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NBC Gives KNIGHT RIDER Full First-Season Order!!
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Despite horrible reviews and mediocre ratings, 4th-place NBC has extended fall's worst show to a full season.
I guess this means David Hasselhoff will get to make another appearance as the new Knight Rider’s dad.
Somewhere, Dan Vasser weeps a single tear.
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...watch Knight Rider are voting for Obama. Or they are 12 years old.
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Oct 20, 2008 10:45:09 PM CDT
WHEN IS NBC GOING TO GET A FULL SEASON ORDER OF
by total fucking destruction
TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION?
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...you know the show rules. The car tranforms. The women look good. Last week they had undercover names "Bonnie" and "Devon". Awesome. Possible Hasselhoff cameos? Maybe with original car?? Awesome Er. Don't hate, just set your DVR. At the least, you can keep talking about how much you hate it while you watch every episode.
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No it fucking doesn't. Tit.
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...shut the frack up, Michael!
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DAMN YOU MICHAEL BAY! DAMN YOU!!!
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I'm 37, and I'm happily going to vote for Obama..sucka!
www.palinaspresident.com
this is why...move around the screen, and look for the drip on the desk!
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Shit Rider is on and Journeyman is dead? Really? FUCK YOU
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Batsuit Optimus Prime.
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When I saw the headline, I thought, "Damn, they give a full order for that crapfest, but no Journeyman." and then the Dan Vasser line. Made me laugh, dude.
He's now on dyed his hair an unrealistic red, put on an Army uniform, and started banging the ugly chic on Grey's Anatomy. What a fricking waste.......... -
I guess it's no surprise that NBC sucks
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Actually, why DIDN'T he just have a cool car? They could've worked it in somehow...maybe there's another comet thing and he loses his powers, but that mysterious time travel scientist tells Dan that he still needs his help. So he gives him this DeLorean he's been working on, see...
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You asshats will stay in last place until you wise up and shitcan that clueless fuck Zucker.
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its a decent show, not as good as journeyman...but a decent show..i like that producers cleaned up the tv movie and put in some things that were missing, namely turbo boost and a transformation sequence reminiscent of super pursuit mode...the other transformation is hot too, the 4wd...im wondering what other vehicles k.i.t.t will eventually be able to morph into...but im glad the show will have a full season to draw in the viewers or all the haters will have their way and it wont be renewed....
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threw up in my mouth a little.
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I just got sick to my stomach reading that.
After NBC's new slate of shows this year they deserve to be on the same level with the CW. Disgusting. -
I'm glad we only get 13 episodes of Friday Night Lights that we can't even watch until January but we get 22 episodes of this abortion of a television program. I don't know if I'm more mad at the executives making decisions at NBC or the people that actually watch this.
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...followed by another. And another. And another.
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHA oh that's rich HHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA
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I am cancelling NBC. First Journeyman, if they cancel Life and keep Knight Rider.... I am going to snap.
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Guess here's the proof.
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I suspect NBC owns KR, hence it makes it more worth their while to keep it on the air. They may not have the same ownership of Life. If they do, then expect it to stay on board for now.
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Oct 21, 2008 12:04:26 AM CDT
I haven't watched TV since Venture Bros. ended.
by helpful electronic lab partner robot
I have a sneaking suspicion that I won't watch it again until VB comes back... in 2010.
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Yeah. This may or may not be one of the seven signs of the apocalypse. I mean, is anyone really watching this? Someone high up must be getting one hell of a blow job.
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Who have no idea about what human's like to watch...or are conducting evil, mind altering experiments on us. I swear. I think there is something written about it in one of those recently revealed, confidential files involving U.F.O sightings that the English Government has just revealed to the world. Down here, in Australia. No matter how good a show is, if it doesn't pull the numbers in the first week, it gets canned. Yet, I imagine when Knight Rider finaly gets screened here, it'll be shown for a full run. I can't figure the meathead's out who dictate such programming. And we, as the consumer, the everyman, has to be subjected to it. Hey, maybe it's a big conspiracy for us to actually turn the telly off and go outside. Read a book. Talk to our family's??? That's the only rationale I can think of. And I'll be damned, it's working! Bravo Alien beings!
