast

• Emily Deschanel as Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan, a forensic anthropologist, and wife of Seeley Booth
• David Boreanaz as FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, who is the official FBI liaison with the Jeffersonian, and husband of Temperance Brennan
• Michaela Conlin as Angela Montenegro, a forensic artist and wife of Jack Hodgins
• Tamara Taylor as Dr. Camille Saroyan, a forensic pathologist, the head of the forensic division
• T. J. Thyne as Dr. Jack Hodgins, an entomologist, mineralogist, palynologist, and forensic chemist, and husband of Angela Montenegro
• John Francis Daley as Dr. Lance Sweets, an FBI psychologist who provides psychological reports on criminals and staff including Brennan and Booth
• John Boyd as James Aubrey, a junior FBI agent working under Booth

Recurring cast

• Sunnie Pelant as Christine Booth, Seeley and Temperance's daughter
• Patricia Belcher as Caroline Julian, a prosecutor who often works with the team
• Andrew Leeds as Christopher Pelant, a hacker
• Sterling Macer, Jr. as Victor Stark, the FBI Deputy Director
• Ryan O'Neal as Max Keenan, Brennan's father
• Sam Anderson as Hugo Sanderson, the owner of a powerful organization that may be the origin of the FBI conspiracy
• Michael Badalucco as Scott Starret, a previous Jeffersonian intern
• Billy Gibbons as Angela's father
• Cyndi Lauper as Avalon Harmonia, a psychic
• Danny Woodburn as Alex Radziwill, a Diplomatic immunity and State Department official
• Mather Zickel as Aldo Clemens, an ex-priest who counseled Booth when he was a sniper

Interns

• Carla Gallo as Daisy Wick
• Michael Grant Terry as Wendell Bray
• Eugene Byrd as Dr. Clark Edison
• Laura Spencer as Jessica Warren
• Pej Vahdat as Arastoo Vaziri
• Ignacio Serricchio as Rodolfo Fuentes
• Brian Klugman as Dr. Oliver Wells

Production

The series was renewed for a tenth season on January 29, 2014.^[2] Series creator Hart Hanson stepped down as showrunner for the tenth season to focus on his new TV series, Backstrom; longtime executive producer and writer Stephan Nathan took over the role of showrunner.^[2] In January 2014, Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly commented that season 10 would possibly be the final season, but in July 2014, Fox chairman and CEO Peter Rice commented, "I hope it's not the last year ... it's a fantastic series, it's famously moved all over our schedule for 10 years ... It's [Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz's] last year contractually, so we have to have that conversation ... but I hope that they will come back."^[3] The tenth season features the series' 200th episode, written by Stephen Nathan and directed by series star David Boreanaz, which is an Alfred Hitchcock homage set in the 1950s.^[4]

In July 2014, John Boyd was cast in a recurring role of James Aubrey, a junior FBI agent working under Booth.^[5] However, it was later revealed that Boyd would be a series regular.^[6] The character of Lance Sweets, portrayed by John Francis Daley who joined the cast in the third season, is killed off in the season premiere episode. The decision to kill off the character was because Daley needed a break from the series to direct the upcoming National Lampoon's Vacation remake, Vacation, and executive producer Stephan Nathan thought killing off the character instead of just writing him off would be more impactful.^[7] With the series' 206th episode, Bones became the longest-running one-hour drama for producing studio 20th Century Fox Television, and the episode also names all 206 bones in the human body.^[8] Emily Deschanel's real-life pregnancy was written into the show (like her first pregnancy), and the season features the reveal that Brennan is pregnant with her and Booth's second child.^[9] The season finale was written as a potential series finale, as it was written before the writers knew the series was renewed for another season.^[10]

Episodes

Ratings

Live +7 DVR ratings

Live +7 ratings is the number of viewers who watched a particular episode live, plus the number of viewers via DVR over a seven-day period from the original broadcast.

