"Sleepy Hollow" fans and "Bones" fans unite! With Halloween fast approaching, what better way to treat their fans by announcing that the two shows are doing a crossover as a celebration of this year's spooky holiday!
As reported by Entertainment Weekly, tonight, a Halloween crossover event that features Booth (David Boreanaz) and Brennan (Emily Deschanel) stumbling upon a headless 18th century corpse thereby attracting the attention of "Sleepy Hollow's" Abbie Mills (Nicole Beharie) and Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison).
In a report by Zap2It, "Bones" executive producer Jonathan Collier said, "It's intrinsically harder to put 'Sleepy Hollow' in 'Bones' because we don't acknowledge that the supernatural exists." He added, "For our characters, it is not a reality, and for 'Sleepy Hollow's', both science and the supernatural exist. So we had to have a story where both elements can co-exist."
In addition, Clifton Campbell, executive producer for "Sleepy Hollow," said, "That was the tightrope act that they had to pull off," "We were able to put our heads together and come up with a terrestrial crime that on second look, had a supernatural bent that we were then able to take off on in our hour and solve on our side of it. But it was challenging, I'm sure, for those guys to try and deal with the realities of our show inside of their own."
Expanding more about the coming episode, Collier talked about how their show's advantage was the fact that they get to use these very well developed and fully realized characters from the other series and bringing them to their show, adding that "It wasn't like we were starting from scratch."
The fans aren't the only ones excited for this crossover, as according to the New York Times, pundits are also receiving it rather well. The crossover episode was described as amusing and even a little thought-provoking.
Although it's not exactly the smoothest series combination and obviously a gimmick to raise the ratings for both shows, it still managed to make them interesting and garner praise.
And though both shows deal with the macabre, it's easy to spot the differences on the genre as "Bones" is a crime-cop series and "Sleepy Hollow" is a horror-fantasy. Moreover, the writers of the show will have a good time pitting the scientific processes of "Bones" against the supernatural elements of "Sleepy Hollow."
But ultimately, it's really the fans who will benefit and definitely enjoy this crossover episode. Catch the two-part "Bones/Sleepy Hollow" crossover when it airs tonight beginning at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.
