NBC Puts the Brakes on Knight Rider
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Inside sources confirm that NBC has decided not to order any more episodes of Knight Rider this season and will close production after the cast and crew complete the 17th episode, which is filming this week.
So will the show live on to see a season two? Find out...
Knight Rider Goes Into Shop to Avoid Junkyard
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Somebody put out an APB for the Hoff, his services might be required soon.
With ratings sputtering, producers of NBC's Knight Rider 2.0 are putting the talking-car show into the garage for a major overhaul that includes eliminating three series regulars.
Gone are Sydney Tamiia "Daughter of Sidney" Poitier, Yancey Arias and Bruce Davison, whose contracts were not renewed past Knight Rider's initial 13-episode order, per the Hollywood Reporter.
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Knight Rider: NBC Gives KITT a Full Season
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Well, we certainly never saw this one coming. But that's usually the case with KITT, right?
Very reliable sources tell me that NBC has requested nine more episodes of the new Knight Rider series, meaning that there will be a full first season of the show. Yay? Nay? How are you liking the new Michael Knight and his turbo-charged automotive sidekick? Post your verdict in the comments...
Update
Not a Great Premiere Knight
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Michael Knight is making Jaime Sommers look good.
NBC's Knight Rider redo got off to a slow start last night, scoring only 7.3 million viewers, Nielsen Media Research estimates said.
Another new show, the Fox comedy Do Not Disturb (3.5 million), ran dead last in its time slot among the big-four network competition—and got yanked for it.
Knight Rider's debut could be called comparable to another failed NBC revamp, except it was much worse. On a Wednesday night last September, the network's new Bionic Woman started off with 13.9 million viewers; with an assist from the writers' strike, the series ended only seven episodes later.
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