Knight Rider TV Series Greenlit
Posted by Chief Oddball in the morning on April 3rd, 2008NBC yesterday announced their fall TV lineup, and as many of us suspected, it includes a new Knight Rider TV series. The reinvented show will air in the 8 p.m. Wednesday timeslot, with encore episodes to air each Saturday night in the off-season (summer 2009).
In addition, the show is getting a new executive producer: Gary Scott Thompson, creator of TV’s recently-cancelled Las Vegas, and writer of The Fast and the Furious.
Judging from that, I guess we know what kind of a vibe the new Knight Rider will have — but I said I would tune in just the same, and I will. Could be an interesting ride.
I saw this news today also - and was also happy to see my own favorite show (Friday Night Ligthts) was reprieved. But they won’t have new episodes until next winter, which is probably the kiss of death because no one will remember what the hell was going on with the show. For god’s sake, all the kids will be grown up by next winter!
I hate the networks sometimes.
That huge gap between seasons (or half-seasons) is becoming a disturbing trend lately. You wind up with a single season having maybe fifteen episodes if you’re lucky, when a traditional full-season order was 23-25…and with these serial dramas, you completely forget all the stuff that was happening from one “chunk” to the next.
It’s no wonder these shows are getting canned for poor ratings; only the hardcore fans can keep up. Even though Battlestar is like this (we haven’t had new episodes since LAST MARCH!), I think it survives because pretty much every Battlestar fan is a hardcore fan!
Part of it is that some major network shows are getting so much like movies — special effects, post production, crack writing teams — that it costs too much to produce twenty-some episodes anymore. It’s sorta like video games, too…they’re more and more like interactive movies every day, but the total length of time you spend playing them to completion keeps dropping — while the cost and time spent to make them keeps spiraling way up.