Monk To Start Final Season in Summer ’09

Jeff P. – Sr. Staff Writer

Say it ain’t so, Tony!

According to the USA Network, we will have to be bidding adieu to our favorite obsessive-compulsive detective after the eighth and final season of Monk starting this summer. There are only 16 episodes left!


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Monk - Recap & Review - Mr. Monk Fights City Hall

Monk
Mr. Monk Fights City Hall

Original Air Date: Feb 20, 2009

Jeff P. - Sr. Staff Writer
jeffp@thetwocentscorp.com

The prologue of the 7th season finale of Monk has a televised celebration of the destruction of an old parking garage. A new park for children is planned to replace the garage, but a surprise stay of execution happens when someone chains himself to a column inside the garage. That someone is Monk! And this happens to be the garage that Trudy was killed in.

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Monk - Recap & Review - Mr. Monk and the Magician

Monk
Mr. Monk and the Magician

Original Air Date: Feb 13, 2009

Jeff P. – TwoCents Staff Writer
jeffp@thetwocentscorp.com


This Friday the 13th, the opening for tonight’s Monk starts in Thailand. A drug dealer asks if the magician can make 70 kilos of heroin disappear from Thailand and appear onto the streets of San Francisco. I have a feeling that someone is going to end up unlucky in this one.

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Monk - Recap & Review - Mr. Monk and the Bully

Monk
Mr. Monk and the Bully

Original Air Date: Feb 6, 2009

Jeff P. - TwoCents Staff Writer
jeffp@thetwocentscorp.com

Natalie takes a phone call from a new client! (Which have been few and far between lately). The client’s name is Roderick Brody and Monk says he knew a Roderick Brody form his school days. The bad news? He was the school bully who used to pick on Adrian.

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Monk - Recap & Review - Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs

Monk
Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs

Original Air Date: Jan 30, 2009

Jeff P. – TwoCents Staff Writer
jeffp@thetwocentscorp.com

The Murder –
A high profile athlete and a woman get into a limo to continue a night of partying. After they arrive at the next stop, the driver takes the player’s playbook and makes a call to meet someone. He makes a copy of it and sells it to a man. The next day the player discovers this and confronts the driver and tells him he’ll be calling the authorities. Hearing this, the driver gets in a struggle with him and hits the player across the head with a crow bar killing him.

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Monk - Recap & Review - Mr. Monk And The Lady Next Door

Monk
Mr. Monk and the Lady Next Door

Original Air Date: Jan 23, 2009

Jeff P. – TwoCents Staff Writer
jeffp@thetwocentscorp.com

The Murder -

A security guard in a Guinness World Record Museum hears some noises and goes to check it out. He runs into the culprit who says, “I’ve been casing this joint all week… you were supposed to have been sleeping by now”. He pushes the guard over the railing and he gets impaled to death.

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Monk - Recap & Review - Mr. Monk on Wheels

Monk
Mr. Monk on Wheels

Original Air Date: 16 Jan 2009

Jeff P – TwoCents Staff Writer
jeffp@thetwocentscorp.com

Tonight we start with a murder-less opening, but not without a crime. A man sneaks up to steal a bicycle and during his getaway hits a pothole. Natalie and Monk happen to be in the area, and Natalie helps the guy get “his” bike back together. She soon realizes what’s happened when the rightful owner comes out running to retrieve the bike.

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Monk - Recap & Review - Mr. Monk and the Other Brother

Monk
Mr. Monk and the Other Brother

Original Air Date: 9 Jan 2009

Jeff P - Two Cents Staff Writer
jeffp@thetwocentscorp.com

This obsessive-compulsive writer wants you to know that it’s been just under 4 months since the last Monk. But who’s counting?

Welcome back Mr. Monk!

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Screen Actor's Guild Nominees Announced

The nominees for the Screen Actors Guild Awards are up! Following are the nominations for the television categories (this is a TV site, silly!).

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
a. BOSTON LEGAL (ABC)
b. DEXTER (Showtime)
c. HOUSE (Fox)
d. MAD MEN (AMC)
e. THE CLOSER (TNT)

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
a. 30 ROCK (NBC)
b. DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES (ABC)
c. ENTOURAGE (HBO)
d. THE OFFICE (NBC)
e. WEEDS (Showtime)

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The 15th Annual SAG Awards will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

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Monk - Recap & Review - Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized

Monk
"Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized"

Original Air Date: September 12, 2008

Jeff P. – TwoCents Staff Writer
jeffp@thetwocentscorp.com

Prologue:

A woman is in a jewelry store looking to trade in a piece for cash, but the storeowner thinks that the piece is too valuable for them to pay for. He agrees to try to look for a buyer, but it may take a week. She goes out to her car and we find out that she is Sally Larkin, a former actor, and she is going through a messy divorce. We hear a scream, and when the owner runs out, she is gone!

