bitty schram-related stories
Posted Mar 25th 2009 9:05AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable/Satellite, Casting, Reality-Free

The final season of the show that made USA famous for something other than playing non-stop reruns of
Wings is turning into a reunion special. Or should I say a special reunion?
Bitty Schram, the actress who played Sharona, Adrian Monk's original partner in fighting crime on
Monk,
will return for an episode sometime during the show's eighth and final season.
This will mark her first appearance on the comedy-mystery since she mysteriously disappeared from the show halfway through the third season. It should also make for an interesting close to a series that has redefined the way the higher channels on the dial create and produce their own series.
Continue reading Sharona returning to Monk
Posted Sep 6th 2008 12:39PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Monk, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S07E07) Too often when a show reaches an anniversary, like say 100 episodes, the producers feel the need to mark the occasion with an extraordinary entry. That was what happened with
Monk.
To commemorate the 100th episode, they created Mr. Monk's 100th Case, and using a show within a show format, celebrated Adrian Monk, a modern day Sherlock Holmes. San Francisco's defective detective
Thank goodness it all worked! I was afraid we were going to get a clip-laden, down-memory-lane type of show with nothing remotely intriguing. No, writer Tom Scharpling and company were more clever than that.
Continue reading Monk: Mr. Monk's 100th Case