NBC’s Official Knight Rider Website has posted highlights from Wednesday night’s episode, Knight To King’s Pawn. In this clip, you can see the shutting down of the SSC! It’s only available to Knight Rider fans in the US, but if you can, check them out!

NBC.com: Knight To King’s Pawn Highlights

K.A.R.R.!

It’s the one that we’ve all been waiting for… Knight To King’s Pawn!

“Time to fight back — Sarah is not coping well with her father’s death and decides to leave town. Concerned, Mike goes looking for her and in return gets the answers he has been searching for about his past. Meanwhile, the NSA has decided to dismantle the SSC now that Dr. Graiman is dead and they can then move forward with K.I.T.T.’s nemesis K.A.R.R. With Torres’ permission they take out K.I.T.T.’s chip that contains his personality and memories and place it in K.A.R.R. Upset by what has happened, Mike, Sarah, Billy and Zoe devise a plan to find where K.I.T.T. has been taken and get him up and running and destroy the evil K.A.R.R. once and for all.”

It’s on NBC at 8/7c, and you do not want to miss this one!

Knight Rider Online caught the teaser for next week’s epic battle between K.I.T.T. and K.A.R.R.! The episode — Knight to King’s Pawn — airs next Wednesday night, 8/7c! Don’t miss it!

The UK’s SFX magazine has a new interview with Gary Scott Thompson regarding the current “reboot” we’re seeing, and the new direction that Knight Rider is taking. It’s a situation the network has forced on the showrunner, he reveals.

“When we spoke, NBC were still leading me to believe we were going in a certain direction,” Thompson tells the magazine. “We had written scripts and shot episodes that detailed Mike’s past and had flashbacks to what happened, and these were things we were forced to take out — kicking and screaming, by the way. They just felt it was too dark. But it wasn’t; it was just telling what happened and him trying to piece together his memory. It gave a sense of mystery that’s missing and made it stand out more than just being a fluffy show.

“We had pitched NBC on the first 13 episodes and his backstory was a big part of that, so that by the time we got to episode 13 we had pieced together the puzzle, and from 13 to 22 we’d sort of solve what was left to solve about it. Once the network saw the cut of [A Hard Day’s Knight], they had us rip all of it out and it’s been a scramble to replace it. This is really the network’s reboot. They don’t like when I say that, but these are marching orders coming down.”

It’s been reported that the format the show will take is a lot more reminiscent of the Original Series: a modern-day Lone Ranger concept, with Mike and K.I.T.T. driving across the country and helping the common man. The seeds of this were sown in last night’s episode, Day Turns Into Knight: “The dying wish of one of the characters is that they go back to what they had originally started with, before they got too involved with the government,” Thompson says. “Mike is told to go back to the idea that one man can make a difference; that he should go out and help people who need help and not take on the terrorist of the week. As a result, they’ve kind of gone rogue and will be operating outside of the law. So the government shuts them down and what they do from there is the show’s new direction.”

What does Thompson think of the new direction? “I think the drama’s good, especially in those episodes. We’re just starting on the ones after that — the reboot. Now it’s like, ‘what do we do?’ and they actually ask that question. They go forward from there and fulfil someone’s dying wish. It’ll work, touch wood.”

It’s SFX, issue 179, February 2009, out now!

NBC’s Official Knight Rider Website has posted highlights from last night’s episode, Day Turns Into Knight… where speeding it fun — but not like this! It’s only available to Knight Rider fans in the US, but if you can, check them out!

NBC.com: Day Turns Into Knight Highlights

There is also a clip of DOND model Anya from the previous week’s show, Don’t Stop the Knight:

NBC.com: DOND Model Anya on Knight Rider

Tonight we have Part Two of Knight Rider‘s big “reboot”!

“Mike and K.I.T.T. continue on their quest to stop a terrorist from detonating a nuclear weapon and killing the ambassador — Mike (Justin Bruening) and K.I.T.T. (voiced by Val Kilmer) are now transporting a bomb in the trunk of the car, but in order for it not to explode they must stay above 100 miles-per-hour. Trying to come up with a plan to disable the bomb, they load K.I.T.T. onto the plane to buy some time and keep up their speed. Clinging to life, Rivai (Sydney Tamiia Poitier) manages to give a clue to find where the terrorist is hiding. Meanwhile, Sarah (Deanna Russo) receives some upsetting news about her dad. Bruce Davison, Yancey Arias and Paul Campbell star. Smith Cho recurs and Rick Hoffman and Richard Roundtree guest star.”

Watch as Day Turns Into Knight at 8/7c on NBC!