NBC Now Pulling Plug On ‘Knight Rider’

COMMENTS (41)

• Let’s be honest….. the show was brutal.

  Comment by B.S. Factor — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 3:33pm PST  Reply to this post

• I think Rosie O’Donnell’s variety show beats that record, the series was cancelled about ten minutes into the debut episode.

  Comment by Furious D — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 3:37pm PST  Reply to this post

• I dunno. I think I see a promotion in Ben Silverman’s future. Tanking the schedule did wonders for Jeff Zucker’s career.

  Comment by Mike — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 3:44pm PST  Reply to this post

• I think Nikki’s referring to the collective performance of NBC’s new shows, not just this one in particular.

  Comment by Dave — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 3:46pm PST  Reply to this post

• They should do a new version of The Apprentice in search of somebody to properly program the NBC schedule!

  Comment by TBW — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 3:53pm PST  Reply to this post

• What a horrible show. It makes the original look good. Ouch. It should’ve never made it past the pilot.

  Comment by Josh — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 4:02pm PST  Reply to this post

• and you pick up Chuck? All you have is Heroes and Sunday Night Football. Silverman put the joint down, football is almost over.

  Comment by hows the weed? — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 4:12pm PST  Reply to this post

• Hopefully “Chuck” gets recognized at The Globes because that show needs some more attention from NBC. And it’s ratings are actually improving…

  Comment by JS — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 4:17pm PST  Reply to this post

• NBC will always be able to keep Merlin.

  Comment by wamdue — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 4:36pm PST  Reply to this post

• The show as it was made was never ever going to work. The thing that baffles me the most is how these showrunners get jobs?

  Comment by michael dobrofsky — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 4:37pm PST  Reply to this post

• They should have kept Las Vegas on the air.

  Comment by brian — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 4:45pm PST  Reply to this post

• Do you think they also wake up and realize they picked up Kath and Kim for back 9 and go WHATTTTTTT???

  Comment by pimilicious — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 5:02pm PST  Reply to this post

• This show had potential, but that potential was lost somewhere inside yet another secretive anti-terrorist government organization. I think if the show could have followed along more “normal” lines of action of just a few people in possession of a really great piece of technology out there helping Joe the Truck Driver it could have been better.

  Comment by Jason Barnette — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 5:42pm PST  Reply to this post

• All you have is Heroes and Sunday Night Football. Silverman put the joint down, football is almost over???

  Hardly. You forget the best show on NBC and on TV period. 30 Rock!

  Comment by hoodincoggles — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 6:09pm PST  Reply to this post

• They should really bring back LAS VEGAS that show always did consistently well in the ratings, at the very least they should do a 2hr wrap up movie

  Comment by jeff — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 6:14pm PST  Reply to this post

• There is a piece in the latest issue of LA Confidential about Silverman and his giant PP home. It talks about his championing the following hit shows: Lipstick Jungle, Knight Rider, and two other EPIC FAILS. He had hits with Reveille because he stole shows from other markets and made them for the US. BUT he has way more whiffs than hits. Who could sit there, watch the Kinght Rider pilot, with the current TV landscape– MAD MEN, THE WIRE, LOST, and think this crap would fly? He is successful (in his previous career) in spite of himself.

  Comment by Hamm — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 6:24pm PST  Reply to this post

• Good riddens. The show was almost as pathetic as the job Silverman has done at NBC!

  Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 6:25pm PST  Reply to this post

• Nice try. Golden Globes for Chuck??? ha

  Comment by JS is josh schwartz — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 6:26pm PST  Reply to this post

• LOL Silverman is a fuck-up, just like Zucker. It’s pretty hilarious to watch these clowns bump into each other and compliment the other on doing such a “bang-up job” LOL what a bunch of fucking idiots! KR was a BOMB from the get-go…AND they KNEW IT! They “picked it up” to save face and posture that they knew what they were doing and everything was fine…couple that with the DISASTER that is Kath & Kim and OY!!! The Emperor has no clothes! These guys should be banished to programming the local cable hub. Of course, they would screw that up too….

  Comment by TVFAN — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 7:22pm PST  Reply to this post

• Beyond pathetic. This is the same network that only airs Notre Dame college games. I mean, are they actually trying to destroy the entire NBC brand? What they are doing makes no logical, creative or business sense. Please, Nikki, try to explain – if you can.

  Comment by savvydude — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 7:42pm PST  Reply to this post

• It would have been cheaper to finally get rid of Ben and air the last shows. The Jeff and Ben show – It is like watching someone trying to stop from drowning while holding onto someone who is drowning.

  Comment by Joey — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 7:48pm PST  Reply to this post

• I have an idea, Zucker. Reboot another show like Bionic Woman or Knight Rider, confuse the curiosity ratings for the TV movie with actual quality and then order a season of the show.

  Then hire crappy writers and cancel the show within one season.

  Oh, wait. I forgot you’re rebooting The Partridge Family. Kind of hard to make a joke when you keep doing the same thing.

  Comment by Jamie — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 7:57pm PST  Reply to this post

• I agree with the two above comments.

  LAS VEGAS was a solid consistent show. There was zero reason to cancel it with the network in such sad shape. Other nets take shows like this and build them up steadily into hits. Look at NCIS.

  I saw the cancellation of Las Vegas as one of the most glaring signs that nobody at NBC has a clue how to program.

  Comment by Jack — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 8:01pm PST  Reply to this post

• What about My Own Worst Enemy, why cancel that? It was in a really bad time slot at 10 p.m. Where’s the loyalty to try out the shows a little longer?

  Comment by Cathy — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 8:06pm PST  Reply to this post

• Does anyone else find the look of these shows alone (ie Knight Rider) to be dreadful?! I don’t even get to the terrible material, I see 2 seconds of it and tune it out.

  High gloss photography with the same lighting. Model-like, but vanilla actors with zero depth. Sure this could have been said for decades, it just seems to be so much worse in the digital age, over the last 5 years or so…

  Comment by B. Real — Wednesday December 3, 2008 @ 8:22pm PST  Reply to this post