Knight Rider Premieres on SciFi UK


Last night, the UK channel Sci-Fi finally premiered the new season of Knight Rider! They started with the two hour pilot and will follow through with the rest of the series each week. We think it will be a pretty interesting trip for the viewers, as they'll go from Andron's TV Movie to Gary Scott Thompson's series in much shorter time. We had nearly seven month break between the two, so the changes seemed more natural.

If you are in the UK - let us know how it was! And did you watch the series already via the internet? If you missed it's airing last night, it will be repeated at 5pm on Saturday and 7pm on Sunday.

Here are a few articles from the UK that was sent to us by Matt. Be sure to check out our Knight Rider 2008 section for synopsis, teasers and screenshots from all the episodes.

From Orange UK:

To men of a certain age, David Hasselhoff will forever be the epitome of leather jump-suited cool and absolutely not a washed-up alcoholic who’s never quite lived down that claim to have single-handedly dismantled the Berlin Wall. And sure enough, The Hoff crops up for a cameo at the end of this series opener, albeit in a scene emitting a more pungent stench of cheese than a 60-year-old slab of Stinking Bishop.

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  • It's worth noting that Knight Rider appeared in the majority of the weekend's TV supplements and newspapers, mainly to positive reports and the Radio Times one above (which I'll admit on first reading I took to be very negative) is probably the worst, but it's actually tongue-in-cheek and even it says that if you know what to expect you'll enjoy it :) My fave was the Irish Mail on Sunday's description: "This modern version has a macho, hard-driven attitude and a car that's on the fantastic side of cool, a Ford Mustang voiced by Val Kilmer." :D

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