Emmy nominee Tony Shalhoub will portray obsessive-compulsive brilliant detective Adrian Monk for a seventh season of the USA dramedy, with Brad Garrett and Hector Elizondo as guest stars.

Veteran actor Hector Elizondo portrays in this new season Monk’s lucid, somewhat blunt new analyst, Dr. Bell, a man who is not afraid to tell the brilliant detective to move forward and stop poring over his obsessions.

Tony Shalhoub explained to the Boston Herald that unlike Dr. Kroger, Monk’s previous analyst played by Stanley Kamel, who passed away suddenly in April from a heart attack, Dr. Bell uses no “kid gloves.”

“Stanley would’ve been very, very proud to know an actor of Hector’s stature was coming in to take his place,” Shalhoub said.

Shalhoub first appeared on our small screens as the unusual detective in 2002, a man who suffered a nervous breakdown when his wife was murdered, developed an ever-growing number of phobias, obsessions and compulsions and refused to leave his house for three years.

Having somewhat overcome his deep anxiety, he now aids the San Francisco Police Department with the cases that are most tricky, exasperating his collaborators yet always solving the mysteries, in what has become his trademark mysterious style.

The role has earned Shalhoub three Emmy Awards for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series, as well as a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Two of the show’s more prominent guest stars have also received Emmy Awards, that is John Turturro and Stanley Tucci.

The present cast also includes Traylor Howard portraying his trusted assistant Natalie Teeger; Ted Levine as the brash Captain Leland Stottlemeyer; and Jason Gray-Stanford as Lieutenant Disher.