Knight Rider Online continue to roll out their exclusive content after they were granted access to the Santa Clarita set. The latest updates include interviews with Sydney Tamiia Poitier (Carrie Ruvai) and Yancey Arias (Alex Torres), and some close looks at the real-life details of the Satellite Surveillance Chamber (K.I.T.T.-Cave) set. Online have shared their videos; be sure to visit the site for more…

Knight Rider Online: Sydney Tamiia Poitier On-Set

Knight Rider Online: Yancey Arias On-Set

Knight Rider Online: Objects in the K.I.T.T.-Cave

The Internet was abuzz last weekend with the apparent theft of K.I.T.T. from its promotional tour in Canada, reported here. Some news sources reported that the incident was a publicity stunt, but there was no official word. Now some more details have come to light…

“To accelerate the steadily building buzz around the premiere of the Knight Rider series, last week E! Everything Entertainment brought the star of the show, the new and improved K.I.T.T., to a number of high profile events and heavy traffic locations in Toronto including the Virgin Music Festival, where fans were able to have their picture taken with the legendary car. Last Friday, the final day of K.I.T.T.’s celebrity tour, crowds of Knight Rider enthusiasts were left stunned when a man ran out of the crowd, dove into K.I.T.T. and screeched off. Intense speculation spread across news outlets and viral communities promoted by links to YouTube with audience cell phone footage of the ‘KITTnapping” action. And now E! is looking for help to find K.I.T.T.

“Toronto’s “KITTnapping” officially launched a unique viewer engagement promotion whereby fans have a chance to win a brand new Mustang GT Coupe or a number of limited edition Mio Knight Rider GPS units simply by identifying where K.I.T.T.’s been spotted.

“E! is also looking to the public to post their sightings of K.I.T.T. at eonline.com and watch E! for updated daily K.I.T.T. sightings. Viewers will be encouraged to enter their sightings once daily and during the Wednesday, September 24th premiere episode of Knight Rider, when one lucky fan will walk away with a brand new car!”

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As previously reported, Knight Rider fans in the States can watch the first episode of the new series (A Knight In Shining Armor) online at Hulu.com and the iTunes Store. The BBC reported yesterday that NBC Universal will also make the episode available at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB.com), and Amazon Unbox too.

The episode has its television premiere on NBC next Wednesday, September 24th at 8:00 pm.

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Knight Rider Archive: New Knight Rider to Premiere on Hulu!

The Knight Rider Online team have visited the Knight Rider set in Santa Clarita, and got to meet the cast, view some partial and completed footage, and generally take a good look around. In the first of a series of pieces that will undoubtedly lead up to the show’s premiere — Wednesday, 24th September on NBC — they speak to none other than Bruce Davison (Charles Graiman). He talks to them about his character, learning technobabble, and how the show has evolved from February’s 2-hour movie.

Knight Rider Online: Bruce Davison – On-Set Exclusive

Knight Rider Online: Actors in the K.I.T.T.-Cave – On-Set Exclusive

Pandemonium in Toronto yesterday when the K.I.T.T. doing the promotional rounds was “stolen” at an event outside of Union Station:

S. Breezy, a member of the local electro hip-hop group The Royal Society, was on the scene and took photos of the incident with his camera-phone, ultimately becoming the first to post images of it to the Internet.

“I just figured… why not? I guess it’d be cool to have a photo with K.I.T.T.,” he said. “This guy just dropped his coffee on the ground and jumped in and took off in the car. I wished I’d gotten shots of that moment… the girl beside me who took video was immediately approached by a guy from the Toronto Star, who told her that they wanted to buy the video!”

Breezy lingered around for about 20 minutes, taking in the scene, and waiting for K.I.T.T. to come back, but it never happened.

“The car delivery guy was screaming about insurance, and the woman who left the car unattended was bawling,” Breezy explains.

The Royal Society‘s female vocalist Nikki Awesome was asked how she would feel if 95% of the group’s fans ended up being Knight Rider geeks, and she seemed totally okay with the possibility. “The Knight Rider producers should totally approach us for licensing… the track Roborotic is like a dialogue between me and K.I.T.T. — he just doesn’t know it yet!” She laughed about the whole ordeal, and is totally taking in in stride and having fun with it.

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