Source: South Bend Tribune

The Fox drama “Bones” is testing unfamiliar waters this week — well, at least, unfamiliar shores.

The series about partners Dr. Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) began principal photography Saturday in London for this fall’s two-hour season premiere. It’s the first time the series has shot outside Southern California.

The Season Four opener, slated to air at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3 on Fox, has Brennan guest-lecturing at Oxford University and Booth speaking at Scotland Yard when they are asked by local officials to lend their expertise to a high-profile murder investigation involving a young British heiress.

The shooting schedule has the cast and crew in the U.K. for several weeks at locations that include Oxford, the Thames River, Tower Bridge, Lambeth Palace, official residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and throughout the streets of the city. The episode is also aptly titled “Yanks in the U.K.”