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Fuck the What?
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NBC gives a full season to absolute crap. The Tampa Bay Rays will sweep the Phillies in the World Series. The election is going to go horribly wrong. The economy won't make a comeback anytime soon. Soup kitchens will be the new 5-star dining experience. The G8 summits will consist of OPEC countries only. We may not live long enough to see "Watchmen". And the next Val Kilmer film will co-star Terrance Howard! (who wants to be in charge of handing out the cyanide pills and "magic" kool-aid?)
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Oct 21, 2008 12:27:19 AM CDT
NBC gotta fulfill that product placement contract with Ford
by mr spork
otherwise they would probably shitcan it.
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I mean, cmon, a Knight Rider TB every frickin week, no CHUCK? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Tonight's ep was Sara-Centric--that is a GOOD THING.
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fwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
hehe.. hehehehe...
bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
hehe, shhheeeeshhh. phew. man. but seriously, it's not, right? -
You NBC FUCKS!
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You fuck over Life by putting it on Fridays, you CANCEL JOURNEY MAN and then you pick up this dreck for a full 22 eps?
FUCK YOU NBC.
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Heroes is starting to suck again and this bullshit show gets renewed. Knight Rider is a show AB King would splooge himself over.
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Now, I will admit that Knight Rider is terrible, but the worst show? Have you not seen Valentine, Easy Money, Do Not Disturb, Worst Week, Gary Unmarried or Kath and Kim?
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What the hell were you guys thinking remaking that? It's about Australian white trash. It can NOT be emulated. The humour in it is distinctly AUSSIE! No sanitized carbon copy was ever going to cut it. Period!
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"The worst ratings get, the more powerful I become," he said.
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I can't believe Knight Rider gets a full season, but Journeyman didn't. :(
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Tartikoff is at about 1000rpm right now.
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It's called My Name Is Earl.
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God would not allow this show to continue, thus there is no God.
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It was single-handedly the biggest mindfuck 'what-the-hell is this shit' moment I've had since...I honestly don't know.
It was the one where KITT was on fire and they had to take all their clothes off when going through a tunnel. The acting wasn't toungue in cheek, it wasn't post-modern nor ironic - it was just fucking bad
I laughed, but only in the knowledge that the final 60 seconds of Journeyman had more promise and possibility that 22 eps of this pants could ever have -
This is that douche's baby. The coke snorting retard.
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Is this the Supernatural talkback?
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Gets a lot of praise in talkbacks, whenever something shit is renewed then it gets a mention. Is it worth me watching the few episodes that were made? Or will it annoy me that there are no more to close plots etc?
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If little kids are watching Knight Rider, then shouldn't there be toys based on it for sale?
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if knightrider can make it...any piece of shit can...so bring back all the bad sitcoms and dramas...shit, when i was a little kid, i thought my mother the car was the bomb...and i can still humm the theme song...oh and then, bring back "its about time" then my life will be complete, and i will blow my brains out
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but seriously, Knight Rider is $$supported by Ford so NBC's cost is less, add in sales to overseas markets and Knight Rider becomes a financial winner, no matter the ratings...Course the rating in the key demo arent that bad either...
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and to execubot alpha who rolls a dice to determine the fall schedule.......FFS
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I still want those fuckers at NBC drawn & quartered. But now with the renewal of Knight Rider, which must cost a hell of alot more than Journeyman did, I want the drawn & quartered while on fire while the Woodland Critters from South Park rape the remains.
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They knew they weren't getting renewed and tried to wrap things up somewhat. The end will make you angry because you can see where it would have gone, but there is some closure.
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It would be a tragedy if every programme on US tv was this dumb, but sometimes I'm in the mood for something stupid. It's no worse than the original series, which was even dumber...
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and Herc in that they green lit this piece of shit and cancel a great show like Journeyman.
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Seriously, I tried one or two episodes. I just can't take it. I mean the last episode was basically wall to wall hot chicks in bikinis, but that didn't even save it for me. I don't know if we should've expected the show to be any better than the original. But worse?
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A time-traveling talking car sponsored by a car company. Then it would have been picked up for a full season.
