Bones will lead new investigations: Emily Deschanel star of a new detective series

This time the actress will play a psychologist turned profiler who revolutionized the methods of investigating murderers.

If David Boreanaz recently told us that he was ready to remake Bones with Emily Deschanel, this is clearly not in the actress’s plans.

After 12 seasons and nearly 250 episodes spent in the shoes of Temperance Brennan in Bones, where she was also producer and director, Emily Deschanel is preparing to return as headlining a new project for NBC. The 49-year-old star has somewhat disappeared from the radar since the end of the drama in 2017. But she will return this year in a new detective series, as yet untitled.

The pilot was ordered in January and is based on the real-life work of internationally renowned profiler and author Dr. Ann Burgess. In this plot, Emily Deschanel will play Professor Georgia Ryan, a pioneering psychologist who is shaking up the field of criminology by focusing her investigations on the victim rather than the criminal, in order to reveal clues that traditional methods miss. She will be a consultant for the FBI to solve the most mysterious and elusive cases. Like in the time of Bones, but using psychology and sociology to solve murders, instead of anthropology to make the bones of the victims speak…

If the project leads to a series, Emily Deschanel will go back on a mission in prime time on American TV, in an old-fashioned procedural.

Note that his side, David Boreanaz, his former on-screen partner, was recently chosen for the pilot of the reboot of The Rockford Files, another crime series.

The two exes from Bones could therefore face each other during the 2026-2027 television season.