Knight Rider vrooms closer to pickup

NBC sends good message to bad show, picks up order for more scripts; will Knight ride on?

Super sports car K.I.T.T. is closer to becoming a pickup. NBC has inched closer to ordering a full season of Knight Rider, defying odds and critics' voices at the same time.

Knight Rider at Kath & Kim's funeral.

The network has ordered more scripts of the freshman series, says The Hollywood Reporter, which is generally a good inkling that Knight Rider will be give a full-season pickup.

This probably comes as a shock to the many television critics across the country, as Knight Rider has been totaled by boob-tube journalists and is by far the worst reviewed show of the new season, according to Metacritic.com.

Still, struggling NBC has surprisingly ordered four more scripts of the remake. So far, the ratings have been a bit of a disappointment since Knight Rider went to series. The mini-series/backdoor pilot that aired earlier this year did surprisingly well, but since its regular debut last month, numbers have been down and sliding.

Knight Rider stars Justing Bruening as Michael Traceur, who forms a crime-fighting duo with his high-tech sentient car K.I.T.T. Also starring are Deanna Russo as the token hottie (and she does a great job at that), Sydney Tamiia Poitier, and Bruce Davison.

The only other show to receive an order for more scripts so far has been CBS' Mentalist, which has performed stellar. New shows 90210 and Fringe are the only two to have already received full-season pickups.

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