knight rider is coming back!
 

according to the article here:

http://www.eonline.com/news/article/...rss_topstories

sorry hasslehoff fans, the hoff won't be in it, but the show is coming back...

I liked the intro music.

I remember loving this show as a kid. I hope it's an actual half way decent remake. Though I could see this getting canned as quick as the 1994 tv show Viper. On a side note, what's with all the remakes of 70s and 80s shows lately?

I wonder if they'll get the guy who played the principle on boy meets world for the voice of the car again. I'm sort of guessing that it'll bomb, but I am willing to allow for other more pleasant possibilities.

i actually kinda liked viper.

i think they are hoping to capture the older crowd through nostalgia, and figured "gee, starsky and hutch used to be a hit, lets try it again, etc....

if they do a remake of welcome back kotter, i will walk to whatever studio is making it and shoot people...

Ugh, I hated the Team Knight Rider that was out in the late 90s.

I did like KR... but TKR was just lame.

They need to do an A-Team movie... like... time now. STAT!

Knightrider....it would in fact be amazing if they brought it back. The only thing that scares me is when they say things like:

on some sites. That just makes me think "Man, I hope they don't cheese-monkey this to the point that it's an unwatchable rippoff of Transformers."

~Drego

Sorry, but this is gonna suck.

Can it transform into a better idea for a show?

Send me a PM before you do.

Nothing will ever compare to the Hoff in that members only jacket and sprayed on Jordache jeans.

I used to love the show as a kid, but these days, I can't imagine anyone making a decent show out of it, especially now that they've added transformers.

And an A-Team remake would be awesome.

Anybody remember that '80s "Turbo Teen" cartoon? Totally should be a movie.

Makes me shiver sometimes that I watched it with such glee in my eyes.

No worries my friend it's a guilty pleasure of having lived through the 80's. That prick can eat a burger like no one's business....

maybe by transform, they mean Super Pursuit Mode?

hit a button and like fins and stuff stick out and k.i.t.t. can go super fast...

http://www.knightrideruk.co.uk/site/...d=19&Itemid=32

Hopefully, that's what they mean and not a rip off of Viper or Transformers.

Well, dayum. I thought you meant Knight Ridder. Nevermind.

behind the scenes and some peeks at the new series...

Unsurprisingly, that looks stupid :/

"Let's make KITT a new Mustang. People will love that." - Satan, father of all lies and the uncle of all tricks

They should have made it a Vette Z06. It's real American muscle, and every pseudo-rich high school student in the entire country doesn't drive one (unlike the new Mustang). KITT is supposed to be fast, not look like a big ugly toy.

No, more like "Let's approach each of the car manufacturers, and see which one will pay us the most to have KITT be their car".

I think that we have to give this show a chance. I'm looking forward to watching it, but I'm surrounded by others who say that they're sure to be disappointed. If a person can enjoy it for its differences, then I think it's going to be a great show. I for one am excited that they're bringing it back!

A long long time ago, in a convention center not to far away........I had a photo taken of me with K.I.T.T. Boy........those were the days LOL.

Do you think we can get a remake of Airwolf going?

That I can totally get behind. As long as it's not a Mustang.

Pft, retarded mustang. I agree with the c6 z06 statment. That car makes me want to cream my pants

As well it should. It's literally the best car ever made. It drives like a supercar but costs less than a baseline Carrera. It's more American than American cheese on apple pie at a baseball game. It's not got bells and whistles, just a gorgeous engine that came into being when I found a genie. My second wish was that we'd have a president that was funny, but that kinda backfired.

sweet.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...eelTheLove.jpg

So, how many remakes has Hollywood and TV tried to pull fast ones on us and we didn't bite?
Bionic Woman
Kojak- The Knight Stalker (big fan of the original)
Add this to it...

They are out of ideas.

Just watched the little trailer. I'm going to miss the Pontiac Trans Am.

Anyway, piggy-backing on what Redlemon said the Mustang was mostly likely picked for money issues.

However, an interesting/geeky footnote(s): The Mustang was also the KITT used in the crappy made for tv movie Knight Rider 2010.

Personally, I'd rather have the Knight 4000 (a customized Dodge Stealth modeled to look like a Pontiac Banshee) from the other made for tv movie Knight Rider 2000.

Lastly, why call the car the 3000 if the 4000 has already been named in previous Knight Rider works? From what I've seen it takes place after first series and the movie KR2000. So shouldn't the 5000 be the next car? I'm pretty sure the writers used the name 3000 simply to keep the acronym K.I.T.T. (Knight Industries Two Thousand) or in this case Knight Industries Three Thousand.

How many of us would say, "what the hell?" if the car was named K.I.F.T.

Finally, the original voice actor for K.I.T.T. is William Daniels. IMDB has Will Arnett listed as the new voice.

The fact that they're not up on the lore is troublesome, yes.

