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Knight Rider gets rebooted...AGAIN! (Cast changes, retooling of show)

Old 11-10-08, 01:43 AM
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Knight Rider gets rebooted...AGAIN! (Cast changes, retooling of show)

From Aint-It-Cool-News:

NBC’s supershitty “Knight Rider” sequel series just got the back end of a 22-episode full-season order, but the last nine episodes of its current season are expected to look different from the first 13, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Bruce Davison, Sydney Tamiia Poitier and Yancey Arias have all been dropped from the cast. Fans will be relieved to learn that former model/soap stars Justin Bruening (“One Life To Live,” “All My Children”) and Deanna Russo (“The Young and the Restless”) will continue as the show’s leads.

The format of the show is changing as well:

"It's a reboot," "Knight" executive producer/showrunner Gary Scott Thompson said. "We're moving away from the terrorist-of-the-week formula and closer to the original, making it a show about a man and his car going out and helping more regular people, everymen."

Thompson wrote "The Fast and the Furious" before he served as creator/showrunner on "Las Vegas."

Last week, following news of its pick-up, the series garnered its lowest ratings to date.
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Now that sounds more like it. They really should stick to the motto of the original series....."One Man Can Make a Difference."

I'm glad they are keeping Deanna Russo and Smith Cho. I wonder how they are going to write out Sarah's father though.
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Too little, too late.
Old 11-10-08, 06:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Seantn

Bruce Davison, Sydney Tamiia Poitier and Yancey Arias have all been dropped from the cast.

GOOD on the last two, but I kind of like Bruce Davison. He's sort of the Devon Miles on the show.
Old 11-10-08, 07:07 AM
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The first episode lost me for good. I almost always give shows I'm interested in a shot after the pilot to see how a regular episode plays, but this one was such a cluster F I couldn't stand it.
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Thankfully Bruce Davison is off of that show....he deserves better.
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I say bring in the Hoff in place of Bruce Davison.

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Interesting...so what will be the date of the first retooled show?

I dropped it after the awful premiere and awful second episode, even though I loved the Spring TV-movie. I'd try it again. I love the concept and main actor, just hate the direction and execution.
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Originally Posted by JuryDuty
Interesting...so what will be the date of the first retooled show?
Found the answer to my question:
The revamped "Knight" will kick off with the two-part Episodes 10-11. NBC is planning a major push, including possibly airing Episode 10 on Sunday after an NFL football game in January, with the conclusion airing the following Wednesday.

Such a move would bring "Knight" back to Sunday night, where the two-hour movie/backdoor pilot drew big ratings in February.
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Thank God! 1 man, 1 car, its easy!
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Now if only they could cut back on the transformations and multi-functional glove box.
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I stopped watching it after the first episode (after really liking the re-launch movie).

Wake me up when the re-launch happens.
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Originally Posted by stingermck
thank god! 1 man, 1 car, 1 babe in as little clothing as possible, its easy!
fixed
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Best news I've heard all day. Hopefully they can pull it off. I can't stand the show as-is now, but I'll be happy to give it another chance.
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Originally Posted by Snowmaker
Now if only they could cut back on the transformations and multi-functional glove box.

True dat!

More show - less Ford commercial
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Originally Posted by dan30oly
I stopped watching it after the first episode (after really liking the re-launch movie).

Wake me up when the re-launch happens.
I watched the movie, but didn't bother with the show (I'm a "Pushing Daisies" fan).

Nice to see them go back to the roots of the show... maybe I'll start up when the reboot happens.
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They should bring Journeyman back instead of retooling this one.
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I tried this once and it was horrific. The terrorist of the week shit is right on, I don't know if they can turn it around enough but I'll probably give it another shot.
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Originally Posted by BravesMG
I tried this once and it was horrific. The terrorist of the week shit is right on, I don't know if they can turn it around enough but I'll probably give it another shot.
Give Pushing Daisies a shot.
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Originally Posted by riley_dude
Give Pushing Daisies a shot.
You know, I've heard enough good things about it that I probably should. But it seems like a show I'd need to grab S1 on BD and then try to catch up on BD before S3.
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Originally Posted by BravesMG
You know, I've heard enough good things about it that I probably should. But it seems like a show I'd need to grab S1 on BD and then try to catch up on BD before S3.
Its not going to be around for a S3.
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Thats good that they are rebooting Knight Rider.

I was hoping they would do this:
They should give KITT a new voice. Bring back William Daniels or find someone else that sounds like him.
Use more KITT. No CGI fake stuff.
Bring back the 18 wheeler, not a cargo plane.
Have David Hasselhoff make some appearance.
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Have David Hasselhoff make some appearance.
thing is, the way the show turned out recently makes it seem to be in a different universe (the mention of karr last week for example) even though the pilot movie had the hoff at the end to tie it into the original
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This has suffered from the mistakes almost every crap show that should be good ends up with. They make it about CGI and ass, and forget to have a good story. Babylon 5, Star Trek, etc. were not great shows because they were in space. That was just a setting for a good story. And the transformer stuff is as stupid as it gets.
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