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TNT Digging "Bones"

  • Variety, Friday, January 25, 2008 11:01 AM

TNT has snagged exclusive cable rights to the Fox series "Bones," a show in its third year that stars a female forensic anthropologist. And while neither the cable net nor distributor Twentieth TV would talk about license fees, the range is thought to be between $400,000 and $450,000 an episode.

TNT will get access to multiple weekly runs of "Bones" in the fall of 2009, but starting next week, the cable channel will also run it as a weekly series. Ken Schwab, senior vice president of programming for TNT and TBS, says the program fits TNT's profile of scripted police dramas like "The Closer" and "Saving Grace," and reruns of procedurals like "Cold Case," "Without a Trace" and "Law & Order."

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