Fans of KITT and company’s latest reincarnation on TV rejoice: NBC has given your show about a talking car with turbo boosting options a full season order, which means even if the show doesn’t return for a second season, you’ll have a full first season to chew on. I wasn’t exactly the biggest fan of the show when it returned from its TV movie premiere as a regular series, but judging by the ratings for the show, people still aren’t very sure about it. But hey, maybe the show will grow on me.

I have to admit, I wasn’t a big fan of the original Knight Rider TV show, but I did give the recent reincarnation a chance when it first surfaced earlier this year. I also tuned in for the premiere of the ongoing TV show, but tuned out about 30 or so minutes later. The whole thing just looked … cheesy. What can I say? Even the treat of seeing the gorgeous Deanna Russo in her undies for about 10 minutes of the pilot didn’t do anything for the show’s overall quality. The backstory for the lead character also came across as incredibly cliche, and then they introduced some supposedly badass girl with a past to the hero, and … well, that’s pretty much when I tuned out of the pilot and haven’t come back since.

It looks like NBC isn’t pulling any punches, or skimping on the goodies, as they approach their relaunch of the new Knight Rider TV show. They’ve put the entire first episode of the regular series online ahead of the show’s September 24th debut, and you can watch it right now, right here (scroll down to the video below). See? Who says there’s nothing good on TV. Or, er, online right now.

NBC has released the official descriptions for the first three episodes of their Knight Rider relaunch. Word is the show has gone through a number of changes, which includes replacing the show’s original showrunner with Gary Scott Thompson (of Las Vegas fame). From the promos I’ve seen of the show, it also seems to have a glossier new look that is promising more sex appeal and action, which means fans of Deanna Russo, the show’s leading lady, will be getting more Deanna than previously. That won’t be hard to do; all she did in the 2-hour pilot was sit in a car or run around providing boring exposition.

Apparently when TV guy Gary Scott Thompson was hired to take over the reins of NBC’s upcoming Knight Rider revamp TV show, he read a lot of online reviews that mentioned the absence of the new KITT pulling out his turbo boot. Wow, really? I don’t think I even noticed there was no turbo boost in my review of the 2-hour backdoor pilot. But then again, I’m not the biggest fan of the old ’80s show, so I probably didn’t realize it wasn’t in the new version. Anyways, according to Thompson, there will be plenty of turbo boosting going on in the new Knight Rider with him in charge. Plus action. And a new cast.

I said it two months ago that after its better-than-expected performance in the ratings when it premiered with a two-hour movie, that the new Knight Rider was practically guaranteed a “go to series” order. Now NBC has made it official, announcing that they have greenlit the show about a talking car (voiced by Val Kilmer, of all people) for a full season. This is good news for fans who likes talking cars and miss the action shows from the ’80s, but not necessarily good news if you wanted quality programming from your TV. Then again, as long as it’s not yet another reality TV show, whose complaining?

I have to admit, while I enjoyed the Knight Rider TV movie, I didn’t exactly fall in love with it. Not that it matters, because the movie’s 2-hour premiere on Sunday gave NBC a major boost, scoring high ratings and beating its competitors by a healthy margin, and all but guaranteeing that the show will return as a regular series on NBC later this year.

KITT is back in a new Knight Rider TV series, which will premiere as a two-hour movie Sunday night, February 17, 2008. The movie is what people are calling a “back door” pilot — which basically means that if the movie scores well in the ratings, a TV series won’t be far behind. I’m guessing that this series is a Go anyway, because let’s face it, NBC needs another hit, and this show has hit written all over it. Here is our preview of Knight Rider.

Five new clips from the new Knight Rider TV series has appeared online. The new Knight Rider premieres as a 2-hour movie (or “back door pilot” as it’s being called) on February 17, 2008 on NBC. Mike Tracer, the knew Michael Knight, is a pretty good brawler. Check out Clip 4 as he goes mano-a-mano with a thug in a cramped hallway.

The Knight Rider backdoor pilot (set to premiere in less than two weeks on NBC) originally had Will Arnett as the voice of supercar KITT — that is, until car company GM found out that KITT was a Ford Mustang, and asked Arnett to pulled out. Being that voicing GM commercials is more lucrative than voicing a pilot for a possible TV show (I’m guessing, of course), Arnett agreed. Enter Val Kilmer, the new voice of KITT.

It took a while, but finally, promo images from the upcoming Knight Rider TV series have finally hit the net. These images showed up on io9, and shows the new lead, Justin Bruening as Mike Tracer attending some kind of funeral. Geez, I hope it’s not going to be a downer series. We got transforming cars here, folks!

Justin Bruening, the star of the new Knight Rider TV series, says his show has a little bit of “Transformers” in it, in that the new Kitt can morph “into different colors and actually morphs into an attack mode”. He goes on: “It grows a spoiler and becomes more aerodynamic than a stock Shelby Cobra.”