12-19-2007, 02:31 PM
. . .from it's sister station USA. . .
'Monk' Tidies Up NBC Schedule
NBC is turning to its cable sibling USA to help fill out its midseason schedule.
The broadcast network will repurpose episodes of USA's popular shows "Monk" and "Psych" on Sunday nights beginning in March. Both series are set to return with new episodes in January.
"This is an excellent opportunity to showcase these two critically acclaimed cable hits," NBC co-chairman Marc Graboff says. "It's a win-win situation. The shows, both produced by our own Universal Media Studios, receive additional exposure while providing great programming for NBC."
They'll also fill a good-sized hole, brought on by the writers' strike, in NBC's schedule. The network will fill the first few Sundays of 2008 with a patchwork of specials and movies (the Golden Globes and the "Knight Rider" movie/pilot, for instance), but beyond that no firm plans were in place.
NBC will also repurpose episodes of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," which moved its first run to USA this season, on Wednesday nights starting next month.
"Monk," which stars Emmy winner Tony Shalhoub as a detective with obsessive-compulsive disorder, will be getting its second go-round on a broadcast network. Early in its life, episodes were repurposed on ABC (whose corporate sibling Touchstone TV is also a producer of the show).
Both it and "Psych," which stars James Roday as a police consultant who lets the cops think he's psychic -- although he's just really observant -- are strong performers for USA. "Monk" averaged close to 5 million viewers a week in its most recent summer run, while "Psych" pulled in better than 4 million.
'Monk' Tidies Up NBC Schedule
NBC is turning to its cable sibling USA to help fill out its midseason schedule.
The broadcast network will repurpose episodes of USA's popular shows "Monk" and "Psych" on Sunday nights beginning in March. Both series are set to return with new episodes in January.
"This is an excellent opportunity to showcase these two critically acclaimed cable hits," NBC co-chairman Marc Graboff says. "It's a win-win situation. The shows, both produced by our own Universal Media Studios, receive additional exposure while providing great programming for NBC."
They'll also fill a good-sized hole, brought on by the writers' strike, in NBC's schedule. The network will fill the first few Sundays of 2008 with a patchwork of specials and movies (the Golden Globes and the "Knight Rider" movie/pilot, for instance), but beyond that no firm plans were in place.
NBC will also repurpose episodes of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," which moved its first run to USA this season, on Wednesday nights starting next month.
"Monk," which stars Emmy winner Tony Shalhoub as a detective with obsessive-compulsive disorder, will be getting its second go-round on a broadcast network. Early in its life, episodes were repurposed on ABC (whose corporate sibling Touchstone TV is also a producer of the show).
Both it and "Psych," which stars James Roday as a police consultant who lets the cops think he's psychic -- although he's just really observant -- are strong performers for USA. "Monk" averaged close to 5 million viewers a week in its most recent summer run, while "Psych" pulled in better than 4 million.
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