I liked the Knight Rider techno remix.
I'm a Mustang kinda gal, but I did think it was an odd choice for a KITT. The cool thing about the Z06 dashboard is you don't ever have to look at it to monitor your speed. It shows up on your windshield, too. They could have played with that feature a bit, if they'd gone with the Z06 instead of the Mustang.

I'm really only interested in the scenes involving the old car. It'll be fun to see it in action again and I hope it's given a dignified send off -perhaps a firey tumble down a cliff after saving a puppy.

The rest may as well be KnightBoat.

They've already ruined it by making it a Mustang.

They could've at least stayed true to it's f-body roots by making it a TransAm WS6. Or worst case, a C6 Vette (I kind of like the Z06 idea mentioned earlier). Even an '09 Camaro wouldn't have been THAT bad.

But going Mustang on us ruined it.

I don't know what's worse, the new KITT trying to sound cool with, "Hello, Mike" or the new guy wearing his Member's Only leather jacket like it's a family heirloom from David Hasselhoff himself.

I guess those of you bawling that it's a Ford doesn't remember the short run of Team Knight Rider which aired in 1997. I watched a few episodes but didn't really enjoy it at all since there was a "team" of people instead of the idea that "one man can make a difference." It featured Ford vehicles as it's primary team members.

Danté (D.N.T.-1), a modified Ford Expedition sport utility vehicle
Domino (D.M.O.-1), a modified Ford Mustang convertible
Attack Beast (B.S.T.-1), or just Beast, which is a modified Ford F-150 full-sized pickup truck with off-road capability
Kat (K.A.T.-1), a high-tech motorcycle that merges with her twin, Plato, to form the advanced High Speed Pursuit Vehicle
Plato (P.L.A.T.O.-1), the other motorcycle that merges with his twin Kat to form the High Pursuit Vehicle

seriously VAL KILMER????

okay... Leno drives it around... via remote control, okay that's very very cool

http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/video/...tml?vid=215940

I read the Val Kilmer thing this morning... how odd.

Has Val sunk so low in his career that he can only do voice work? That said, he probably will get paid a decent bit of money for very little work.

Val is in a place where he does "fuck it" work because it's fun. I LOVED Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. It was not mainstream or anything even close, but it looked like he had a blast.

How much fun would it be to do KITT? I'd do it for $15k a year.

Val did a great job in Larry McMurtry's Comanche Moon this past month.
If you missed it and you like Westerns, try to rent it when it hits the stores.
It's a prequel to Lonesome Dove.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0783328/

Well that wasn't so bad now was it?

Is it true that in the US there was a Ford logo in the corner of the screen for the entire show?

damn forgot all about it. Tivo says it will rebroadcast on Sat at 6pm EST.

Reviews, please!

Meh, not bad and not stellar. 6/10

Spoiler: It was nice to see the original Michael Knight and I love Val Kilmer (after Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), but I hope they don't make him into a Spock/Data/Odo/Tuvok/T'Pol carbon copy; the emotionless character striving to be human or whatever.

Well, we liked it. You can view the movie online at nbc dot com.

http://www.nbc.com/Knight_Rider/video/episodes.shtml

I just started watching it to see if you have to pay for it. Nope, it's free.

Hehe...it says 'this presentation sponsored by Suzuki. I restarted it accidentally, and it went to being sponsored by Nissan.

:) I like the fact that it streams very quickly, and with my adblocker, I don't see the ads. ABC has a check wherein if the ad doesn't play the rest of the show doesn't start.

I enjoyed it. It was cool to see the hoff in the show, now he can disappear. They sorta gotta go with the series now. The ending was a hanger.....

They cut 40 minutes of commercials out of the online version. The rest is the same. The ads that do show, only run for less than a minute, instead of 5 or so on tv last night. Now, if I can figure out how to hook up the tv to the computer...

I just watched it, and I was pleasantly surprised. I'm glads that they decided to continue the story, rather than starting from scratch/"re-imagining". I also liked Val Kilmer as KITT, but I wonder if he'll be able to stick it out should the series become popular enough for a multi-season run. From what I've heard, he's notoriously difficult to work with, but since it's just voice over work he may be able to "play nice".

I don't know about anyone else, but I kind of respect the that they are not trying to hide the fact that this is a big fat commercial, and the "proper" Ford commercials commercials were actually kind of funny.

Knight Rider TV Show, Series - Video Clips, Episodes Online. NBC Official Site

New Knight Rider: First Video Of KITT Valmorphanizing Into A Ford F-150 FX4 Pickup Truck
KITT asking if Michael is gay...OMG what a hoot!

Lack of ideas from the Hollywood machine?

just watched it. It's a lot less cheesy than the original was (though I confess to having loved the orig. as a younger-person) . . .but the one scene where

Spoiler: the SUV crashes into KITT, and KITT doesn't even MOVE, was just stupid. It's physically impossible, and to such an absurd degree that it destroys the suspension of disbelief.