Why not start off a glorious spring week — a week that continues the welcome rollout of shows returning from long strike hiatus — with some positive thoughts? Starting with the return of Bones to Fox’s schedule. For those keeping track in this confusing midseason, Mondays are now the new Tuesdays for Fox. And once House kicks back in with new episodes starting April 28 (a House repeat airs next Monday), Mondays will almost feel like the new Thursdays with so many choices on the suddenly overstuffed night, as Fox’s first-rate drama combo faces ABC’s blazing-hot Dancing with the Stars, CBS’ terrific comedy lineup and the ever-popular CSI: Miami, as well as a cult fave in the CW’s returning Gossip Girl and NBC’s ubiquitous Deal or No Deal. Whew.But back to Bones, one of TV’s most purely enjoyable procedural crime dramas. Yes, there are icky remains to deal with (a body boiled in a sulfurous mud pit), but the fun of Bones is in the playful in...
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John Francis Daley, Bones
As if the smartest geek-squad on TV needed another partner in crime-solving, John Francis Daley returns to Bones (Mondays, 8 pm/ET on Fox) tonight as Dr. Lance Sweets, now a permanent member of the show's crime-cracking family. Daley clues us in on where the show's big mystery arc is headed and tells us about his character's lady troubles. Sounds like a problem the team won't be using science to solve.
TVGuide.com: So your character's name is Dr. Sweets. Is that supposed to say something about him?John Francis Daley: I think it's just one of those goofy names that they can all harass me with. It's probably a name that my character tried to change at some point, but he didn't want to disgrace his dad so he didn't.
TVGuide.com: He does at least seem like the
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John Francis Daley in Bones by Isabella Vosmikova/Fox
Freaks and Geeks alum John Francis Daley (seen more recently, if fleetingly, on Kitchen Confidential) has been added to the series-regular cast of Bones as Dr. Lance Sweets, the FBI-appointed therapist who has been counseling Brennan and Booth.... Designing woman Annie Potts has been cast as Hairspray hoofer Nikki Blonsky's mom in the upcoming Lifetime movie Queen-Sized.... James Caan has landed the role of the don who hires Alyssa Milano as a courier in another Lifetime pic, Wisegal. — Ben Katner
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John Francis Daley (Freaks and Geeks, Kitchen Confidential) has joined Bones in the recurring role of a therapist.... Also per the Reporter, David Blue (a guest star during Season 1 of Dirt) is in final talks with Ugly Betty to fill the recurring role of Marc's potential new love interest.... Jack Carpenter will star in the Comedy Central pilot Held Up as well as play Lauren Ambrose's ex-boyfriend in Fox's midseason series The Return of Jezebel James.More TVGuide.com casting news: Smallville Gets "Fierce" with Top Model Champ, One Tree Hill Adds Another Beautiful Person, Julianna Margulies "Marries" Aidan Quinn
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Up-to-the-minute casting news for the upcoming pilot season, courtesy of Variety and the Hollywood Reporter:• Why didn't we see this coming a mile away? Lucy Lawless has scored the role of "ruthless, bitchy" Tanya in ABC's Football Wives. UPDATE: Speaking of BSG.... Some fresh Ausiello scoopage!• CSI's Louise Lombard has landed the title role in Judy's Got a Gun, ABC's drama about a woman juggling single motherhood with her job as a detective. I like to think of it as "Close to Homicide."• 24 alumna Sarah Clarke is Famke Janssen's younger sister and best bud in NBC's drama about a female cop.• Bridgette Wilson-Sampras is (kinda of course) a promiscuous neighbor in ABC's Mr. & Mrs. Smith.• Ana Claudia Talancón (The Crime of Father Amaro) has the title role in Whitney, HBO's comedy about a beautiful, self-confident woman who manipulates men.• Big Day's Miriam Shor has joined CBS' 1970s-set Swingtown.• John Francis Daley (Kitchen Confidential...
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Surface
Our favorite star-crossed Loch Ness Monster hunters are back together this week, hot on the trail of the Big Bad Specimen A that Laura managed to tag last time. Seriously, if these two aren't MFEO (that's Made For Each Other) in their obsessive-compulsive Captain Ahab routine, I don't know who is. When Rich gets a load of Laura's shrine-o'-newspaper-clippings, he tells her, "I thought I'd gone overboard." Guess what, Surface cast? I'm instituting a dollar-a-pun rule — it's a crisp greenback in the jar every time you spout a bit of cutesy, water-related dialogue. (Uh-oh. I don't owe a buck for "spout," do I?) After some death-defying highway hot-doggery, the pair manage to score their first above-water sighting — alongside an entire marina full of tourists. We've got monster on tape! Oh wait, no we don't. Thanks a lot, electromagnetic superpowers. Whose side are you on, anyway?
Hip! Hip! Hooray for the B-story: Nim's loose in the Piggly Wiggly! Now this is the sort of
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John Francis Daley in Waiting...
John Francis Daley has a lot on his plate. TV-wise, he's currently costarring as Jim, the easily mocked restaurant worker on Fox's Kitchen Confidential (which returns Nov. 7, after the baseball playoffs). And right now, he's also cooking up a storm as Mitch, the shy, easily abused trainee in the film Waiting..., which follows the generally unsanitary antics found at ShenaniganZ, a restaurant chain that happens to rhyme with Bennigan's. Ironically, the 20-year-old actor can't cook anything beyond basic pasta, but he served up some tasty answers to our questions.
TVGuide.com: There are similarities between your characters in Waiting... and Kitchen Confidential. Are you now
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I have new respect for Bradley Cooper as an actor. He was superannoying as Will on Alias, and then this summer he was a total jackass in Wedding Crashers. So the fact that he doesn't drive me crazy on this show, based on Anthony Bourdain's book of the same name, is a significant accomplishment. Cooper plays Jack (Bourdain), a chef who's given a chance to redeem himself after hitting rock bottom. In a very short time he has to put together a reputable kitchen staff for a new, trendy restaurant. And you know what that means, dontcha? Yeah, cue the Ocean's 11 music!
Weird coincidence of the night: This show has Nicholas Brendon from Buffy and John Francis Daley from Freaks and Geeks; meanwhile, How I Met Your Mother has Alyson Hannigan and Jason Segel, who are — here it comes — from Buffy and Freaks and Geeks, respectively. Did you just get chills? No? Oh. Well, how about now? Still no? Wh
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