The Finder (American TV series)
The Finder was an American procedural drama television series created by Hart Hanson that ran on Fox from January 12, 2012 to May 11, 2012. The series originally aired on Thursdays at 9:00 pm, and moved to Fridays at 8:00 pm beginning April 6, 2012. It is a spin-off of another Fox television series, "Bones", where the backdoor pilot, a season six episode entitled "The Finder", aired in April 2011. It is loosely based on "The Locator" series of two books by Richard Greener. On May 9, 2012, Fox cancelled the series after one  season. Development and production. Fox developed a quasi spin-off series for "Bones" that was built around a character introduced in the sixth season. Production on the episode featuring The Locator began in February 2011, with the episode airing in April. The series was created by "Bones" creator/executive producer, Hart Hanson, and based on "The Locator" series of two books written by Richard Greener: "The Knowland Retribution", and "The Lacey Confession". The character of Walter is an eccentric but amusing recluse in high demand for his ability to find anything. He is skeptical of everything. He suffered brain damage  after surviving a roadside bomb explosion, which explains his constant paranoia and compulsion to find things—and for asking offensive, seemingly irrelevant questions to get to the truth. Production on the episode began in early 2011. Creator Hart Hanson posted on Twitter (in a humorous manner) regarding the notes he got from the network, "I received studio notes on the "Bones" spin-off idea. They want it to be better. Unreasonable taskmasters. Impossible dreamers. Neo-platonists." In the episode, the main characters of "Bones" travel to Key West, Florida, where "The Finder" is said to take place. Geoff Stults was  cast as the lead character with Michael Clarke Duncan and Saffron Burrows (as Ike Latulippe, bartender and pilot) in supporting roles. The three characters were introduced in episode 19 of season 6. "The Finder" was picked up for the 2011–12 season on May 10, 2011, with an order of 13 episodes. The series premiered midseason 2012, airing on Thursdays at 9:00 pm ET, occupying the "Bones" time slot when it is on hiatus. Saffron Burrows did not appear beyond the backdoor pilot episode, leaving the series, because the network decided to re-conceive the role. Mercedes Masöhn and Maddie Hasson  joined the cast as the two female leads. Masohn plays Isabel Zambada, a Deputy U.S. Marshal; and Hasson plays Willa, a juvenile delinquent who helps with their investigations. Broadcast. In Canada, the show was simsubbed against the Fox broadcast in most areas on the Global Television Network from January 12, 2012. It premiered in New Zealand on TV3 NZ on March 22, 2012, in Australia on Network Ten from June 25, 2012 and in the UK on the Universal Channel on July 11, 2012 Australia's Network Ten only aired three episodes before pulling the series from the schedule, and  lost broadcast rights in March 2016 without airing the remaining episodes. The order of the episodes that aired differs from the order produced and intended. This does create some discontinuity in the events of the show, such as Timo and Leo meeting for the first time in the episode 'The Conversation', despite the two having met and conversed in previously aired episodes, or the mention of Willa not having access to the internet in the same episode, despite her probation officer allowing it two episodes before. The following list of episodes is the show's original order with each episode 's televised order in parenthesis. 1. Pilot (#01) 2. The Last Meal (#09) 3. A Cinderella Story (#03) 4. Swing and a Miss (#04) 5. Bullets (#02) 6. The Conversation (#10) 7. The Great Escape (#05) 8. Life After Death (#08) 9. Little Green Men (#06) 10. Eye of the Storm (#07) 11. Voodoo Undo (#12) 12. The Inheritance (#11) 13. The Boy with the Bucket (#13)