Archive for April, 2008

Knight Rider fans have to be viewing the show’s return as a regular series on NBC this fall with some ambivalence. After all, while the two-hour TV film that acted as the new series’ pilot attracted a huge audience, there aren’t many people who watched it that actually like it. It’s now Gary Scott Thompson’s job to make the audience forget that and be comfortable coming back to watch Knight Rider every week.

“I’m frantically making those changes right now,” Thompson told Inside Line, when asked if there were going to be any significant differences between February’s TV movie and the series. “We’re determined to not have another Bionic Woman,” he said, referencing the series revival NBC undertook last year that collapsed in the ratings under the weight of its own pretensions. And he sees the series as something unique from the movie. “There’s the original series. There’s the two-hour movie. And now there’s the new series,” he explains.

Still, expect a lot of familiar faces to migrate from the movie to the series. Justin Bruening will return as KITT’s primary conversational partner, Deanna Russo and Sydney Tamiia Poitier will be back to provide feminine support and Bruce Davison will be on board to lend gravitas as the genius — sorry, super-genius — behind the KITT’s construction. And KITT’s voice will continue to be provided by Val Kilmer.

While things are incredibly quite with Sydney at the moment, I thought I’d catch up on some scans. I have now added a treasured handful of new Sydney material. Stuff on her is quite hard tome come by and luckily I’ve managed to find one of Sydney’s first solo covers on ebay (perhaps the first?) all the way back from 2003 when she was promoting the show Abbey, as well as some other nice things. I’d like to thank Riikka for contributing some clippings here as well. Proceed here to view everything. Remember if you have any scans that are not posted in the gallery, please send them in for us fans to see!

Knight Rider has been picked up by NBC for the 2008-2009 Fall season! You can check out a little about what is in store on Variety. They saw it will be a bit like The Fast and the Furious meets the show Las Vegas.

I have replaced several shots of Sydney’s older People outtakes with new larger, untagged versions. It’s definitely one of my favorite shoots to date so it’s lovely having most without tags! I also added a new shoot pic of Sydney with her sister Anika and mother. Sydney looks very cute! Big thanks to Ally for these snaps!