Fox digs up two-season renewal for its drama; license fees held up negotiations, but show will now stick around through 2011.
 
Two more seasons for Bones!
This is the week for great news and horrible news for all your favorite television programs. For every obituary for canceled shows, there's a disco-dance party for shows that get renewed. And for Bones fans, this dance party is downright epic.

Fox has renewed Bones and slotted it to remain on Thursday nights this fall… and probably next fall. The romantic comedy/police procedural/drama was given a two-season pickup, says Variety, placing it in Fox's schedule through 2011.

There was no doubt about Bones' return, so why did it take so long for an announcement? The late renewal notice was due to back-and-forth negotiations over the show's licensing fees between Fox (the network) and studio 20th Century Fox Television (the production studio).