"Anybody" <anybody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <8baoi3hb177i9i49brvr7caj506ikb56bk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Charles
> Galloway <CSGalloway@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> It looks like KITT has himself a new partner.
>>
>> NBC has tapped soap star Justin Bruening to front a new Knight Rider
>> TV movie that could serve as a pilot to a revived series based on the
>> '80s action-adventure about a crimefighter and his talking Trans-Am.
>>
>> Per the Hollywood Re****ter, the 28-year-old actor will play the son of
>> Michael Knight, the original series' hero played by David Hasselhoff.
>>
>> The 1982-86 Knight Rider chronicled how an undercover cop named
>> Michael Long was gunned down on the job and then given a new face and
>> identity by a secret, extragovernmental Foundation for Law and
>> Government . Rechristened Michael Knight, after the dying billionaire
>> behind FLAG, he is dispatched to fight baddies with his chatty s****ts
>> car, KITT.
>>
>> The souped-up, artificially intelligent Knight Industries Two Thousand
>> features an arsenal that would make James Bond jealous: fire and
>> bulletproof frame, turbo engine with superpursuit mode, spiked tires,
>> radar and, presumably, a killer hi-fi.
>>
>> This time out, the younger Knight's ride will feature more aftermarket
>> mods, perhaps even morphing into a Transformers-like 'bot. The make
>> and model of the new vehicle hasn't been announced, though. NBC is
>> seeking an automaker to partner with for the retooled KITT.
> <snip>
>
> Another complete garbage, in-name-only show form the idiots in charge.
> If I want to watch Transformers, then I'll watch transformers. :-(
If NBC were to pay *you* to bring "Knight Rider" back to TV, what would
you
do? What would the show be about? What characters would you use, and
why?
You seem to be an expert on "Hollyweird" (as you call it), so tell me.
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