USA Network premieres “Monk” for its sixth season

By Stone Martindale Jul 15, 2007, 2:41 GMT

Tony Shalhoub - Los Angeles, CA © Glenn Harris / Photorazzi

“Monk” is the critically acclaimed original series starring Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG award winner Tony Shalhoub, which premiered season six on USA Network Friday, July 13, 2007 at 9:00PM/8:00 Central.

Tony Shalhoub has earned three 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 , Ted Levine and Jason Gray-Stanford also star.

Guest stars a-plenty this season, with Sarah Silverman (“The Sarah Silverman Program,” “The School of Rock”) as Adrian’s biggest fan – and sometime stalker, Marcie Maven; Sharon Lawrence (“Desperate Housewives,” “NYPD Blue”) as Capatin Stottlemeyer’s girlfriend, Linda Fusco; and Tim Bagley (“Knocked Up,” “According to Jim”) as Monk’s nemesis, Harold Krenshaw.

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Also guest-starring this season are Alfred Molina (“SpiderMan 2,” “The Da Vinci Code”), David Koechner (“The Office,” “Anchorman”), Diedrich Bader (“The Drew Carey Show,” upcoming in “Balls of Fury”), Angela Kinsey (“The Office,” upcoming in “License to Wed”), Gail O'Grady (“Boston Legal,” “NYPD Blue”), Vincent Ventresca (“Invisible Man,” “Romy and Michele's High School Reunion”), Donal Logue (“The Knights of Prosperity,” “Grounded for Life”), rap stars Snoop Dogg (“Starsky & Hutch,” “The L Word”) and Kurupt (“Johnson Family Vacation,” upcoming in “A Day in the Life”), as well as Emmy Clarke (“My House in Umbria,” “Fur”) as Julie Teeger and Stanley Kamel (“Inland Empire,” “Mister Sterling”) as Dr. Charles Kroger.

As season six kicks off, Monk is forced to help his biggest fan (Silverman) when she is accused of a bizarre crime; Monk finds himself in a dangerous situation when he helps his psychiatrist's son follow a treasure map; when a man Monk sent to prison years earlier is cleared by new DNA evidence, Monk helps him rebuild his life;  Monk's friendship with Captain Stottlemeyer (Levine) is put to the test when Monk suspects the captain's girlfriend (Lawrence) of murder.

Monk is hired to clear the name of a famous rap star (Dogg) who is accused of murder; Monk must confront his prejudice against nudists when he's called to investigate a murder on a nude beach (guest-stars Molina and Bader); and Monk's world is turned upside-down when he learns a famous daredevil's secret identity is his archrival — Harold Krenshaw (Bagley, with guest-star Koechner).

Loyal fans have proven they're Monk-ish and practiced the not-so-ancient art of Monk Shui at http://Monk.USANetwork.com.

This season, they will become the stars of the Official Monk Site with two exciting new features.

Capitalizing on the popularity of Monk Bobblehead dolls, fans will share photos of themselves and the pint-sized Monk in the "Me and My Monk" gallery, as well as guess where fellow fans have taken their Bobblehead in the "Monk Across America" weekly quiz. And the "Create Your Own Monk Scene" feature will allow diehards to download a real Monk script, act out selected scenes and then share their video creations on the site to see.