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I saw half of one episode and thought-that the show was much better when it was called Quantum Leap-and never tuned in again
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I saw half of one episode and thought-that the show was much better when it was called Quantum Leap-and never tuned in again
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wondering if he should check it out, definitely do but go in with your expectations in check - not flavoured by the constant namechecks by talkbackers
As mentioned above I do hold Journeyman in high regard, because it was a solid interesting show. Not earth shattering, not influential and certainly would never attract stellar ratings. Just a decent well made show that had genuine family appeal
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Did it get better or something? I can't imagine it. I watch a lot of crap but even I couldn't stomach this turd. NBC has taken a nose dive this year. And of course, there will be raises for all involved.
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the shows only have one thing in common and that is time travel. Before making an opinion, maybe you should do lil more research than watching for 30 freakin mins.
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time traveler goes back to fix things right? as i said watched about 1/2 of an episode. the actors/characters didnt grab me... and i thought been here with QL and liked it better- is why i asked if it was any good-apparently not considering it didnt last....course we are talking about NBC here....
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yet this shit lives?
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Make the man a regular on the show and the ratings (and quality) will go up. Jeez, it's pretty simple.
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...I'm sure a fistful of Emmys are right around the corner
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Jeez. They're making money whether or not someone watches it, because it's all just one big product placement/advertisement block. It's not just Ford, either. It's the background, too. This show is like some of the 90s James Bond flicks with its constant, blatant product placement.
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Wow, well that is surprising. I thought this turd on television wouldn't make it past the midseason point. I watched the TV movie with high expectations in March, but couldn't even make it all the way through that. I've seen 2 episodes of the show, and it's beyond awful. NBC has sure gone downhill, but they still have some good stuff (Chuck - just got into, The Office; I'll be giving Crusoe a chance).
For whoever said "Worst Week" was an example of a terrible show, that show is wall-to-wall hilarious and deservedly the most popular new comedy. -
Oct 21, 2008 10:33:43 AM CDT
"im wondering what other vehicles k.i.t.t will eventually be abl
by big jim
Whatever Ford tells them to use.
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"im wondering what other vehicles k.i.t.t will eventually be able to morph into"
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at least in our local market-anybody know if it was national?- Sunday at 1 EST....'course there target market was watching FOOTBALL
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NBC is creatively bankrupt. I get that they think that the world is going to hell in a hand basket...so let's just pump out some mindless, fluffy entertainment for the masses.
That steamy pile called "Crusoe"? OMG! I've seen better episodes of "Beastmaster"! It's "LOST" (flashbacks included!)...with a dash of "Pirates of the Carribean"...minus the great writing. I swear a 5-year old wrote that script.
"Heroes" has been allowed to devolve into a bad teen "Superfriends", which "Smallville" has already been mining successfully for years without becoming a silly comic book soap opera.
Now "Knight Rider" gets a pass? I caught a few minutes of it the other night, and I swear I thought I was watching "Baywatch 2008".
If it wasn't for Thursday nights (until 10pm) and Sunday Night Football...I would never watch NBC. I hear great things about "Life"...but I couldn't even tell you when it was on. -
Worst Week (6.0/9) beat it. But Chuck and Myh Own Worst Enemy did even worse-r.
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Apologies...
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The last watchable thing they show.
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Sam went to one time to "put right what once went wrong" and then leap to another time to do the same again in the next episode. Dan would go back to change one thing then return to the present where he could find out about the person he helped only to be sent back again to help them along further (like in the first episode he saves a guy from getting hit by a trolley, then goes back a few years after that to keep him together with his girlfriend, then goes back to a few years later to keep him from killing his girlfriend and their child). He would make several trips in the same episode.Sam would leap into the bodies of other people. Dan would physically travel in time. Not only could he interact with family and friends, but would on occasion have to avoid running into himself. Plus he would need to explain his sudden absences from his present life.
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Howfuckingridiculous. Big Jim is right, Journeyman was in no way the same show as Quantum Leap. When Dan would go back some of his jumps directly affected his life later on, besides those he helped.
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is dangling by a slender thread...Damn you Nielsen viewing monkeys!!
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But this bullshit lame ass Knight Rider show gets a full season order. Original ideas are punished on Network TV. That's why HBO gets all the accolades. Even AMC got one right. That's why NBC sucks ass. Without The Office I would never watch the network.
