Does anybody know why the new season is starting January 16th instead of sometime this summer?

http://www.usanetwork.com/series/monk/

January 16th it says.

Well, you don't have to watch it till summer if you don't want to...

Those jerks, giving it to us early.

A new season of Monk, a new season of The Shield, a new season of American Idol, and a new season of Average Joe?

It's going to be a January to remember, folks.

I get the feeling that Average Joe 2 won't be anything to remember....guess we'll see.

I would add CYE to that list.

you know they've pushed that back until March, right?

I do now.

They might as well have taken a ****** and put it straight up my ******* with a ******. Dang nab it!

Actually, isn't this sort of the second half of the 'current' season? They only showed around 9 episodes in the summer and said at that point it'd be returning in Jan.

You know, I think you're right. The South Park model.

Second “half”?

Obviously coming from a fan of SciFi, where there can be any number of “quadrants.”

There are, what, 4 to 6 “halves” of the regular season (not counting summer reruns)?

I believe there will be a "marathon" on New Years Day too!!

Thanks! I didn't discover this show until season 2 and have wanted to catch some of the first season eps. Yahoo TV has this schedule (note the times are in CST):

• Monk - "Mr. Monk and the Marathon Man"
USA, Thu Jan 01 05:00am CST
• Monk - "Mr. Monk and the Psychic"
USA, Thu Jan 01 06:00am CST
• Monk - "Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale"
USA, Thu Jan 01 07:00am CST
• Monk - "Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival"
USA, Thu Jan 01 08:00am CST
• Monk - "Mr. Monk and the Billionaire Mugger"
USA, Thu Jan 01 09:00am CST
• Monk - "Mr. Monk and the Other Woman"
USA, Thu Jan 01 10:00am CST
• Monk - "Mr. Monk Takes a Vacation"
USA, Thu Jan 01 11:00am CST
• Monk - "Mr. Monk and the Earthquake"
USA, Thu Jan 01 12:00pm CST
• Monk - "Mr. Monk Goes Back to School"
USA, Thu Jan 01 01:00pm CST
• Monk - "Mr. Monk Goes to the Ballgame"
USA, Thu Jan 01 02:00pm CST
• Monk - "Mr. Monk Goes to Mexico"
USA, Thu Jan 01 03:00pm CST
• Monk - "Mr. Monk Goes to the Circus"
USA, Thu Jan 01 04:00pm CST
• Monk - "Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man"
USA, Thu Jan 01 05:00pm CST
• Monk - "Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater"
USA, Thu Jan 01 06:00pm CST
• Monk - "Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect"
USA, Thu Jan 01 07:00pm CST
• Monk - "Mr. Monk Meets the Playboy"
USA, Thu Jan 01 08:00pm CST
• Monk - "Mr. Monk and the 12th Man"
USA, Thu Jan 01 09:00pm CST

Looks like 8 from season one and 9 from season two.

Mr monk meets the playboy was great. Do watch the scene where sherona confronts him about the nudie pics

Reminder: new season begins this Friday (3 days!)

Check your Tivo Season Passes. The new episode on 1/16 is marked incorrectly and if you have a "First Run Only" SP, Tivo will not record it.

Likewise, if you have it on "First Run and Repeats," you'll get a shitload of episodes because of the marathon.

Either way, you'll need to do some manual tweaking.

Once again with the USA/TiVo weirdness I was hoping it would be fixed by now.

Thanks for the info, I'm pretty sure Monk isn't showing up in my "to do" list.

Hmm. I have a First Run only SP, and I could have sworn I saw the episode in my To Do list last night. I'll have to verify this when I get home...

Yep, it was on my TiVo to do list, and my SP is set to record First Run only. :shrugs:

Appears to be a difference between standalone Tivos and DirecTV Tivos - SAs are okay, DTs aren't.

According to the Tivo forums, anyways...and I know my DT didn't have it set to record, I added it manually.

Steph

Yeah, I saw some people on the Tivo forums said that the episode showed up in their To-Do list on one day and then the next day it had vanished.

Weird.

Interesting. Do the DTV Tivos get their guide data from a different source than the SA's?

Thanks for the heads up.

I'll be sure to update my DirecTivo. Don't want to miss Monk.

Does anybody know if the episodes that are coming up are going to be new?
usanetwork.com has Mr. Monk and the Ariplane, Mr. Monk Goes Back to School, and Mr. Monk Goes to the Ball Game posted for January 16th. I thought they were going to be new shows. ABC has Mr. Monk Goes Back to School as the Season Premiere.
These aren't new!
What the Heck!!!!!