The people behind the new Knight Rider are desperately trying their best to make it right and to make it last and do both at the same time. But what they aren’t doing is rushing it, and just throwing it at us and giving us a few explosive episodes and dropping the ball later in the season

SciFi Wire reports.

Ben Silverman, co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios, said that the network took the lessons it learned the hard way from its failed reboot Bionic Woman and applied them to the upcoming remake of Knight Rider. “We saw it with [Fox’s] Terminator [The Sarah Connor Chronicles], and we saw it with Bionic Woman: big openings, big branded titles, draw open the tent, and the show didn’t deliver on that $10 million pilot,” Silverman said in response to a SCI FI Wire question during the network’s upfront presentation to advertisers in New York on April 2. “What we’re doing with Knight Rider is we consciously delivered it on air [in February] so that we had nine months to make sure that series is great.”

I hope this isn’t just talk, that they are taking the time and proper care to making a great show, one that lasts. I guess, we’ll know this fall!
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