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3-3:30 p.m.: "Knight Rider," a shadowy flight into the world of a man... who does not exist.

Ben on the cozy relationship between "Knight Rider" and the car company that sponsors the show.

Graboff: "If there's too much product integration, we don't even like to call it product integration...we're trying to integrate it more organically with the show, in a way that is organic to the show, something that advertisers are comfortable with and the show runners, more importantly, are comfortable with. And which the viewers are ultimately comfortable with."

Did they go too far with 'Knight Rider'?

Ben: "Well, it's about a car, ultimately. . . that was the star of the show."

Knight Rider

The Knight Rider series will be quite different and more evolved than the two-hour TV movie. The differences begin first with showrunner Gary Scott Thompson (who previously created Las Vegas and The Fast and the Furious), who was given carte blanche to fabricate his own world. Though the basic characters from the movie will remain, certain character backstories will change. Mostly, the lesbian subplot with Sydney Tamiia Poitier's character introduced in the movie will possibly be altered.

There are also new characters who will help to maintain the car by working in what Thompson calls the KITT Cave. Thompson added that he has a long-term mythology plan for the series through at least two seasons which is based on the origins of KITT. He posed one question that he promises to answer throughout the series: “Why would you put artificial intelligence into a car?” Finally, despite rumors on the Internet, there are no plans for Thompson to bring characters from Las Vegas onto Knight Rider.

Knight Rider Panel
The Players: Justin Bruening, Yancy Arias, Bruce Davison, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Paul Campbell, Deanna Russo, Smith Cho and exec producers Doug Liman, Dave Bartis and Gary Scott Thompson
3:09 pm: Thompson doesn't rule out a cameo by The Hoff later in the season.
3:11 pm: Echoing the opinion of 98 percent of the critics in this room, Thompson felt the two-hour movie was lacking several things. Among them: "a turbo-boost." Interesting. I would've said "a decent script."
3:17 pm: Regarding reports (OK, one report) that Las Vegas' Danny and Delinda might make a cameo on KR, onetime Vegas EP Thompson confirms that the idea was broached in the writers' room, but, ultimately, he decided "it would be unfair to the fans of both shows to do that."
3:30 pm: It was just a phase! It's undecided whether Poitier's character will remain bisexual in the series. KITT, on the other hand, will continue to swing both ways.

Ben on the cozy relationship between "Knight Rider" and the car company that sponsors the show.

Graboff: "If there's too much product integration, we don't even like to call it product integration...we're trying to integrate it more organically with the show, in a way that is organic to the show, something that advertisers are comfortable with and the show runners, more importantly, are comfortable with. And which the viewers are ultimately comfortable with."

Did they go too far with 'Knight Rider'?

Ben: "Well, it's about a car, ultimately. . . that was the star of the show."

PHOENIXZERO wrote:I can live with and get over the emblems staying on the car even though they don't fit with what the "K" in KITT stands for, just as long as the damn thing isn't shot like a car commercial with the paying attention and focusing on them. At least one guy recognizes what a bad idea over doing the "product integration" can be. They shouldn't be at the mercy of Ford, at this point Ford should just be thankful for the promotion and potential sales boost it might lead to.. What's the MPG rating on the Mustang (all versions) these days?

neps wrote:
KITT, on the other hand, will continue to swing both ways.

neps wrote: http://shadowyflight.com/news/bfu.php?i ... ess%20Tour

Look, even Ford said it was way too much in the two-hour, and we are trying to avoid doing that. But we have a Ford car, and we are going to use the Ford product for that car, and that's just because we think the car is cool." The other cars on the roads, though, won't necessarily be Fords, which is at least an improvement from the movie.

Silverman thinks that the network may have "activated" too much product-placement in the Knight Rider movie. "But the star of the show is the car, so that was a case where it felt like low-hanging fruit to bring in an automotive partner on a certain level, because you know they're going to be part of that show no matter how you look at it." The contest ads during the commercial breaks, he cited, were probably what was the tipping point there. I dunno; I thought it was the fact that every car in the KR universe was a Ford.

neps wrote:I've consolidated all this information as well ass added some new photos here: http://shadowyflight.com/news/2008/07/n ... -rider.php

They really brought everyone out: http://shadowyflight.com/news/bfu.php?i ... ess%20Tour

KRAvengerII wrote:Seeing the photo of (I assume) the full cast, i'm starting to get "Bionic Woman" flashbacks... i wonder if ALL the cast members will be at comic-con, or just the main four? "fast and furious?" Oh man, I'm not sure about this...

Knight Rider Gets Turbo-Boosted

Gary Scott Thompson, the new executive producer and show runner of NBC's upcoming Knight Rider TV series, told SCI FI Wire that he's revamping the original concept from the two-hour telemovie/backdoor pilot that aired in February, mainly by beefing up the cast and amping up the action, after consulting the original 1980s series.

"I sat down and I looked at the first entire season before I wrote word one," Thompson (NBC's Las Vegas) said in an interview at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., on July 21. "I looked that the two-hour [movie] two or three times. ... And I really, seriously, read all the reviews, and I read all the online stuff, and tried to figure out exactly how you satisfy everybody. It's very difficult to satisfy everybody."

The main thing fans missed in the telemovie? "No turbo boost," Thompson said immediately. "No turbo boost. That was a million times: No turbo boost." He added that, in addition to people griping about using a Ford Mustang instead of the original Pontiac Trans Am as K.I.T.T., "they missed the Hoff [original Knight Rider star David Hasselhoff]. But, again, it's 25 years later, and you have to take the next step." Even though Hasselhoff had a cameo in the telemovie, he won't be in the series.

Mainly, though, the new series will introduce an ensemble cast as a support team for K.I.T.T. and his driver, Mike Traceur, played again by Justin Bruening. The cast will include telemovie stars Deanna Russo, Bruce Davison and Sydney Tamiia Poitier and will add Yancey Arias, Paul Campbell and Smith Cho.

And the series will amp up the action from the telemovie, in which the main characters spent a lot of time driving from point A to point B. "It was a lot of time driving, and you can't do that with an audience today," Thompson admitted. "I mean, look, our competition is not the other shows on TV. Our competition is Xbox. Simple as that. And when you look at what happens on an Xbox, if we're not emulating [or] at least getting someone to pay attention that way, then we're going to lose audiences completely."

Knight Rider debuts Sept. 24 and will air Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

KRAvengerII wrote: i wonder if ALL the cast members will be at comic-con, or just the main four? "fast and furious?" Oh man, I'm not sure about this...

Co-executive producers Doug Liman and Dave Bartis brought in Thompson, who was a writer for The Fast and the Furious movie franchise, after the two-hour movie was picked up as a series, to bring in a little juice. His goal is to make the show as "fast and furious" as those movies. To that end, he's expanded the cast to create a whole team of people to support Mike Traceur and KITT. Thompson said they'll work from a headquarters called the "KITT cave."

"The idea is to assemble a whole team," said Thompson, somewhat dismissively to a question about the additional cast members. "And it's going to get pretty boring in today's age to watch a guy in a car talk for 43 minutes. No offense to anyone, but we live in an age where you have seen Mission: Impossible, Bourne Identity, the new Batman movies, Iron Man, and the audience wants that, and they are looking for that."

PHOENIXZERO wrote:What was that about his only watching the first season before writing? I hope he finished the series before filming started. Oh and yeah the idea of the "KITT Cave" doesn't sound good, wasn't the HQ for Bionic Woman also placed in a cave? Or at least underground? Knight Rider isn't Batman.