The Finder is an American procedural drama television series created by Hart Hanson that ran as a midseason replacement on Fox from January 12, 2012, to May 11, 2012.

[2] It is a spin-off of another Fox television series, Bones (also created by Hanson), 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 (The Knowland Retribution and The Lacey Confession) by Richard Greener.

[3][4] Fox developed a quasi-spin-off series for Bones that was built around a character introduced in the sixth season.

[8] Geoff Stults was cast as the lead character with Michael Clarke Duncan and Saffron Burrows (as Ike Latulippe, bartender and pilot) in supporting roles.

[12] The series premiered midseason 2012, airing on Thursdays at 9:00 pm ET, occupying the Bones time slot when it is on hiatus.

[1] Saffron Burrows did not appear beyond the backdoor pilot episode, leaving the series, because the network decided to reconceive the role.

[14] 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[28] on July 11, 2012[29] 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.