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The USA Network, let's face it, isn't anyone's go-to channel, but, still, I find it strange that not a single person has mentioned its show "Monk" to me in the year since it began. The series, which stars Tony Shalhoub, became so popular so quickly--it is to USA what "The Shield" has been to FX--that by last fall it qualified as one of the biggest basic-cable hits ever. You could attribute the Benedictine silence surrounding the first season of "Monk" to people's not wanting to admit that they're home on Friday nights at ten o'clock, if it weren't for the fact that each episode also aired a second time on weeknights on ABC. I myself was off duty during the entire first ...