The NEW K.I.T.T.

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 9th February 2008, 08:34 AM

Filed under: Ford, Celebrities

Man, how time flies. The return of Knight Rider to the small screen happens in just nine days when a two-hour movie featuring a new Michael Knight and his talking, jumping, cloaking car airs February 17th on NBC. You'd think with such little time left that the movie itself would be finished and ready to go. Not so. A few weeks ago, Will Arnett, the chosen voice of KITT in the movie and upcoming series, was forced to back out because someone realized that he also did voiceover work for GMC. Being a professional grade voice for General Motors doesn't jive with playing KITT in a show that's sponsored by Ford, so the Arrested Development star vacated the role. His replacement: Val Kilmer. Wha?!?!?!

Doc Holliday? Ice Man? Nick Rivers? It's true. Kilmer's a pretty big star for the production to score on such short notice, but then again, Kilmer hasn't had a mainstream hit in a while. Still, why doesn't someone just bite the bullet and call William Daniels, the original voice of KITT who is also known for playing Mr. Feeny on Boy Meets World? Admit it, Val Kilmer's synthesized pipes coming from KITT's tweeters will never live up to the high standard set by Daniels. But don't worry Val, we'd say the same thing about anyone they got for this job except for the original voice of KITT.

[Source: welcome to knight rider online via Jalopnik]

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 11th February 2008, 08:29 AM

VIDEO: Newest <i>Knight Rider</i> spot arrives - Autoblog

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 13th February 2008, 07:41 AM

VIDEO: Another new Knight Rider spot highlights shape-shifting KITT - Autoblog

**CraigE** · 14th February 2008, 04:43 AM

Real sad. How dare they replace KITT the Tranny with a busted ass mustang. Its just not right. Like replacing Herbie with a Datsun 120Y or Bandit 1 with a Cortina.

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 19th February 2008, 01:33 PM

gee's I'm good to you,,,
SPOILERS!!!!!!

its a blog of the two hour movie,,
could well be better than the movie----

Knight Rider: The Liveblog - Autoblog

RonMcGr · 19th February 2008, 01:49 PM

Lame car and stupid show....
I guess small kids loved it

**Outlaw** · 23rd February 2008, 12:11 AM

Well that was fun

Now fingers crossed the network picks it up as a series.

And a couple cameo appearances as you'd expect.

Oh and KITT has a sweeeet mamma

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 1st April 2008, 07:37 AM

gees I'm good to you--

Filed under: Sports/GTs, Etc., Ford, Celebrities

You'll see more of him this Fall. Click above for a gallery of the new KITT.

The Knight Rider TV movie was not good. The updated, Shelby Mustang-based KITT looked undeniably cool (when not in Ugly... er... Attack Mode, at least), but the acting was wooden and the writing was a horror show. Still, the ending completely set up a potential ongoing story. Today comes word that the ratings were apparently good enough for the suits to give a thumbs-up for a new weekly series starting this Fall. Early reports suggest a Friday night timeslot is in the works, but that's subject to change; all will be known on Wednesday when NBC presents its early upfronts.

We'll assume that at the very least, stars Justin Breuning (Mike Traceur) and Deanna Russo (Mike Traceur's Girlfriend) will return to fill our flatscreens with emotionless line reading. And since voicing KITT should be a relatively easy payday for Val Kilmer, we'd expect him to reprise his role, as well. As for the Hoff, who walked on for a brief cameo at the end of the pilot, who knows? The big winner here is Ford, which now gets an hour-long weekly showcase for the Shelby GT500KR KITT. Based on the stupendously lousy pilot, however, we're going to put on our prognostication hats and set the over/under for this Knight Rider reboot at 10 episodes. Unless NBC ups the quality in a big, big way, the under is a lock.

I am ordering Alex to live blog every single episode like he did the pilot, which probably won't be a long-term commitment considering. - John

Gallery: The new KITT - OFFICIAL PHOTOS

**Outlaw** · 1st April 2008, 07:45 AM

You are good

**RaZz0R** · 1st April 2008, 03:14 PM

LONG LIVE KITT!!

going to be checking out those videos when I get home... its home time... right??

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