There will be a two hour pilot this fall on NBC. According to Variety, if the pilot is successful, the producer Doug Liman will have the green light to get the production under way in 2008.
Ben Silverman from NBC decided to try out this series from the eighties, after he saw the success that the movie Transformers was this past summer.
In the original series, David Hasselhoff played Michael Knight, and he had a car that talked.
In 2006 the Weinstein brothers bought the rights to the series Knight Rider.