[Official] NBC Knight Rider

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Somehow, I'm not getting the vibe, especially with the new KITT attack mode :/ .

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I am not getting the vibe at all, its a shame really as I said before the special tv movie should of been it.

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David Hasselhoff says new Knight Rider series will be a flop

ACTOR David Hasselhoff says the revamped version of his hit TV show Knight Rider won't be a success without him.

Hasselhoff, 55, says he was disappointed with the pilot episode which aired in the USA in February and says the upcoming series this autumn is doomed to fail because he doesn't have a star role in it.

The TV pilot earlier this year starred Justin Bruening as Michael Traceur, the estranged son of Hasselhoff's original Knight Rider character Michael Knight. Hasselhoff made a cameo appearance as Michael Knight in the pilot.

But he was hoping for a much greater role in the upcoming series. Hasselhoff said: "It's going to miss the target a little bit... It's like having Indiana Jones without Indiana Jones."

He told WENN entertainment news: "Basically, I brought the project into NBC. They read my treatment, which involved Michael Knight and his son, and they called me up and said 'Hey, we're going ahead.'"

But it soon became clear that producers were going in a different direction for the TV pilot and cut Hasselhoff out, so the Baywatch creator decided he wanted nothing to do with the new Knight Rider: "They asked me to come in and do a cameo and promote it and I said I would. But it was not what I had in mind. I didn't get a chance to see the show until the final product and it was clearly not what it could've been. It was someone else's vision.

"I clearly could've brought more of Michael Knight and the past into it. The bottom line was they missed a big audience because it was not retro and that was the whole point of it - being retro.

"I mean, everybody grew up watching that show and they loved it. They missed the point of heart, humour and action. They didn't have heart, humour and I don't know how they didn't have action."

It's been reported that NBC Entertainment bosses want the new show to be like Transformers, the 2007 blockbuster movie in which unearthly robots disguise themselves as motor vehicles. Studio heads are keen for the new show to be much more sci-fi - making the most of current technological and FX capabilities - and for KITT to battle evil supercars. There was an evil KITT prototype called KARR in the original series but that concept would be taken to the next level.

Hasselhoff's original Knight Rider show ran from 1982 to 1986. He played former police office Michael Knight who was recruited into a group called FLAG (Foundation for Law and Government) and fought crime with the aid of a hi-tech talking car called KITT that had artificial intelligence. Hasselhoff also appeared in a 1991 TV film sequel called Knight Rider 2000. There was also a 1994 film called Knight Rider 2010, a Team Knight Rider spin-off in 1997, and then the TV pilot movie earlier this year.

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See even the hoff agrees with rappy :D :p

I think The Hoff agrees with anyone at this moment :laugh: .

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What did that have to do with the show?

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Saw the promo trailer the other day for the series premier. As a 28 year old who grew up watching the show and worshiping everything that Knight Rider and Airwolf brought to TV, I am disgusted. They want the show to be like Transformers? Um...I don't even know what to say to that.

Such a travesty. Shows like Knight Rider and Airwolf featured so much more than just the car or helicopter. The characters brought realism and emotion to the show - it was much more than just special effects. Hell, there hardly were any special effects by today's standards and the shows were fantastic.

<shaking head>

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The problem is the overall premise. Forget the 80's nostalgia cos that wears off after 20 mins.

OK, so you have a great talking supercar. Big deal. Then what? What are you going to do with it? How is this show going to be any better than one without a talking supercar? How are you going to write stories around it? How are you going to develop characters to work within this framework (because well written characters are what viewers latch onto).

This is where the original KnightRider also failed. The stories became generic: Michael finds a person in need. He helps them out. The end. Throw in some car chases, a bit where he talks to Kitt via his wristwatch. That's it.

The successful episodes were the ones that utilised the concept well (Kitt vs Karr, Juggernaut, etc). These became few and far between an so it wained in popularity. But it took 4 seasons. These days TV is made so formulaic (read: cheaply + quickly) that stories are 100% formulaic and ignore the basic premise.

I agree and disagree. While you can take the 'Knight Rider' and say it was just about Michael helping people and talking to KITT, there was something else to it that isn't as easy to define. Take MacGuyver. Awesome show, we all can agree, and it had a basic premise as well. But there was something to it that made us want to keep watching.

This is why I loved Airwolf. Even as a kid I was still interested in Hawk trying to find his brother and why did he always act so distant and was afraid to get close to anybody. Like I said above, the characters were molded. This new Knight Rider show won't have that, the only purpose will be to see a transforming car go against another transforming car.

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http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=131990

Turbo Boost makes its return early in the episode, but does so in such a funkified CGI-heavy manner as to be unrecognizable as the faux tech that launched old KITT with such ludicrous reliability in the original '80s series. And the CGI featured here is so cheesy that it's surprising that Sargento doesn't get a production credit.

In fact the effects are so flat-out awful that they practically sink the show by themselves. You never once believe that KITT is in any way a real physical object, and that destroys any sense of danger or thrills. And frankly, about the last thing anyone wants to see KITT transform into is an F-150.

Of course the plot is pure goofball hokum ? this is Knight Rider and not Shakespeare. And all the acting is of the Hasselhoff-ian level one expects as well. But the supporting characters in the KITT lab are obnoxious, unnecessary and uninteresting.

Do you want that with cheeeese? Seems like Knight Rider is, well... crap.

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