TV is never slow to jump on real-life crime and tragedy for cop-show plot fodder. Writers for shows like "CSI" and especially "Law & Order" seem to start typing almost while the gunfire still echoes. However…when life imitates art TV is usually quick to step back. In April 2007, Fox postponed an episode of "Bones" about a college murder that was scheduled to air just two days after the Virginia Tech massacre. Now - weirdly close to the anniversary - Fox is finally putting the episode on the air tonight at 8.
"The Player Under Pressure" has Bones and Booth investigating the death of a college basketball star whose body is found crushed under the folding bleachers in the college gym. Doesn’t sound close to the Virginia Tech shootings by a disturbed student who then took his own life…but of course on TV no death is as simply as it initially […]
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