Bones star David Boreanaz has confirmed that a seventh season of the show has been ordered.

The former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star, who plays Seeley Booth on the Fox show, used Twitter to break the news.

Logging on to cheer on his ice hockey team Philadelphia Flyers, he also wrote: "Oh, Season 7 is GO for Bones."

Fox has not yet commented but a formal announcement is expected in due course.

A spinoff called The Finder, which stars Geoff Stults as former military policeman Walter Sherman, is also in the works. His character has already been introduced in the main series.

Producer Stephen Nathan recently claimed that specific elements of the season finale were "up in the air" as a result of extra work to introduce Stults and his co-stars to audiences.

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True Blood actor Kevin Alejandro has signed up for a role in the season finale, which will be broadcast on May 19.

Bones airs on Thursdays at 9/8c on Fox.

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