Brad Garrett by Jim Spellman/ WireImage.com, Dan Rather by Bennett Raglin/ WireImage.com
Well, would you look at this: I took a bunch of random exclusive casting scoops and packaged them into one very special Ausiello Report blog post. Enjoy! • Exercising the "Sarah Chalke Clause" in his 'Til Death contract, Brad Garrett has signed on to appear in Monk's July 18 season premiere. He'll play a handyman who helps Tony Shalhoub with his home renovations.• Also on the Monk front, Robert Loggia (Big, Mancuso, FBI, assorted mobster roles) has been cast as an aging boxer in "Mr. Monk Takes a Punch," a Season 7 episode slated to air in August. • Former CBS newsman Dan Rather is reprising his role as former CBS newsman Dan Rather on ABC's Dirty Sexy Money next season. This time 'round, he'll be interviewing Patrick Darling (Billy Baldwin) about his new book.• Superman's pledging a fraternity! And that's not even close to being the truth! In reality, Greek is casting a Clark Kent-type to play Rusty and Dale's new R.A. Got suggestions? Post 'em below!Woo-hoo! Ra...
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Tony Shalhoub in Monk by Peter Hopper Stone/USA Network Photo
Mere hours after last night's Nielsens came in, NBC revealed a slate which drops Monk and Psych from the network's Sunday lineup. (The Tony Shalhoub starrer had dropped 28 percent from its previous NBC airing, while Psych didn't even break four million viewers.) Thus ends the Peacock's experiment in repurposing USA Network content.For the short term, NBC will fill the two-hour block with back-to-back-to-back-to-back Office repeats, starting with "Fun Run" (Parts 1 and 2) and "Dunder-Mifflin Infinity" (Parts 1 and 2).Related:• Ratings for Sunday, May 4
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Hector Elizondo by Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage.com
Well, we kinda knew Monk couldn't go too long without an analyst, right? So, tragic as is the April 8 death of Stanley Kamel — aka the neurotic's Dr. Kroger — a USA Network spokesperson confirms to me exclusively that Hector Elizondo has been tapped to join Monk as Tony Shalhoub's new shrink. There's no word on how his character will be introduced, but he'll first turn up in the show's seventh season premiere on July 18.On a related note, Elizondo's hiring would seem to signal that CBS' Cane is a goner. So what's your take, peeps? Will you have a harder time adjusting to seeing Monk on someone else's couch than he'll have being on someone else's couch? Or do you remember Elizondo so fondly from Pretty Woman and The Princess Diaries that you'll actually be psyched to see him take a role on a show you actually watch? Share your thoughts below!
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Stanley Kamel, who played Dr. Charles Kroger on the USA series Monk, has died. He was 65.Access Hollywood reports that he was found in his Hollywood Hills home by his agents. Sources say Kamel suffered a heart attack.Kamel appeared in numerous TV roles over the past three decades, including as Rebecca Gayheart's father on Beverly Hills, 90210.A network representative said, "USA is deeply saddened by the news of Stanley Kamel’s passing. Stanley was an amazingly talented and extremely kind man, and an important member of the USA family. He will be sorely missed." — J.R. Whalen
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John Adams courtesy HBO Video
New releases announced today, March 25:HBO's John Adams will be coming out June 10 Monk - Season 6 will be coming out July 8 Psych - The Complete 2nd Season will be coming out July 8 Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items.
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Monk by Peter "Hopper" Stone/USA
Today’s Video Break: MonkEpisode Title: "Mr. Monk and the Other Woman"Season: 1Year: 2002 Why we love this episode: Our favorite obsessive-compulsive detective shows that he too is human under all that fanatical behavior when he becomes a smitten kitten for a woman involved in a murder case. Watch the video now! Your take: What's your favorite Monk OCD?
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Monk by Peter "Hopper" Stone/USA
USA Network has announced that Monk will return this summer for a seventh season that will anchor an aggressive slate of new programming for the NBC-owned cable network. "You might say we were obsessed with making this deal," Jeff Wachtel, USA's executive vice president of original programming, quips, alluding to star Tony Shalhoub's obsessive-compulsive character. "It's not easy to wash your hands of a show like Monk."But will the seventh season be the show's last? "We have to be thinking of that," Wachtel says. "[Producer Andy Breckman is] starting to wrap up the show's mythology if this is, in fact, the final season." In all, USA will debut new episodes of seven series this summer, including Monk, Psych, The Starter Wife, Burn Notice, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and two new series. — Mickey O'Connor
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Traylor Howard, Tony Shalhoub, Ted Levine and Scott Glenn, Monk
Well, he's no Jack Bauer. 24's tough-guy hero can withstand electrodes, knives and other unpleasant instruments of torture. But the obsessive-compulsive Adrian Monk? The mess of getting fingerprinted pretty much strains his limits.
But who says nice guys finish last? USA Network's Monk (tonight at 9 pm/ET) has topped the cable charts in recent weeks, and the two-part season finale, with Monk arrested and prison-bound on false murder charges, demonstrates why. A tribute to The Fugitive that includes a wrongful accusation, a relentless lawman's pursuit and — in a nod to that fabled, elusive one-armed man — a six-fingered killer, the finale combines the comedy and mystery that keeps Monk pulling in viewers after six seasons.
"In terms of the psychological and physical danger Monk's in," star Tony Shalhoub says, "t
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Tony Shalhoub by Gavin Bond/USA Network
New releases announced today, February 3:Eureka - Season 2 will be coming out June 17 Monk - Season 6 will be coming out June 10 Psych - The Complete 2nd Season will be coming out June 10 Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items.
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The strike-schedule shuffle continues for NBC, which in the wake of Deal or No Deal's mighty Monday numbers has pushed back the broadcast television port of Quarterlife almost two weeks. The online original was to arrive on NBC on Monday, Feb. 18, but now is moving to Sundays-at-9 beginning Feb. 26. As a result, Psych and Monk — the USA Network series that were to get Peacock repurposing starting March 2 — will now be held until Sunday, April 6, and air from 8 to 10 pm/ET. — Matt Mitovich
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