[darkpuppet]

here's a review from SFGate.com...

Quote:While the network (CBS) will probably succeed there, too bad it doesn't have NBC's "Knight Rider" to stick into the 9 p.m. slot since it's likely to be the season's funniest sitcom.

Even though "Knight Rider" is allegedly a drama.

"Knight Rider," which also premieres today (going up against CBS' comedy block of "The New Adventures of Old Christine" and "Gary Unmarried"), is heinously bad. It's the kind of bad that sells cheese or gets entertainment presidents fired - one or the other, or both.

Of course, anyone who would watch "Knight Rider" anyway - given the show's history of low expectations and the NBC movie that reinvented it - probably knows what they're getting into and won't mind that it's spectacularly awful. For some people, taste is not a choice in life.

No doubt it's a waste of effort and space to get worked up about how asinine "Knight Rider" is. In fact, its mere existence could hint at a devious plot by NBC to see which critics across the country will take the bait and flail away at it like a pinata of stupidity. (For example, someone might say that "Knight Rider" makes "Baywatch" look like it was made by Paul Thomas Anderson.)

Though you'd be better served watching the CBS comedy block, there's no denying that "Knight Rider" offers up a rare opportunity for an extremely quick drinking game.

The only rule would be that if you see something jaw-dropping bad - the acting, the writing or the special effects - then you take a drink immediately. Minutes to complete black out: T-minus five.

Maybe four if you gulp.

Whatever you do, don't TiVo this thing or you'll be in rehab before midseason.

It's not difficult to understand what went through the air-filled minds of NBC executives on this one.

First, it's a slick car commercial for a brand not to be mentioned.

Second, as probably the dumbest show of the season (and, yes, that includes Fox's stupendously witless "Do Not Disturb"), "Knight Rider" fits perfectly as a lead-in to "Deal or No Deal," the dumbest reality series in America. It's a masterstroke of programming at the Peacock network.

Third, maybe stoned and bored guys will watch. Advertisers like to sell products to stoned and bored guys.

And lastly, more than just an overproduced cartoon, "Knight Rider" could be the kind of series that gets dissected in future years as a work of weird genius, because it manages to be dramatically absurd within moments of coming on your TV screen and never once hints that it's trying to be intentionally ludicrous.

How many series can do that? You've got 1960s-era "Batman" fights, a car that talks, guns that go off, CGI explosions and the lead actress strips down to her underwear before the first commercial break. They must be very proud over at NBC. And yet, just in case this series was not intended to be so hilariously unwatchable, no names of people involved have been used in this review.