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Monk Picked Up for Seasons 5 & 6 Source: USA Network
January 12, 2006
USA Network announced today that Monk, the award-winning original series starring Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Award winner Tony Shalhoub, has been picked up for seasons five and six, with a 16 episode order per season. Additionally, USA has picked up the back-end strip rights to Monk from NBC Universal Television Distribution. Beginning in 2008, USA will strip all six seasons of the show, totaling 93 episodes. The announcement was made jointly by Jeff Wachtel, USA's executive vice president, original programming and Jane Blaney, USA's senior vice president, programming.
"'Monk' is the cornerstone of USA's original programming," said Wachtel. "It remains one of the highest-rated series in basic cable history. We are so proud to bring it to the next level."
"We are thrilled to keep such an acclaimed and beloved series in our stable of programming," added Blaney. "'Monk' is such a consistent performer, we are confident that it will have a long, successful life on USA for many years to come."
Tony Shalhoub (Big Night, Wings, Men in Black) has earned two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and two SAG Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his portrayal of Adrian Monk, a brilliant detective who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Monk's psychological disorder costs him his position as a legendary homicide detective on the San Francisco Police Force. Due to the tragic unsolved murder of his wife, Monk has developed an abnormal fear of germs, heights, crowds and virtually everything else, which provides an unusual challenge to solving crimes ... not to mention his day-to-day existence. Traylor Howard (Two Guys and a Girl, Me, Myself and Irene), Ted Levine (Heat, Moby Dick) and Jason Gray-Stanford (Taken, A Beautiful Mind) also star.
Monk is executive produced by David Hoberman, Andy Breckman, Tony Shalhoub and Randy Zisk. Fern Field and Tom Scharpling serve as co-executive producers. Anthony Santa Croce and David Breckman are producers. Monk is from NBC Universal Television Studio in association with Mandeville Films and Touchstone Television.
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"If Chuck is Solo, Larkin is his Fett!" - Morgan
Great episode last night. Monk bumps into a woman on a sidewalk and becomes obsessed with finding her. He doesn't know why and he can't get to sleep until he figures out who she is and why he's drawn to her.
This is my favorite show! Been watching for 4 or 5 years now! I too love Natalie way better than Sharona!!! BIM...that finale was cool when he finally met the cab driver chick! Didn't even see that one coming. Cool!
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Someone said Fair Warning man...
Lord strike that poor boy down...
USA Orders More Monk Source: Variety
February 19, 2008
USA Network has greenlit a seventh season of "Monk" and will use the Tony Shalhoub starrer to anchor an aggressive summer schedule of originals, reports Variety.
This summer the NBC-owned cable channel will have fresh episodes of no less than seven series -- a number unlikely to be surpassed by any other cable channel, according to USA executive VP of original programming Jeff Wachtel.
In addition to "Monk" -- which will return with new episodes in May -- Wachtel plans to run fresh episodes of "Psych," "The Starter Wife," "Burn Notice" and newcomer "In Plain Sight" during the warm weather months. A new batch of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" episodes, originally slated for March, has been pushed to summer because of the Writers Guild strike.
The seventh series on USA's summer slate has yet to be decided. USA expects to greenlight a couple of pilots in the next few months with the aim of launching one of them as a series in the summer.
Despite "Monk's" value to USA, the show's pricetag could make the seventh season the last.
"We have to be thinking of that," Wachtel said. Andy Breckman is "starting to wrap up the show's mythology if this is, in fact, the final season."
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The first half of the season finale was great, but it did feel like loose ends were starting to get tied up...
Monk is closer than he's ever been to getting to the bottom of his wife's murder.
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