After initially ordering a full season, NBC has decided to pull the plug on Knight Rider with four shows to go. I blame the collapse of the auto industry. Because there’s no way anyone with the right number of chromosomes could’ve possibly seen five seconds of that godawful show and decided people wanted more unless Ford was footing the bill. The closest comparison for it I can think of is a bad infomercial, which isn’t quite fair. I’d much rather watch someone clean up grandma’s drool with a Sham-Wow than watch this tool act continually surprised. This was so bad it made the David Hasshoff version look good. It was so bad it made the product placement in Transformers seem tasteful. It was… worse than Viva Laughlin.
Also: where the hell was this scene supposed to have taken place? Did they not even bother to cover the f-cking black background of the stage? Makes sense, I guess. “Oops, a guy with a boom mike wandered into the shot on that last take.” “Meh, print it, it’s almost lunch.”
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NBC’s Knight Rider TV movie was up there with croc sandals, the Holocaust, and Viva Laughlin in terms of things so bad you can scarcely believe they’re real. But that didn’t stop NBC from moving forward with a complete series, because they’re evil and/or retarded.
Knight Rider has been given an episodic order and has been mentioned as a contender for a Friday night timeslot.
But it’s important to balance any guesses about NBC’s new sked with one important caveat: Even Peacock insiders say what will be revealed this week will be written in pencil. Execs have made it clear they’ll reserve the right to make changes in order to react to competitors’ moves or if promising scripts or pilots take a wrong creative turn.
Considering the decision, I’m surprised it won’t be written in crayon, or safety pencil, or alphabet soup. I guess bottom line, expect misspellings.
"We’re selling advertisers platforms as opposed to specific shows," said NBC Entertainment co-chairman Marc Graboff. What’s important is not that, say, "Knight Rider" airs Fridays at 9 but that the Peacock delivers some sort of action-drama in that timeslot. "Advertisers don’t care as much about a specific show as opposed to ‘Am I getting the kinds of eyeballs I paid for?’" Graboff added.
They’re obviously after the kind of eyeballs with nothing behind them. Anyway, read the rest of the source article if you like being depressed. I haven’t finished it myself, but any second now I get the feeling Graboff’s going to bite the head off a live puppy and then cackle maniacally.
IESB today has the above clip and four others from the upcoming Knight Rider TV movie. I don’t want to ruin the surprise, but it’s pretty much the worst thing ever.
I love all the funky, diagonal camera angles – as if shooting everything sideways will keep us from noticing how crappy it is. It’s like watching Viva Laughlin* through a keyhole! Brilliant!
*Video after the jump – a must see
Doug Liman (Go, Swingers) is set to direct Jake Gyllenhaal in Untitled Moon Project. Liman co-wrote the script with John Hamburg (Along Came Polly) before Mark Bowden (Killing Pablo, Blackhawk Down) was brought on to rewrite.
Loosely based on the space race among private companies, the movie revolves "around the private expedition to the moon and the race for lunar colonization."
That reminds me of the time when Poland wanted to send their astronauts to the sun. They planned to avoid burning up by traveling at night! LOL silly Polacks! I also heard like a thousand of them screwed in a lightbulb one time! >:-D
Production will begin after Gyllanhaal finishes Brothers, his asexual love triangle movie with Tobey Maguire and Natalie Portman. Liman’s working on Knight Rider for NBC and a movie called Jumper, which I really hope is about that one Third Eye Blind song. Omg they’re like the best!
Knight Rider. Knight Rider is coming back to TV. That’s right, apparently some NBC execs saw Transformers and thought the same thing I did – "Hey, this reminds me of KITT." Only they also thought it’d be a good idea to do a remake of Knight Rider. They want Doug Liman (Swingers, Go) to direct a two-hour "backdoor" pilot.
It’s also likely the new show will explore the idea of "evil" cars to offset the heroic talking K.I.T.T. car of the original.. That said, skein is expected to essentially remain focused on the story of a single man fighting for justice with the help of his superadvanced car.
Lame. I think Knight Rider is a great idea, but only if Hasselhoff comes back and it’s a made-for-TV movie about the dangers of drunken driving. "You’ve had too much to drink, Michael. Calling your ex-girfriend is a bad idea, Michael. You’ve ordered far too many tacos, Michael. Put your shirt back on, Michael. Chewing gum won’t help you pass a breathalyzer, Michael. You’ve parked me on the lawn again, Michael." Pff, nagging ass cars. Who needs em. [via IESB]
