Variety reports today that friggin’ Knight Rider has been picked up by NBC for a FULL SEASON. This after their ratings have been fairly poor despite the TV movie “prequel” doing well last season.
I watched 20 minutes of the Knight Rider movie and had to turn it off. Wow, was it awful. But it was almost nothing compared to the first 20 minutes of the reimagined series that I witnessed a few weeks ago. No longer a cool car, KITT is a Transformer that can morph into anything that they program him to. Ugh. Really?
And let’s not mention the “sexy” striptease in the first 10 minutes to get the audience all hot and bothered over the lead characters. Lame. When you have no real story or good writing, show naked people. That will draw in viewers!
Heck, even one of our readers, The Cap’n, watches the show regularly and admits it’s awful. Really, really bad.
Yet it’s renewed. And why do I care so much? Because it’s just another reminder that Journeyman was treated so badly by NBC and deserved to be around longer. If this steaming pile of Knight Rider can get a full year, why not Journeyman?
Thanks for nothing NBC. Enjoy low quality television for the sake of advertising dollars (because that’s the only reason I can think of why Knight Rider is still around. How much is Ford paying to showcase their Mustang?).
Grrrrrr….Mike is getting upset.
I don't watch this pos but amen on the Journeyman comments. That show was just getting good when WHACK! Thanks NBC.
The big question is what does the Cap'n think of this?
It's ratings do suck, but it is beating Pushing Daisies in the same time slot if that tells you anything. It tells me something: we need a good pandemic or asteroid strike.
As for why they might renew otherwise, NBC is probably getting a lot of money from Ford for it. After all, the car can only transform into any Ford vehicle.
I can't understand why they would keep Knight Rider. I couldn't even get through 5 minutes of it. I did actually like the first Knight Rider show back in the 80's.
Great question…. and you know how the Cap'n cant turn down a question aimed at him!!! =)
So the new Knight Rider… saw the remake pilot episode (all of it, yeah I saw through it all)…
Saw the reports it was picked as a series and the producer pulled a 'we understand heroes is not very good so we are really going to remake the show' referring to the pilot that had high hopes but seemingly reports did not fare it well on the to be developed Knight Rider series, which was good news cause the pilot SUCKED MAJOR STINKY EGGS…
So now we have the TV series… and dear lord IS THIS SHOW ULTIMATE TRASH OR WHAT!?!?!. I thought Bionic Woman was bad?!?!?! That was 10 fold better than this show, at least Jaime jiggled when she ran…. Kitt is cool lookin when he's in normal mode, but when he does his really bad (and I mean REALLY bad) transformer morph, its beyond silly stupidness, coupled with the really bad acting, stories, and everything associated with this show is so awful it makes you wonder how in the HELL Journeyman got cancelled (Mike started it Jina not me… gah Journeyman cancelled CAN YOU EVEN BELIEVE IT!?!?!… ok, I'm calm again).
They have like 50 main charecters…why? Cause its trashy to do so and they want it really hard to like anyone but the eye candy?!?! The only reason this show is remotely successful on any level is they try REALLY hard at being a bit Bay-Watchish, they always go to the beach, or a party at a big house, somewhere something that has tons of flighty girls wearing skimpy clothing. Its probably the only draw. Its a total dissapointment too Val Kilmers (who?) performance as Kitt… they originally signed him (as 2nd choice btw) to be a more sarchastic Kitt like his witty character Chris Knight (hmmm a distant cousin of Knight industries?!?!?!) from Real Genius (greatest movie EVER made btw), but he doesnt go anywhere near what could be entertaining, and just adds to the overall let down of the show (seriously, greatest movie ever made!!).
People and old fans were amped to see the remake done right, I guess BSG really set the tone that remakes can be an amazing trade-up from the old show, unfortunately the new Knight Rider is not that show, and I'm not waiting to see if the A-team is re-envisioned into a better show, since it seems NBC it focused on old glory it keeps missing the mark on…
Thats how the Capn see's it…
But you would'nt mind a a re-make or continuance of The Greatest American Hero right Cap'n?
Yes but that was ABC not NBC you fool…
Oh… well , you dont have to be so mean about it, geesh… =/ and before you apologize its already too late…
I love it when the Cap'n blogs with himself.
So Mike, I'm sensing some hostility.
After all this I hope NBC doesn't wonder why they are the bottom of the major networks. Aside from Thursday's, their primetime programing generally sucks..sorry Heroes, you're a shadow of your former self.
Thanks Cap'n…that was flippin' awesome
ROTFL!
Did you hear Tony Cornheiser yesterday say he was going to watch Knight Rider because it just might be the worst show in the history of television and he HOPED it would be? LOL!
This is a case of low-brow culture feeding upon itself. To the cess-pit, I say!
I watched the end of an episode of Knight Rider recently, and I thought it was pretty stupid. I have no idea why they revived this series; I guess since they thought it was successful back then, it would be successful again. Maybe it would have been, but success is in the execution, and they did not execute well.
Look on the bright side, the show may be bad but at least that mustang pictured looks done nicely.
Great post. Completely agree with the above comment. Thanks for sharing this.
Yeah the mustang looks bad ass…