Thanks to a stable schedule of popular newcomers (Glee and The Cleveland Show) and longer-running hits (House and Bones) as well as the highly rated World Series, Fox was the only major broadcast network to post a year-over-year uptick in the coveted demographic (14%, according The Nielsen Company).

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Yet in our house Mr. Bones had intimidated everyone.

NEWYORKER: Mr. Bones

Host Ophira Eisenberg invites in-studio guests and listeners alike to stretch their noggins, tickle their funny bones, and enjoy witty banter and guitar riffs from house musician Jonathan Coulton.

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Any mention of a problem with the house these days made Dad smile his Mr. Bones smile and roll his eyes.

NEWYORKER: Mr. Bones

Sohus' bones were unearthed in the back yard of his mother's former house a decade after he and his wife, Linda, disappeared.

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Set in a creaking old town house, the 15 rooms possess the original 19th-Century bones to offset their Rose Bowl-sourced and individually furnished interiors, a cosy of velvet settees, fringed lamps and sepia-toned writing paper.

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The wind was a black punishment, and his bones were rattling by the time he reached the back door of the big house.

NEWYORKER: Idols

The bones of John Sohus were unearthed in the backyard of his mother's former house in San Marino in 1995.

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