 USA and the other channels were folded into Vivendi's Universal Television Group.In July 2002, the channel debuted "Monk", which became one of USA Network's first breakout hit series.It is the comedy-drama police procedural that starred Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk, a former San Francisco police inspector-turned-consultant who suffers from various obsessive-compulsive behaviors that include the ability to pay attention to detail when solving crimes.