Monk (TV series)

Monk is an American comedy-drama detective mystery televeesion series creatit bi Andy Breckman an starnin Tony Shalhoub as the eponymous chairacter, Adrian Monk. It oreeginally ran frae 2002 tae 2009 an is primarily a polis procedural series, an an aa exheebits comic an dramatic tones in its sploration o the main chairacters' personal lives. The series wis produced bi Mandeville Films an Touchstone Television in association wi Universal Television.

Monk
Genre	Polis procedural Comedy-drama Meestery
Creautit bi	Andy Breckman David Hoberman
Starnin	Tony Shalhoub Bitty Schram Jason Gray-Stanford Ted Levine Traylor Howard
Appenin theme	Instrumental theme bi Jeff Beal (series 1) "It's a Jungle Out There" bi Randy Newman (series 2–8)
Endin theme	Instrumental theme bi Jeff Beal (series 1) "It's a Jungle Out There" (instrumental) (series 2–8)
Kintra o oreegin	Unitit States
Oreeginal leid(s)	Inglis
No. o series	8
No. o episodes	125 (leet o episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Andy Breckman David Hoberman Tony Shalhoub (series 4–8) Tom Scharpling (series 5–8) Rob Thompson (series 6–8)
Camera setup	Film; Single-camera
Lenth	40–45 minutes
Production company(s)	Touchstone Television Mandeville Films USA Cable Entertainment (2002–04) Universal Network Television (2002–04) NBC Universal Television Studio (2004–07) Universal Media Studios (2007–08) Universal Cable Productions (2008–09)
Distributor	NBCUniversal Television Distribution
Release
Oreeginal network	USA Network
Pictur format	480i (NTSC), 1080i (HDTV)
Oreeginal release	12 Julie 2002 (2002-07-12) – 4 December 2009 (2009-12-04)
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The series debuted on Julie 12, 2002, on USA Network. It continued for aicht series, wi the final series concludin on December 4, 2009. The series held the record for the maist-watched scriptit drama episode in cable telly history frae 2009 throu 2012 (broken bi The Walking Dead) wi "Mr. Monk and the End – Part II", its series finale, wi 9.4 million viewers, 3.2 million o them in the 18–49 demografic.