No.	Episode	Air date	Time slot (ET)	18–49 rating increase	Viewers increase (millions)	Total 18–49	Total viewers (millions)	Ref
1	"The Conspiracy in the Corpse"		Thursdays 8:00 p.m.	0.8	2.49	2.4	8.83
2	"The Lance to the Heart"			0.9	2.75	2.4	9.16	^[11]
3	"The Purging of the Pundit"			0.8	2.35	2.4	8.74	^[12]
4	"The Geek in the Guck"			0.8	2.58	2.5	9.14	^[13]
5	"The Corpse at the Convention"			0.8	2.57	2.1	8.17	^[14]
6	"The Lost Love in the Foreign Land"			0.9	2.69	2.2	8.33	^[15]
7	"The Money Maker on the Merry-Go-Round"			0.8	2.53	2.1	8.03	^[16]
8	"The Puzzler in the Pit"			0.8	2.31	2.1	7.58	^[17]
9	"The Mutilation of the Master Manipulator"			0.8	2.63	2.3	8.33	^[18]
10	"The 200th in the 10th"			0.8	1.85	2.0	7.34
11	"The Psychic in the Soup"			0.7	2.36	2.0	8.20	^[19]
12	"The Teacher in the Books"			0.8	2.68	1.9	7.42	^[20]
13	"The Baker in the Bits"			0.6	2.21	1.7	7.24	^[21]
14	"The Putter in the Rough"			0.7	2.48	1.7	7.36	^[22]
15	"The Eye in the Sky"			0.6	2.13	1.6	6.78	^[23]
16	"The Big Beef at the Royal Diner"			0.7	2.25	1.7	6.54	^[24]
17	"The Lost in the Found"			0.5	1.93	1.6	6.64	^[25]
18	"The Verdict in the Victims"			0.5	1.84	1.6	6.11
19	"The Murder in the Middle East"			0.6	1.91	1.6	6.62	^[26]
20	"The Woman in the Whirlpool"			0.6	2.01	1.8	7.43	^[27]
21	"The Life in the Light"			0.7	1.97	1.8	7.17	^[28]
22	"The Next in the Last"			0.7	2.25	1.9	7.36	^[29]

DVD release

The tenth season of Bones was released on DVD (subtitled "Blackmail & Jail Edition") in region 1 on September 29, 2015,^[30] and in region 2 on October 12, 2015.^[31] The set includes all 22 episodes of season ten on a 6-disc DVD set presented in anamorphic widescreen. Special features include deleted scenes, a gag reel, and two featurettes—"Sweets' Sweetest Moments" and "From Script to Screen: Creating the 200th Episode".^[30]

