While USA renewed MONK this week for an eighth season, the network also revealed it will mark the final bow for the Tony Shaloub-helmed dramedy. Shaloub has played the obsessive-compulsive detective long enough to make up for being part of NBC’s Wings, which is saying something.
Monk has always been a series on diet pills, producing only 16 episodes per season, and this final season, which begins next summer, in June, will be the same. That’s just as Shaloub and company would have it.
All the key players are still in place for the final season of Monk, including Traylor Howard as Monk’s assistant, Natalie Teeger. No word yet on whether producers will mend fences and bring back Bitty Schram for one final bow as Monk’s original assistant, Sharona Fleming, but one can only hope.
Tags: Bitty Schram, diet pills, MONK, Tony Shaloub, Traylor Howard
im really really sad that MONK is ending wats next pysch?? PYSCH is just like monk they are the best two shows eva SOOO DONT CANCEL THEM!!!!!!
All we can say is we spend the entire off season waiting for the next season of Monk. My wife and I love Shaloub on Wings and watched weekly when we were first married. Now with a 13 and 10 year old, this is the kind of comedic entertainment we can all watch together. If Monk must end then I must say, thank you for two great series Mr. Shaloub. We are greatful for the laughs and tender moments you and both casts have acted out on the screen. We two look forward to what comes next for you and hope you are fortunate enough to create a winner like Monk again.
Sincerely,
The Thomas Family
from Tennessee