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Why Wont NBC Take A Gamble On The Hoff + The Trans AM Now ?

posted 15 years ago by Neil_Of_Cardiff
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It's the only way this show will ever pull in the audience after that dog sh!t nightmare attempt of a comeback that has just been cancelled . The Hoff isn't over the hill and could easily still play the part of Michael Knight, and there is no reason why Kitt in the Tran Am form ( and still easily the best car to pay the part ) along with William Daniels voicing Kitt again could not make a huge come back.

Keep it like the original with the HQ being on a moving lorry etc, and keep the story lines simple like the original. The fans want it so why cant NBC deliver the goods finally ?

[–] treymatt2002 15 years ago

ur idea would suck..........the new KR would kick ur idea ass

Year 2009, lets have an outdated 1980 T/A with an actor that cant get any real big time gigs..........goood thinking

Hoff would never save this show

[–] fashion103 15 years ago

Yeah, a serial piss head, emotionally cabbaged has been tearing across North America in a car with absolutely no market value or possible product placement benefits.

I can see how NBC would just love to go with that idea.

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[–] RobBase086-1 15 years ago

Well supposedly they have a movie being made for 2012. I happeend to type in Knight Rider and a list of things popped up including the movie. Just to let you know. I am not sure on how they are going to do it because they do not have anyone listed at all for the cast.

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[–] Flyer_1983 14 years ago

I dont think we will ever again see anything arise from the ashes of the Knight Rider Franchise.

Unless the car being driven in the remake was a Phoenix instead of a Mustang, I unfortunately don't see it happening.

It's a shame, though; it was a great series and it had a lot of potential.

[–] RobBase086-1 15 years ago

I agree with you there on the original idea. I would rather see that than the new version. I did not like it too well at all and it seemed to have gotten away from how the original was done.

I always figured that Devlin would have had a will where Michael Knight was then given Devlins share of Knight Industries. Where was the guy that was in the TV movie? I mean I was thinking in a way that they would have followed from that but did not though.

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[–] MuggySphere 14 years ago

That could not happen because Doctor Graives apparently had all the control of the money that FLAG and Knight Industries had...... His daughter Sarah now holds all the money so that wouldn't ever happen.

[–] Sovereign_Knight 14 years ago

Yeah, because nothing screams cool like a 50 something year old man who drives around in a 25 year old car solving mysteries. But he'll still get all the girls. Maybe they can get Jaclyn Smith, Kate Jackson or Cheryl Ladd to play the babe.

The fans want what you propose because they're realizing their own mortality. What better way to recapute your youth than watching a TV show you watched whe you were younger? The problem is you're not their target audience so they don't give a crap about you sh!tty idea. No one else should either because it's stupid!

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[–] ChakatBlackstar 14 years ago

It's the only way this show will ever pull in the audience after that dog sh!t nightmare attempt of a comeback that has just been cancelled . The Hoff isn't over the hill and could easily still play the part of Michael Knight, and there is no reason why Kitt in the Tran Am form ( and still easily the best car to pay the part ) along with William Daniels voicing Kitt again could not make a huge come back.

You mean other then the fact that "The Hoff" is a joke and that old Trans Ams aren't a dime a dozen anymore? Maybe because while fans want a remake of the classic Knight Rider everyone's cautious about remakes nowadays causing even good remakes to fail.

Keep it like the original with the HQ being on a moving lorry etc, and keep the story lines simple like the original.

Well...one I don't even know who Lorry is so please explain that, and two while people say they want simple story lines the truth is they prefer complicated story lines that you can only understand if you've watched most of the episodes. And the lame villains from the old Knight Rider just don't cut it in today's world of realistic criminal masterminds.

Does anyone else understand this, and if so can you explain it to me?

[–] Neil_Of_Cardiff 13 years ago

A moving Lorry ( British Term ) is a moving Truck, Freight, Rig etc... Well i'm sorry not one person on here likes the idea of bringing back the Hoff and the Pontiac for a brand new show. Guess you're not a die hard fan of the original like myself it seems.

[–] Sovereign_Knight 13 years ago

Or maybe they're such die hard fans that they'd rather preserve their memories from the '80s and move on with their lives instead of beijng stuck in the past. Tell me, do you still wear running shorts with piping too? Didn't think so.

Ohhh, a lesson in not changing history from "I'm my own grandpa".

[–] thebadwolf 11 years ago

i woul love to see KITT back it his original black trans-am shell but not with the hoff as the driver put him in a devon type role at the foundation. using KITT as he was would allow joke about the age of the car until of course he was destroyed and put in a new shell down the line preferable a new firebird.

But the voice of KITT is the most important thing old KITT had a personality and William Daniels did a vantastic job as the voice new KITT voice was too robotic and KITT didn't really have a personality.

Also the shape shifting sucked although to be fair so did super pursuit mode that came in late in the original series

[–] thebadwolf 8 years ago

Don't need the hoff but it does need William Daniels KITT was the star and had a personality where as the version in this had none also the transformer crap ruined it as did the lack of moleculer bonded shell

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[–] Utpe 8 years ago

Pretty much what everybody on here has stated:

• William Daniels is just about retired from acting. His voice has changed and he barely sounds like the KITT we remember from 30 years ago. Check out the Knight Rider commercial from 2012: https://youtu.be/M6tAgUcuNN0

• David Hasselhoff is a boozehound. I'm thoroughly surprised his liver isn't shot by now. Plus, I don't recall ever seeing him in anything as of recent. He may have been a judge on a reality T.V. show or something equivalent, but that's about it.

• As somebody here had pointed out, where are you going to get a 1980s Trans Am? Those cars are becoming harder to find, and NBC isn't going to bother promoting a 30 year old car because of nostalgia. If they can't make money from advertising a new vehicle, then they aren't going to bother.

• When Knight Rider (1982) originally aired on NBC, even they had problems trying to draw in an audience, and this was before internet piracy. The ratings were a letdown, NBC aired episodes out of order, and it was inevitably canceled/concluded after four seasons.

• Edward Mulhare & Glen A. Larson passed away, Patricia McPherson & Rebecca Holden hardly act, and Peter Parros is currently involved in another T.V. show.

• You had Knight Rider 2000 (1991) which was suppose to be the basis for a new show but was never picked up, also Knight Rider 2010 (1994) which I don't even know was or was not related to the original series, then Team Knight Rider (1997) which was canned after one season, and now this show which was also canned after one season and stood that way for the past several years.

• They've been working on a new Knight Rider (2018) movie for years and it has been in nothing but production hell. They can't seem to get it off of the ground.

• Last but not least, the technology in the original KITT is being or already was invented. There's nothing impressive about a car that, nowadays, has the capability to do most everything that they had envisioned back in the 1980s. I can see why the 2008 series failed miserably.