References

General references

• Web site: Bones Season 10 episodes. TV Guide. June 11, 2015.
• Web site: shows A–Z – bones on fox. The Futon Critic. June 11, 2015.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fox's Fall Premiere Plan Includes Family Guy/Simpsons Crossover, 3-Part Utopia Launch, Late Mulaney Start . TVLine . Matt Webb . Mitovich . July 10, 2014 . August 28, 2014.
2. Web site: Bones Renewed for Season 10, but Moving to a New Night . E! Online . Tierney . Bricker . January 29, 2014 . August 28, 2014.
3. Web site: 'Bones' season 11? More '24'? Fox chief gives odds . Entertainment Weekly . James . Hibberd . July 20, 2014 . August 28, 2014.
4. Web site: Bones' 200th Episode Premise Revealed (and It's Pretty Freakin' Cool) . TVLine . Michael . Ausiello . October 20, 2014 . October 20, 2014 . October 21, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141021232947/http://tvline.com/2014/10/20/bones-hitchcock-200th-episode-season-10-plot/ . dead .
5. Web site: Bones Recruits 24 Alum as Booth's FBI Protégé in Season 10 . TVLine . Michael . Ausiello . July 15, 2014 . August 28, 2014.
6. Web site: Tonight on ‘Bones’ season 10, episode 4: Growing pains . Hypable . Kate . Bonk . October 16, 2014 . October 20, 2014.
7. Web site: Exclusive: 'Bones' star reacts to dark twist . USA Today . Bill . Keveney . September 26, 2014 . September 26, 2014.
8. Web site: Bones preview: 206 bones for 206 episodes . Entertainment Weekly . Kelly . Connolly . April 30, 2015 . May 1, 2015.
9. Web site: Bones Boss: Emily Deschanel's Pregnancy Will Be Written into Show . TVLine . Kimberly . Roots . December 10, 2014 . April 24, 2015.
10. Web site: Bones EP Stephan Nathan talks Booth's gambling, teases 'emotional' season finale . Entertainment Weekly . Kelly . Connolly . June 10, 2015 . June 11, 2015.
11. Web site: Thursday Final Ratings: Soft Starts for ‘Bad Judge’, ‘A to Z’, ‘Gracepoint’. Pucci. Douglas. TV Media Insights. October 3, 2014. July 15, 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20151105192656/http://www.tvmediainsights.com/tv-ratings/thursday-final-ratings-soft-starts-bad-judge-z-gracepoint/. November 5, 2015.
12. Web site: Thursday Final Ratings: NFL on CBS Continues to Dominate the Night. Pucci. Douglas. TV Media Insights. October 10, 2014. July 15, 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20151105192658/http://www.tvmediainsights.com/tv-ratings/thursday-final-ratings-nfl-cbs-continues-dominate-night/. November 5, 2015.
13. Web site: Thursday Final Ratings: NFL Continues Its Thursday Win Streak for CBS and NFL Network. Pucci. Douglas. TV Media Insights. October 17, 2014. July 15, 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20151105192733/http://www.tvmediainsights.com/tv-ratings/thursday-final-ratings-nfl-continues-thursday-win-streak-cbs-nfl-network/. November 5, 2015.
14. Web site: Thursday Final Nationals: CBS, ABC Share Leadership. TV Media Insights. Pucci. Douglas. July 15, 2015. November 2, 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150927151750/http://www.tvmediainsights.com/tv-ratings/thursday-final-nationals-cbs-abc-share-leadership/. September 27, 2015.
15. Web site: 'The Big Bang Theory' Has Biggest Adults 18-49 Ratings Increase; 'The Originals' Tops Percentage Gains & 'The Blacklist' Leads Viewer Gains in Live +7 Ratings for Week 7 Ending November 9. https://web.archive.org/web/20141126170428/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/11/24/the-big-bang-theory-has-biggest-adults-18-49-ratings-increase-the-originals-tops-percentage-gains-the-blacklist-leads-viewer-gains-in-live-7-ratings-for-week-7-ending-november-9/330973/. dead. November 26, 2014. TV by the Numbers. Bibel. Sara. November 24, 2014. November 24, 2014.
16. Web site: 'The Big Bang Theory' Has Biggest Adults 18-49 Ratings Increase; 'The Vampire Diaries' Tops Percentage Gains & 'The Blacklist' Leads Viewer Gains in Live +7 Ratings for Week 8 Ending November 16. Kondolojy. Amanda. TV by the Numbers. December 2, 2014. July 16, 2015.
17. Web site: 'Modern Family' Has Biggest Adults 18-49 Ratings & Viewership Increase; 'Constantine' & 'The Vampire Diaries' Top Percentage Gains in Live +7 Ratings for Week 11 Ending December 7. Bibel. Sara. TV by the Numbers. December 22, 2014. July 16, 2015.
18. Web site: Wednesday Final Nationals: ABC Dominates with Record-High ESPYs. Pucci. Douglas. TV Media Insights. July 16, 2015. July 16, 2015.
19. Web site: Thursday Final Nationals: Record-Setting NCAA March Madness Sweet Sixteen Ratings for CBS and TBS. TV Media Insights. Pucci. Douglas. March 27, 2015. July 15, 2015.
