USA Today.(Television program review)

USA has distinguished itself in recent years as the oddball network--home of the misfits and safe haven for the dysfunctional. And that's not just the viewers. The network's slogan is "Characters welcome," as in "That guy's a real character." The best illustration of the slogan is "Monk"--the series itself, which is now in its seventh season, and the character Adrian Monk, a sad, annoying, touching, and inadvertently funny obsessive-compulsive former police detective, still played beautifully after all these years by Tony Shalhoub. The stable grew two years ago with "Psych," last summer with "Burn Notice," and this summer with "In Plain Sight." (USA also shows episodes ...