But the way Fox wants you to think of it is, apparently, as a mid-to-low end strip club that is very welcoming of lady clientele.

The network's "edgy" new redband promo (below) features the whole Fox gang, including the stars of House, Bones, Lie to Me and Fringe out for a night watching women disrobe down to their underwears. It's an interesting piece of positioning; many networks attempt to subliminally communicate that "if you watch our shows we will provide you with low cost sex," but generally they get this message across by working cheerleaders washing cars and high-price brothels into their plot lines and using the flimsiest excuses possible to put models into bikinis. Few just come out and say, Hey, we're a very affordable strip club!

And what about the ladies in the audience? What's in it for them? Well as the promo demonstrates, everyone can have fun watching women take their clothes off. Fringe's Anna Torv almost gets to make out with a stripper! And the Bones cast get to revive their old favorite geek joke reference to the Broken Cowgirl position.

"No shirts. No shoes. No problemo" read the closing credits, and from now on, when I want to party naked, it's going to be straight to Fox for me.

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Bones star David Boreanaz engaged in a friendly game of keep away with a photographer at the Monte Carlo TV festival. Quickly, a group of other photographers formed a circle around Boreanaz and began to chant "keep away" in French. The photographer pleaded with Boreanaz to return the camera since it was his only camera. When that didn't work, the photog told a story about how the camera had been given to him by a girl who had a crush on him back in high school. Unfortunately for the photog, the story sounded like pure gibberish to Boreanaz, due to the fact that he decided to take Spanish in high school instead of French. Soon after, the principal of the TV festival came by and broke up the game, dragging Boreanaz by the ear into his office, where he threatened to call Boreanaz's parents if he kept the bad behavior up.

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