Star World brings 'MONK', hits TV screens today

Star World brings to television, Monk, an undeniably brilliant crime series, starting tomorrow, 11th December, 9pm. Each episode is packed with unconventional, original and hilarious storylines, featuring TV’s most orginal  sleuth ever, Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) as the charming yet cantankerous detective with OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder).

Monk is a detective afraid of the dark, a gumshoe afraid of gum. He has no problem cracking a case - as long as it doesn't involve heights or germs, and is in close proximity to his apartment. Other than solving his wife's murder, Monk would like nothing more than to gain back his position on the San Francisco police force, but he tries to pull himself together and get back to solving crimes full time?

The dramedy detective mystery television series  follows former police detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub), whose photographic memory and amazing ability to piece together tiny clues made him a local legend, has suffered from intensified obsessive-compulsive disorder and a variety of phobias since the unsolved murder of his wife, Trudy, in 1997. Now on psychiatric leave from the San Francisco Police Department and working as a freelance detective/consultant on difficult cases, Monk hopes to convince his former boss, Captain Leland Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine), to allow him to return to the force.

The once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, Monk developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Consumed by peculiar obsessions and wracked with hundreds of phobias (including but certainly not limited to germs, heights, and even milk), Monk lost his badge and struggles with even the simplest everyday tasks.