Editing USA Network (section)

===Vivendi ownership (2002–2004)===
In May 2002, USA Networks sold its non-shopping television and film assets (including USA Network, the Sci-Fi Channel, Trio, USA Films (which was rechristened as [[Focus Features]]) and [[Universal Television#Studios USA Television|Studios USA]]) to [[Vivendi|Vivendi Universal]] for $10.3 billion.<ref>{{Cite web|last=L.A. Times Archives|date=May 8, 2002|title=Vivendi Completes USA Deal|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-may-08-fi-vivendi8-story.html|access-date=December 3, 2021|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref> USA and the other channels were folded into Vivendi's Universal Television Group.

In July 2002, the channel debuted ''[[Monk (TV series)|Monk]]'', a 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. It became one of USA Network's first breakout hit series, and ran for eight seasons until it ended on December 4, 2009.