Knight Rider on rocky road
It's starting to sound like the beginning of the end for the revived action series.
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The cast and crew of Knight Rider were informed this week that the show’s 17th episode will be its last for the season, to air on February 25.
The network has recently said it plans to overhaul the show to function as more of a crime-of-the-week procedural. Those format changes are still going to air in the coming weeks, but the cutback tips there is little expectation that a revamp will reverse a ratings decline. Its most recent episode was watched by 5.2 million viewers.
Speculation suggests that unless there’s marked improvement between now and the finale, it’s unlikely to return in front of the cameras.
In Australia, Seven promised the show would be fastracked in October. The telemovie, starring Justin Breuning, actually aired in September -but given that aired earlier in 2008, it was no fastrack. It managed 902,000 on the same night as the AFL Grand Final.
NBC sources say they do not consider the show cancelled.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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Ive seen the first few eps….not great, but PD was brilliant!!!!
The tv movie was pretty sucky, but i didn’t mind the handful of episodes I saw of the series.
It still annoys me how studios give this sort of show a chance, and then don’t give a chance to shows of much higher quality which rate better.
well ive got the 8 eps that have been on so far & its not the greatest series in the world but its an enjoyable way to kill an hour [40mins ] ,
There already was a reboot of The Love Boat about a decade ago, as Love Boat: The Next Wave. It had Robert Urich and Phil Morris (from the late 80s rehash of Mission Impossible)… And a guest appearance by ALF. It lasted 2 seasons.
Greatest American Hero is getting a remake as a movie (or telemovie). I always found Las Vegas very Love Boat. Same principle as Fantasy Island with guest stars coming in for a wild or romantic story….
They need the Hoff to save this turkey.
what next remake of The Love Boat or Greatest American Hero
I still say PD should have been done on a small cable channel. It’s just not network fodder, and was never, ever going to get the big numbers ABC crave.
This is the time to show it 7. It doesn’t look like it’s got much life left in it and they won’t show it during the ratings season so they should show it by January (they probably won’t but they should).
Yes Benno at times the TV movie made it look like everyone in the US owned a new Ford, if that was the case they wouldn’t be asking their government for billions of dollars right now!
Perhaps the ford promotion put people off. I haven’t seen it, but that’s the vibe i’m getting. The link between the networks and the production companies does have an impact on whether it stays on air, but PD is getting lower ratings than KR and ABC’s average shows get higher ratings than NBC’s.
Well Pushing Daisies had the same dismal ratings as KR, BUT KR had the advantage of being a Universal production airing on NBC, which is owned by Universal. Pushing Daisies ran on ABC, which is owned by Disney, but the show itself was produced by Warner Bros, ergo, less corporate synergy to motivate them to keep it on air. Sadly, that’s how the business sometimes works.
I quite like the new Knight Rider, it might be a bit corny, and a lot far fetched, but its a hell of a lot more entertaining than most other shows.
According to IMDB 2 regular cast members have been dropped from the show already to save costs.
Why are we having this discussion when gems like Pushing Daisies are getting shot in the head!
I’m waiting on a friend to send be this, don’t trust that ch7 will air it any time soon, a summer launch would have been good.