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Monk - Recap & Review - Mr. Monk's 100th Case

Monk
“Mr. Monk’s 100th Case”

Original Air Date: September 5, 2008

Jeff P. - TwoCents Staff Writer
jeffp@thetwocentscorp.com

After 6 plus wonderful seasons of Monk, it has reached it’s centennial episode. I’m surprised for Monk’s sake that they didn’t end the show on this nice, even number. (But I’m glad they didn’t).

The episode opens up with a show named ‘In Focus’ with James Novak. The subject of tonight’s episode is none other than Adrian Monk. Apparently Monk has solved 99 cases and is working on his toughest yet... searching for a serial killer.

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"Monk" Recap & Review - "Mr. Monk Falls in Love"

Monk
“Mr. Monk Falls in Love”

Original Air Date: August 22, 2008

Jeff P. - TwoCents Reviewer
jeffp@thetwocentscorp.com

The Murder –

Randy Disher and his date are standing outside a restaurant looking for a taxi. They notice one across the street and run over to catch it. After they realize the cab isn’t moving, they see the driver is dead with something sticking out of his neck.

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"Monk" Recap & Review - "Mr. Monk Goes Underwater"

Monk
“Mr. Monk Goes Underwater”

Original Air Date: August 15, 2008

Jeff P. – Two Cents Reviewer
jeffp@thetwocentscorp.com

The Murder –

We open this episode under the sea. Captain Whittaker is looking for his second in command. A Lieutenant comes to the bridge and tells him that he can’t find number 2, but his cabin door is locked. The Captain, Lieutenant, and others go to the door and call for him. They hear a gun shot, and break the door down. Lying on the floor is the XO, with a gunshot wound to his head. It is an apparent suicide.

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"Monk" Recap & Review - "Mr. Monk Takes a Punch"

Monk
“Mr. Monk Takes a Punch”

Original Air Date: August 8, 2008

Jeff P. – Two Cents Reviewer
jeffp@thetwocentscorp.com

The Murder –

The episode starts with a guy breaking into a gym and rigging up a boxing bag. He cuts a hole in the side and puts some C4 into it. The next day a trainer and a boxer come in to train. The boxer is about to hit the bag, but is stopped by a vagrant who was sleeping in the gym. The boxer gives him 10 dollars out of kindness, and before the vagrant leaves he punches the bag and it explodes.

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[Photo: USA Network Photo: Isabella Vosmikova]

"Monk" Recap & Review - "Mr. Monk Gets Lotto Fever"

Monk
“Mr. Monk Gets Lotto Fever”

Original Air Date: August 1, 2008

Jeff P. – Two Cents Reviewer
jeffp@thetwocentscorp.com

The Murder –
This week’s episode opens up with a lottery drawing and a host named Marisa. Soon after the drawing she is running from a man that we can’t see. She ran as far as she could, but her pursuer catches up to her and kills her, right behind a “Lucky Lottery” sign.

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"Monk" Recap & Review - "Mr. Monk and the Genius"

Monk
“Mr. Monk and the Genius”

Original Air Date: July 25, 2008

Jeff P. – Two Cents Reviewer
jeffp@thetwocentscorp.com

The Murder –

This week offers us a threatened murder. A woman named Linda comes in and asks Monk for help. Her husband is a chess champion and genius named Patrick. Apparently Patrick has told Linda that he has a foolproof murder planned…. HERS.

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"Monk" Recap & Review - "Mr. Monk Buys a House"

Monk
“Mr. Monk Buys a House”

Original Air Date: July 18, 2007

Jeff P. – Two Cents Reviewer
jeffp@thetwocentscorp.com


Just when we thought it was another lazy summer waiting for fall programming, we are blessed with the first episode of the new season of our favorite obsessive detective.

The Murder –

A nurse is trying to get information from an old man in a wheelchair. When she doesn’t get what she wants, she brings him up the stairs in his wheelchair, only to stand him up and push him back down the stairs to his demise.

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News on Monk, Psych and "quarterlife"

NBC announces a new premiere date for its critically acclaimed Internet series "quarterlife" from Monday, February 18 to Tuesday, February 26 (10-11 p.m. ET) before it settles into its new regularly scheduled day and time of Sundays (9-10 p.m. ET) beginning March 2.

As a result, "Monk" and "Psych," two hits from USA Network that were previously scheduled for their broadcast premiere on NBC on March 2 (9-11 p.m. ET), will now debut on Sunday, April 6 at 8-9 p.m. (ET) and 9-10 p.m. (ET), respectively.