[Official] NBC Knight Rider

[Rappy Veteran]

This week, Jaime Sommers returned to the small screen with the fairly successful premiere of Bionic Woman. So it seems only fitting that it was reported yesterday that another vintage TV character could be gracing the airwaves some time next year. But who is it? I?ll give you a hint: He has a talking car.

Ok, if that hint wasn?t totally obvious, you were either living under a rock back in the 80?s or you weren?t born yet. Variety recently reported that NBC is bringing back Knight Rider! Interestingly enough, it wasn?t the re-imagining of Bionic Woman that inspired the Peacock to bring back Michael Knight and his talking car, KITT but rather, the success of the summer blockbuster, Transformers.

Variety stated, ?Success of "Transformers" had a role in inspiring NBC Entertainment chief Ben Silverman's decision to revive "Knight." The thinking is that smallscreen f/x have advanced to the point where it'd be feasible to have a weekly series in which cars shift shapes.? Doug Liman, who directed The Bourne Identity (and produced the two sequels that followed) has been brought on board to produce the new version of the series.

Variety also suggested that there?s a good chance that we?ll see a ?backdoor pilot? for the series sometime this spring. This means that rather than unveiling the new series in the fall, NBC might air an extended pilot episode at some point during the spring season when some of their regularly scheduled shows are on hiatus. It would basically be a sneak preview for the series. We saw something like this last spring when ABC crammed the pilot episode of Private Practice into a ?special two-hour episode? of Grey?s Anatomy. In the case of Knight Rider, since this series isn?t a spin-off, its highly unlikely that NBC will try to squeeze the intro Knight?s new story into an episode of Heroes. Although I do think it might make for a hilarious Office episode if Knight and KITT showed up at Dunder-Mifflin. Maybe not.

Wow I think they are running out of ideas for shows so t:ermm:ve to bring back old ones :ermm:

Edited August 27, 2008 by Rappy

[SirPsychoSexy]

Well now we have to wait on The A-Team and Macgyver who will fight terrorists.

[Nightz]

are they bringing david hasselhoff back for this? :p

[Rappy Veteran]

Well now we have to wait on The A-Team and Macgyver who will fight terrorists.

Who will fight terrorists with an elastic band and a straw.

[kazuyette]

Who will fight terrorists with an elastic band and a straw.

Jack Bauer mate ... Jack Bauer :)

[xploit1030]

I can't wait to see what the new KITT will be.

[Windows Vista User]

NBC must be running out of ideas. They are also bringing back the 90's American Gladiators back.

[NienorGT]

It's not a problem for me that revive old things, IF THEY DO IT RIGHT.

[Zoom7000]

I wonder where this leaves the feature film Knight Rider that Hasslehoff was working on.

[Rappy Veteran]

I wonder where this leaves the feature film Knight Rider that Hasslehoff was working on.

They'll probably see how this series does.

[d3bruts1d]

Didn't they already try this and fail once before?

[goji]

Will it have seamless iPod integration and OnStar support? GPS? HD A/V playback? :p

[BiGdUsTy]

Yea they tried it before it was called Team Knight Rider and it sucked hard.

They better not F this up as I'm a big Knight Rider fan.

Maybe they can bring back the Knight Industries 4000 they used in the tv movie Knight Rider 2000.

[Knife Party]

its simple, no Hasslehof, no show baby!

i wish the KITT could be a 750HP turbo charged R32 Skyline with quad core system, with a strong maniacal british voice, almost like Stu'ies from Family Guy

''U fool turn right, omg your so gonna get pawned for this mission u IMBASIL'' .....haha, now that would be extremely entertaining :)

[RadishTM Veteran]

I can see this failing already :(

Radish?

[notuptome2004]

the Tv movie they made was damn good.

[Zoom7000]

the Tv movie they made was damn good.

You may be in a small majority there mate. The general consensus I got from other Knight Rider fan sites were that it could have been a lot better. The film was ok imo, but I for one was disappointed not to see at least some of the original KITT (Pointiac Trans-Am)

Well, I agree with the majority... If they don't bring back the Hoff and William Daniels at the very least (Patricia McPherson and Peter Parros are unlikely to show) then this thing is simply doomed to failure.

Team Knight Rider anyone? :no:

If they do bring it back, keep the bloody theme tune the same! :p

Edited September 29, 2007 by Zoom7000

[Cavalyr]

i will be happy to check this out when it shows. be waiting for it. see how much different the car will be.

[Jase]

The hoff back on tv :|

/slits Throat.

[Toology]

Lame. How about you know...creating new material instead of recycling/rehashing/regurgitating classic shows and themes? Maybe I'm crazy. Maybe.

First they made a barrage of retarded, quickie game shows and now this. I'm still irked about NBC canceling The Black Donnellys.

[Malisk]

This is such a bad idea, and enough with the remakes already! It will just be a shadow of its former self to the Knight Rider fans. And it'll be laughed at by those who aren't... Who's the audience here, exactly?

[mircleman]

The hoff back on tv :|

/slits Throat.

Hey dont hassle the Hoff

[Chode]

No, NBC! NO! HOT!

>_<

[d3bruts1d]

New theme song?

:D

[+Warwagon MVC]

New theme song?

:D

the song is catchy

I think they should use this as the promo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFQJPeuU5H8...ted&search=