After becoming the TV vampire of every girl's dream in the early part of the decade as the lead character on the popular Buffy the Vampire Slayer crossover hit Angel, actor David Boreanaz made the leap to Fox's crime drama Bones in 2005 to take on the role of special agent Seeley Booth. As Bones returns to the Fox airwaves for a fourth season on September 3 with a two-hour premiere, the new season punctuates the fact that since Angel closed up shop in 2004, David Boreanaz has been on television for almost a decade straight.

The day before the Season 4 premiere of Bones, which sees Boreanaz's character Booth and Emily Deschanel's Brennan head to London, England where they join their British counterparts in a high profile murder investigation, The Deadbolt's Troy Rogers conducted his own investigation on the premiere on a conference call to get the evidence from David Boreanaz himself.

David Boreanaz on how the Brits do the job and whether they do it differently than Booth and Brennan:

"I don’t think they did it differently, but they did it similarly with a different tactic. One of our focuses going into the London show that we worked on specifically was when we were around them - seeing the two of them, we kind of mirrored them. We looked at them and said, ‘Wow. That’s really us?’ That kind of helped with our connection and relationship with them."

Boreanaz on the return of Gravedigger:

"I think that’ll be good. That’s something that we kind of kept open-ended. That show was originally shot as a closed show and then they recut the ending and it’s become a big fan favorite. So we definitely have a visit from him again."

On the season ahead for Brennan and Booth:

"I think it’s, right off the bat, focusing on their relationship and how that affects how they solve crimes or how they move forward in whatever case they’re working on. Again, we honor and really support the character work. I mean that’s what we strive for on the show and it just kind of makes us different from other procedurals out there. It is character stuff and we love doing that kind of stuff and we balance it out with the procedural and the case.

"Again, the characters will get closer then farther away. I know Hart [Hanson] has some ideas for some fantasy episodes and getting the two of them in bed, to some extent, and how that will happen and what will happen. I think that’s how the fantasy episodes will play out as far as that’s concerned. But it’s just really working on our relationships and really supporting each other and maybe going into Booth’s past a little bit, seeing where he came from and seeing how that affects his relationship with her."

On the success of Bones:

"I think what’s great about Bones is that it’s been embraced by the critics and it’s been embraced by a following of people that have really supported us from the beginning, which, in retrospect, is the same with the other shows that I was on. I mean, you have to look at it in perspective - what network it was on, how well it was and what it did for that particular network at that particular time. So we pretty much still remain under the radar. I mean I still believe there’s a lot of growth for our show as far as not becoming too popular, but maintaining a nice steady climb, not only in the ratings but also with a new fan base that comes on every year for us.

"The fact that we were able to get it to TNT this year and expose it to more people and get them excited about season four, which I think will be good for us, I think the beauty of the show is its gradual increase and not really going straight to a top number one show. I mean, where can you go from there? It’s something to be said about that for the writers and something to be said for the production team and something to be said for the actors that put forth their time and effort in order to create a character and see that develop, rather than have it become so quick, because it hasn’t been an overnight quick thing for the show."

Boreanaz on having a good mix of action and comedy:

It’s a very fine line. There are a lot of moments that I’m always like, ‘David, you’re playing Booth a little bit too much over the top or too goofy.’ Those notes come to me sometimes because I bring in like 150% of his energy into scenes and it’s a lot easier to bring him down than it is to bring him up [laughs]. And again, it comes from the work we do with our acting coach, Ivana Chubbuck, who’s fantastic. And she’s an Academy Award winning coach and she allows us the ability to give us ideas that we take and give to the show and work in the moment. We work in those improvisational moments; we get scripts that don’t have specific moments or that Emily and I will put in.

"And that makes sense, because really it’s the characters that kind of pop and create the show that exists today and makes it better and fun to watch because of these moments, whether that is with a therapist or bringing someone in like Sweets and having him on as a full time regular. I mean giving someone couple’s counseling to deal with themselves in the workplace is phenomenal. I don’t think we've ever really seen that in television. It was very groundbreaking for us last year and it was a big plug for us. And to use him this season for criminology and investigation, interrogation scenes and him helping us out, just adds another cog or piece of the puzzle for our show. But for us it’s really about our relationships and our moments that we find and bring to the table and that’s how they get developed."

David Boreanaz on whether he’s a 007 fan like Booth:

"I’m not a big 007 fan. Not to say I’m overly crazy; I mean for me Bond was like a really big Roger Moore, because that was my Bond that I grew up with at the time I really got into James Bond. I do like the new James Bonds that they’re really kind of aggressive and a little bit darker than the other ones, but I’m not like huge fan of them. So that is just a character thing. It’s just the Walther PPK thing was something that while we’re in London we might as well play that up and it was just something that was played on."