NBC Revive Knight Rider

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US broadcasting giant NBC is planning to bring 'Knight Rider' back to TV screens.

Variety reports that NBC has hired 'Mr and Mrs Smith' and 'The Bourne Identity' director Doug Liman to produce a 'Transformers'-inspired reworking of the 1980s series about the crusading Michael Knight and his computerised car KITT.

KITT could shift shapes in the new series, which could also see battles involving 'evil' cars.

The trade daily says NBC is developing a two-hour pilot episode and hopes to air it as a TV movie in the US later this year; if that goes well a full series could be on air by next autumn.

Aside from producing the pilot, Liman may also sit in the director's chair.

http://www.rte.ie/arts/2007/0927/knightrider.html

This news likely means Larson's attempt at a Knight Rider movie has either become a new series, or there moving ahead without him and doing a series in spite of his idea for a film. I hope Hasselhoff is given a small role as either a mentor character or the voice of K.I.T.T if they cant get William Daniels to reprise his role.