NBC’s Official Knight Rider Website has updated with video highlights from last night’s episode, Knight Fever. In this one, “Mike puts the ‘man’ in ‘manual.'” It’s only available Stateside, but if you can, check it out!

NBC.com: Knight Fever Highlights

Be there for tonight’s new Knight Rider episode, Knight Fever, on NBC!

“K.I.T.T. may have met his match when he falls victim to a destructive computer virus -– Mike (Justin Bruening) must stop the spread of a computer virus that threatens a total global meltdown. The job gets much harder when K.I.T.T. (voiced by Val Kilmer) is infected. Meanwhile, Mike’s jealousy begins to show when Sarah (Deanna Russo) reconnects with an old flame (guest star Jeffrey Pierce, The Nine), who may be the key to solving the latest mission. Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Paul Campbell, Yancey Arias and Bruce Davison star. Smith Cho recurs.”

Don’t miss it!

The lucky folks over at Knight Rider Online have been invited back onto the set of the currently-filming season finale, Exit Light, Enter Knight, and had an opportunity to speak to the cast and crew about what we can expect from the remaining episodes after the reboot, and NBC’s worrying decision to bring production to an early finish.

“The show is not cancelled,” Gary Scott Thompson tells them. “We’re doing a reboot, and a lot of people don’t know this but NBC cut a lot of costs by cutting episodes on a lot of shows, but also laid off 750 people in their production offices and their other offices, so this is a cost cutting measure, not a cancellation measure.” Thompson encourages fans of the show to write in to the network to show their support for Knight Rider.

“We’re making [the show] more like the original one,” Justin Bruening says of the reboot. “The natural progression of the story is that it just becomes more like the original. It’s K.I.T.T. and I, and we’re on the road and I’m the only person K.I.T.T. really needs. I drive around, I find a mission, I solve it. It’s smaller crimes, you know, I’m not trying to save the world each week.”

Writers Rachel Mellon and Teresa Huang agree. “It’s very exciting,” Rachel explains. “It’s more like the original where it’s a guy in a car saving the world, or saving the little guy, depending on the week and the writer.” Teresa Huang adds, “I think it’s really going to bring a lot to the show because it’s simplifying all the elements. We thought very big at the beginning of the show, and I think we saw that it’s really the smaller stories, the saving the guy of the week, saving the everyman that’s exciting to us.”

One episode that fans are anxiously waiting for is the twelfth installment, Knight to King’s Pawn, which features the return of K.A.R.R. Justin can’t hide his excitement over it: “He’s a scary mofo, let me tell you,” Justin says. “It’s epic, it’s huge. It’s bigger than [the season finale]. I can’t say anything because it might give it away… I’m just gonna tell you it’s K.I.T.T. Vs. K.A.R.R. That’s it. And that’s not even the big part of it.” He describes the showdown as being “like 20 rounds with Tyson, it’s awesome. Take the original K.I.T.T. Vs. K.A.R.R. and multiply that by a thousand, it’s nuts. And I’m stuck in the middle of it.”

The finale looks to be filled with action: a beat-up Justin says that he is involved in several fight sequences and rides a motorcycle, while around 4000 rounds of ammunition were expended in an exterior scene involving K.I.T.T.!

Knight Rider Online: GST Says KR NOT Cancelled

Knight Rider Online: Knight Writers On Set Interview

Knight Rider Online: Justin Bruening On The Set

The cast and crew of Knight Rider were informed yesterday that the show’s 17th episode, Exit Light, Enter Knight, will be its last for the season, bringing the show to an early finale on 25th February.

THRfeed.com reports: “The network has recently said it plans to overhaul the show to function as more of a crime-of-the-week procedural. The format changes are still going to air in the coming weeks, but the cutback suggests there is little expectation that a revamp will reverse the action-drama’s ratings decline.

“This episode reduction likely spells the beginning of the end of the show, since Rider ratings have been abysmal. Unless there’s marked improvement between now and the finale, it’s tough to see NBC paying to bring back Rider next fall. Still, as with Lipstick Jungle — which the network has not ordered new episodes for, but has also not pulled from its lineup — NBC sources say they do not consider the show canceled.

“NBC picked up Rider for a full season in late October, relatively early in the show’s run. Though modestly rated, the numbers had seemed to level off. After the pickup, Rider declined — and kept declining — with the most recent episode watched by 5.2 million viewers and earning a 1.5 rating among adults 18-49.”

The show returns to the air later this month, so get behind it!

THR.com Live Feed: Knight Rider to Halt Production Early

Knight Fever, the second episode of the series to be filmed and the next to air, is being held back until New Year’s Eve, December 31st. In that show, Mike must stop the spread of a computer virus that threatens a total global meltdown. The job gets much harder when K.I.T.T. is infected. Meanwhile, Mike’s jealousy begins to show when Sarah reconnects with an old flame who may be the key to solving the latest mission.

Shapeshifter, a Knight Rider insider, tells Knight Rider Online, “The show IS going to change quite a bit after [Knight Fever]… Eps 10 and 11 will be the transitional episodes, and a lot is going to happen. It won’t just be dropping some characters — the whole mission, and organization behind the mission, is going to change, and the K.I.T.T. cave, when used at all, will be utilized in a different way. Their whole world is going to be rocked.”