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Quantum Leaps explaination was a bit weak.....how was Journeymans?
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consistently good TV,Pushing Daisies is a close 2nd...
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The last episode does give some answers but they left it open in case the show got picked up. More of a sense of what is going on rather than an explanation. It doesn't get tied up in a nice neat package but, as said above, there is some closure to the series at the end.
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Oct 21, 2008 11:28:44 AM CDT
serious question; did ANYBODY expect quality out of Knight Rider
by j2talk
I mean considering the source material, what did people expect? I've caught 2 episodes with my son...he enjoyed it...gives him something to watch while I watch Criminal Minds
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I'm waiting...
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I thought Herc hated Heroes more than anything? Still, "Knight Rider" is garbage. It is by far the worst new show.
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It seems not.
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how t is this show getting a full season order, and good shows like journeyman get canceled!!!???
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The only consistent thing on the internet is inconsistency. Battlestar Galactica returns, geared to todays audiences and half the internet laments the fact that it is not a direct continuation. Star Wars and Indiana Jones are resurrected and are burnt at the stake for not being enough like the earlier episodes. V is announced to be returning, albeit retooled, "I WONT BE WATCHING etc,etc". Knight Rider rises for the dead and whats this ? its got plenty of action and plenty of tits and ass and not much more on its mind than giving its audience 43 mins thought free distraction. With the notable exception of Rocky and Rambo its the only thing in the last 18yrs to return as true to its original form as the day it went awol. And based on the previous reactions to other franchises one would assume this would garner it a hero's welcome. FAT FUCKIN' CHANCE! , YES its corny, YES its underplotted and over-acted, YES its probably a little un-pc, YES its getting bad reviews, in other words its EXACTLY like the original. They have finally recaptured the tone of something virtually to the letter and what happens ? (adopt whiny child voice) "its not much like the other shows on now is it" Any producer or exec trying gauge their next move by the measure of the plebs opinions on the internet would finish their days FUCKING insane !
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Perhaps the real question here is whether or not anyone should ever have thought remaking Knight Rider was a good idea.
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There. I said it. Watched every single episode. Picked alot of it apart and have been very critical of it. That said, again, I like it. Not proud of it, but I do.
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Knight Rider delivers EXACTLY what it should....come on people what did you really expect out of it ?!?!?!
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the original show was shit...but can be excused because tv was full of shit then...dukes of hazzard, the a-team, etc...god awful shows for the moronic tv viewer....many here keep hoping that tv and the viewer will evolve...but what we see is reality shows and more crap...people got upset at the new star wars and indy because they sucked, as compared to the originals...nobody was pissed at bsg...in fact, most are pleasantly surprised that there is at least one tv exec who took a chance, took a shit show, and did improve on it...but if shows like knight rider become successful, there really is no hope for american tv or the american people...and i am now sure that mccain will win on november 4, for we are truly a nation of morons
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Oct 21, 2008 4:05:10 PM CDT
"They have finally recaptured the tone of something virtually to
by rokurgepta
you're right, the gay squirt gun fight fits the tone of the original... *sarcasm*
honestly, they need to have the semi-truck.... and the transforming, is just fucked... the pickup truck transforms, and suddenly the people in the bed of the pickup truck, are in the seat of the mustang.... i'm assuming it's the nano technology that lets the car transform, but I just don't believe it... the mass of a full sized van, or a pick up trick, are way more then a little mustang.... the acting fucking sucks, the storyline is not interesting, and not believable.... give me a show with some fucking substance or fail -
That is all.
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this show sucks chocolate salty balls.
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Oct 21, 2008 5:39:44 PM CDT
I watched a couple of eps of "Team Knight Rider" on Hulu the oth
by themikejonas
And they were much better than this crap.
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Ford is keeping this thing alive. On the plus side, a similar deal with Dodge is keeping Terminator going and that show is relatively decent. Is viewership no longer the metric but instead how many cars get sold?
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No Journeyman, but they keep this.. As of right now, LIFE is the only NBC show I watch.. If they cancel it, I will only watch NBC when football is on..
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Thanks a lot N-fucking-BC.