20. Web site: 'The Big Bang Theory' Leads Adults 18-49 Gains, 'The Blacklist' Tops Percentage & Viewership Growth in Live +7 Ratings for Week 28 Ending April 5. https://web.archive.org/web/20150423223014/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/04/20/the-big-bang-theory-leads-adults-18-49-gains-the-blacklist-tops-percentage-viewership-growth-in-live-7-ratings-for-week-28-ending-april-5/392054/. dead. April 23, 2015. TV by the Numbers. Kondolojy. Amanda. April 20, 2015. April 20, 2015.
21. Web site: Thursday Final Nationals: ESPN Tops Broadcast Nets Among Adults 18-49 with NFL Draft Despite Year-to-Year Declines. Pucci. Douglas. TV Media Insights. May 2, 2015. July 16, 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150525175304/http://www.tvmediainsights.com/tv-ratings/thursday-final-nationals-espn-tops-broadcast-nets-among-adults-18-49-nfl-draft-despite-year-year-declines/. May 25, 2015.
22. Web site: 'The Big Bang Theory' Leads Adults 18-49 & Viewership Gains, 'Reign', 'Supernatural' & 'The Vampire Diaries' Top Percentage Growth in Live +7 Ratings for Week 30 Ending April 19. https://web.archive.org/web/20150504211700/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/05/04/the-big-bang-theory-leads-adults-18-49-viewership-gains-reign-supernatural-the-vampire-diaries-top-percentage-growth-in-live-7-ratings-for-week-30-ending-april-19/399200/. dead. May 4, 2015. TV by the Numbers. Kondolojy. Amanda. May 4, 2015. May 4, 2015.
23. Web site: Thursday Final Nationals: ABC’s ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Boosted by Emotional Episode. https://web.archive.org/web/20150428033353/http://www.tvmediainsights.com/tv-ratings/thursday-final-nationals-abc-greys-anatomy-boosted-by-emotional-episode/. dead. April 28, 2015. Pucci. Douglas. TV Media Insights. April 24, 2015. July 16, 2015.
24. Web site: Thursday Final Nationals: Double-Digit Week-to-Week Increases for ‘Wayward Pines’ on Fox. Pucci. Douglas. TV Media Insights. May 23, 2015. July 16, 2015.
25. Web site: Thursday Final Nationals: ‘The Big Bang Theory’ on CBS Rises with Season Finale. Pucci. Douglas. TV Media Insights. May 8, 2015. July 16, 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150511081214/http://www.tvmediainsights.com/tv-ratings/thursday-final-nationals-big-bang-theory-cbs-rises-season-finale/. May 11, 2015.
26. Web site: Thursday Final Nationals: ESPN Tops Among Key Demos, Double-Digit Finale Declines for Several Series, Soft Debut for ‘Wayward Pines’ on Fox. Pucci. Douglas. TV Media Insights. May 16, 2015. July 16, 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150520194540/http://www.tvmediainsights.com/tv-ratings/thursday-final-nationals-espn-tops-among-key-demos-double-digit-finale-declines-several-series-soft-debut-wayward-pines-fox/. May 20, 2015.
27. Web site: 'The Big Bang Theory' Leads Adults 18-49 & Viewership Gains, 'The Blacklist' & 'The Vampire Diaries' Top Percentage Growth in Live +7 Ratings for Week 31 Ending April 26. https://web.archive.org/web/20150513212829/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/05/11/the-big-bang-theory-leads-adults-18-49-viewership-gains-the-blacklist-the-vampire-diaries-top-percentage-growth-in-live-7-ratings-for-week-31-ending-april-26/402148/. dead. May 13, 2015. TV by the Numbers. Bibel. Sara. May 11, 2015. May 11, 2015.
28. Web site: 'Wayward Pines' Leads Adults 18-49, Viewership & Percentage Gains in Live +7 Ratings for Week 37 Ending June 7. https://web.archive.org/web/20150622201554/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/06/22/wayward-pines-leads-adults-18-49-viewership-percentage-gains-in-live-7-ratings-for-week-37-ending-june-8/420327/. dead. June 22, 2015. TV Media Insights. Bibel. Sara. June 22, 2015. July 16, 2015.
29. Web site: 'Wayward Pines' Leads Adults 18-49 Absolute Gains & Total Viewership Increases While 'The Whispers' Tops Percentage Gains for the Week Ending June 14. https://web.archive.org/web/20150701204838/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/06/29/wayward-pines-leads-adults-18-49-absolute-gains-total-viewership-increases-while-the-whispers-tops-percentage-gains-for-the-week-ending-june-14/424049/. dead. July 1, 2015. Kondolojy. Amanda. TV by the Numbers. June 29, 2015. July 16, 2015.
30. Web site: Bones - Official Fox Press Brief for 'The Complete 10th Season' on DVD . TVShowsOnDVD.com . David . Lambert . August 20, 2015 . August 21, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150821215859/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Bones-Season-10-Press-Release/21460 . August 21, 2015 .
31. Web site: Bones - Season 10 [DVD]]. Amazon.co.uk. August 20, 2015.