\”Knight Rider\” (2008)

Hello everyone! I’d like to appologize for there being no updates here on Sydney Online for over a month. If I didn’t mention it before, I had started a new job which led to one of the reasons I had little time for my online commitments. Well that was not all, right before I went on vacation at the end of June (shortly after my last update), my computer broke (yes, for the 12,893 time). So I planned to get everything sorted after we returned from our trip but it would have it be that it actually be another problem – with our internet / phone / cable wiring thus resulting in me having terrible connection problems for many months. So that delayed into a few weeks waiting on our company’s technician to have the first available appointment. Finally after all this hastle I thought everything was on solid ground once more, but My PC still seems to act up. (I truly think it’s Windows Vista now, so be wary all of you with this) so it’s a game of luck of being able to get online. However, I am able to use my friend’s computer once or twice a week for a few hours on my days off from work now and I hope I am going to be able to bring you steady updates once more.

The K.I.T.T. is back and you can watch him over and over again on DVD this September. Knight Rider will be released on DVD on September 9 according to MovieWeb. This TV movie, which became the pilot for the upcoming NBC series, will be priced at $14.98 SRP. Cover art is not available at this time, but we’ll update this story as soon as we get it.

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.

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.

While the ratings were nice for NBC’s Knight Rider, the film’s reviews aren’t so lucky. Check out a few, if you wish. I still haven’t watched the movie/pilot myself, but I was never terribly impressed (to say the least) with the remake, so I doubt my expectations are very high. I will be adding captures and clips in a few days none the less.

And…The results are in! This is from Variety:

Knight Rider averaged a strong 5.0 rating/12 share in adults 18-49 and 12.7 million viewers overall from 9 to 11 p.m., building gradually from start to finish. No movie on television – telepic, theatrical or multipart original – has fared better in the demo since ABC’s Their Eyes Were Watching God in March 2005.

Tonight (Sunday 02/17) is the premiere of the 2 hour TV movie/backdoor pilot Knight Rider! It airs on NBC at 9:00PM. Sydney stars as Carrie Rivai in it. If the movie does well we might even see it as a new series. Be sure to watch and check back for captures and clips!

Sydney attended the premiere of Knight Rider in Los Angeles this past tuesday, February 12th. She looked really pretty! I have added the few pictures I could find. Pictures are so scarce I nearly missed these!

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