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Thats all carry forth but whose No#1 2 and 3 if NBC is 4th
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Still mentioned in a good way......sigh...
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Mentalist is to Psych.
House is to Scrubs.
Medium is to Ghostbusters.
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I forgot the details but basically its an ability certain people have had throughout time but now there are only two people left. Mckidds character could have taken a drug to stop the traveling but he decided that this was his destiny and it ended With his wife actually seeing him phase out in front of her eyes.
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I dont blame the guy who turned it off after the 1st 1/2 hour because I did love Journeyman Except for the 1st episode till the end I thought he would have to spend the whole season trying to convince his wife this was actually happening but once I saw we were not going to have one of those "Who's the Boss" plotlines I was fine, and from then on I liked it a hell of a lot more then QL.
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"It's just the stench of our show, KITT..."
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It's the crime SOLVING Ford POS.
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Stop fighting.
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...it really is. Last night I could not watch more than 5 minutes of it before my mind started to shut down. Someone is screwing someone's brains out to keep this shit-stick on the air...
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BULLSHIT!
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You had such a promising career. After playing such great roles in the movies Deadwood, Batman III, and the Doors, I thought you had a great future as an A-list, Hollywood star. Now, you are a fat, bloated, z-list has-been, who is the voice of a "car" on the worse show on network television. What the fuck happened? I am not joking, I really want to know.
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I concede that the point of why remake Knight rider is un-avoidable Spidermonkee. But to that i say, its probably the same reason The A Team is about to become a movie, some may not like those shows. But millions did and still do. You cant label people stupid just solely because they like this kind of entertainment bacci40. 16 million people a week watched The A team here in the UK when it aired originally (that was nearly a 3rd of the country population circa 1984) and the repeats are never off now. Bravo are currently showing the whole run again for what must be the seventh time in the last 4 years. The same goes for Knight Rider, shite or not it was massively popular in its day. Hence MR Exec trawling through his back catalogue looking for remake fodder must have been counting his lucky stars when he blew the dust off that one. Star Wars and Indy again, sorry you didnt like it , but the average punter clearly did, to the tune of God knows how many billion in collective gross for all 4 films. Yes the money isnt a reflection of quality, but this is mass entertainment and clearly the mass was entertained and the "mass" doesnt really care how they measure up to the old ones, to them its just a disposable pleasure. Nobody was pissed about Battlestar ? so when i spoke to Katee whatsherface in Manchester a couple of years ago now, she must have been talking about another Battlestar remake when she said to me and i quote "i get so many people asking me why Starbuck's a woman now and what happened to the shows original format!". I saw the clips at Comic Con when that guy said "Starbuck was a cigar smoking, womaniser, we loved him" cue large cheer from audience. Personally i love the new show, still love the old one as well, its funky 70's disco cheese, reminds me of being a nipper. I say richer is the man (or woman) who can walk on both sides of the televisual street. If you can just laugh and enjoy the frivolous on the surface, but also appreciate the depth of emotion or edification of other efforts, then surely your palette is the more diverse for it ?
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Goes to sleep at night on a mountain of cash! Hey I record my voice and get paid = easy money!
The new knight rider is shit - the only good thing is the fit lead chick, apart from that even the lame pilot beats it - attack mode my ass, the 80's version looked more advanced.
Speaking of the 80's shows - A Team, Knight Rider, Airwolf, Dukes of Hazzard - they are legend - mainly cos pissed they are funny as fuck, anyone dissing them get the fuck out of dodge!
NBC are the new Fox cancelling quality and replacing it with turd - fox never lost that title by the way NBC now join them in the league of "Our TV execs are coke fiends, and do not recognise quality FULL STOP"
Fuck it - Streethawk was legend too - sooo bad it turned mint -
...if Will Arnett had been kept as KITT. It'd still be crap, but it'd be much more entertaining crap, just as I felt Batman & Robin would've been a little less painful with Patrick Stewart instead of Arnold Schwarzenegger as Freeze.
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How people are watching this over the wonderful Pushing Daisies is beyond me.
Journeyman was much better than this turd of a show and this get a whole year? -
Terminator got renewed... Herc, No bone to throw for it?
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