A darkly amusing procedural with humor, heart and character, featuring Dr. Temperance Brennan, a highly skilled forensic anthropologist who works with FBI Agent Seeley Booth on murder investigations when the standard methods of identifying a body are useless. Brennan's special expertise lies in her uncanny ability to read clues left behind in the victim's bones. The series is inspired by real-life forensic anthropologist and best-selling novelist Kathy Reichs.



We had the pleasure of interviewing Scott Williams who is not only a writer for the series, but also a co-executive producer for the hit series. He talked with us about the series, the writers' strike, and the famous Moonlighting curse.



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.