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Thanks to Robyn Ross from TV Guide for letting me know that you can vote for “Temperance Brennan” in the category “Sexiest Smart Chick” here until Friday!

David Boreanaz and “Bones” creator Hart Hanson report that the series has just received its season 4 renewal for 20 episodes — with the popular Fox network show looking likely to location abroad next season. “Some of the contenders are Spain, Monaco, Italy — it just depends on how it gets put together,” Hanson says of the show, which also stars Emily Deschanel.

First, however, there’s season 3 to complete. “Bones” heads back into its post-WGA-strike production Tuesday (March 25) to shoot six more episodes for the current season — and will return to the air with fresh episodes April 14.

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There is another Emily-related auction, this time you can get this cute little bear with tag signed by Emily. All proceeds from this auction will go toward ‘Avon Walks for Breast Cancer’. Click image below to find out more:

So the auction is over and the highest bids were: $36 for the dalmatian bowl and $100 for the bowl with doggie footprints, great work!

Thanks to Jeff Blodgett from SPCA (Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals) for e-mailing me that Emily designed and signed two cute pet bowls! You can buy both on e-Bay!

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I opened another fansite:

A deal has been struck between the major media companies and the Writers Guild of America to end the writers’ strike, former Walt Disney chief executive Michael Eisner revealed on CNBC.

“It’s over,” Eisner said. “They made the deal, they shook hands on the deal. It’s going on Saturday to the writers in general.”

Eisner, speaking live on CNBC’s “Fast Money,” seemed to hesitate initially about whether it was possible that the writers could still reject the agreement, but finally suggested the deal’s acceptance was inevitable.

“A deal has been made, and they’ll be back to work very soon,” Eisner said, adding, “I know a deal’s been made. I know it’s over.”

Eisner did not elaborate on terms of the agreement. He said he expects most of the media companies affected by the strike to have “small” write-downs as a result of the deal. Eisner said the deal was struck last Friday.
As a result of studio cutbacks, however, many of the writers who went on strike are unlikely to return to the same big-money contracts they’d had as individuals with the studios, Eisner said.

Thanks Emma for letting me know that there is brand new interview with executive producer of ‘Bones’ Scott Williams. I chose most important parts from the interview about writers’ strike and ‘Bones’, for the full version visit Fan Bolt.

Not a lot of people really know exactly what the writers’ strike is about. Can you explain exactly what is that the writers are wanting and who they dealing with?
Foremost among my union’s very reasonable demands, or basically “the real issue”, is what’s being called New Media, i.e. the Internet. What’s “new” about the Internet? Not much, especially since the companies we’re striking against have been making money off it for some time. Companies presently re-run episodes of the shows we write on their websites, which earn them money through download costs and advertising. We’re paid nothing for those downloads and they want to keep it that way. This is the most critical negotiation since the dawn of television, since the Internet represents a new dawn, a radical change in the way people watch shows and movies. In the next ten years, your TV at home will be a computer screen. If the companies get their way, writers, directors and actors will no longer be making residuals on reruns of their material. This is the same as a rock band not being paid when the label sells their CD or an author not being paid when the publisher sells his/her book. At present, the companies have made a deal with the Director’s Guild, so it appears they now at least admit that we’re due compensation for re-use of our material. The question is: Will it be a fair share? The companies will make many billions on the Internet in the next few years. We’re asking 2.5% for having created the work that makes those billions. Hopefully, they’ll realize that’s not asking too much and we can all (writers, actors, directors and crew) go back to work.

Do you provide any insight into how much longer we can expect the strike to last? Do you believe the networks will have to cave at some point?
I have to hope and pray that the companies will do the right thing before the Oscars. If not, this could drag on for many months, which no one wants at all. It would so be devastating to so many people, I don’t know how the economy would recover.

After the strike does end, how long will it take for new episodes to be written and how long before they air?
We have a few scripts that aren’t far from being ready to shoot. Best case scenario, we could be ready to resume shooting two weeks after we return to work.

In movies, our heroes get together at the end. It’s left to the audience’s imaginations what happens next. On TV, your left with two characters in a whole new relationship than the one you’ve come to love and appreciate.
We did finally let Booth and Brennan kiss in that Christmas episode I mentioned before. And Emily and David played the hell out of it. All the feelings, the denial, the suppressed attraction, it was all right there in their eyes. But we left it unrequited, where it belonged. To paraphrase Hart, until their current relationship starts boring people, why mess with it? But he always smiles when he says it. So you never know. At any moment, we could surprise you.

What do the ”Bones” fans mean to you? Do you have had any fan encounters?
Bones has the best fans I’ve ever been around. They tend to be smart and funny. It’s a lot of fun to know that what you write is appreciated by audiences. Their praise for our actors and their characters is praise for us, since we put the words in their mouths and craft the mysteries their solving.

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