In case anyone's interested

[knightendo_phil]

have to ask this: why is this being referred to as a "backdoor" pilot? that term is usually reserved for an episode or movie of an already-running show that is acting as a sneaky pilot for a new show. in the knight rider universe, look back at season two's "mouth of the snake", which acted as a backdoor pilot for a potential new series called Code Of Vengeance.

NBC has been very clear that this IS a pilot movie. Indeed, they've made much hoopla that this KR pilot is the first of a new breed, a new way of approaching the pilot marketplace.

[Victor Kros]

It's called a "backdoor pilot" because technically it is a made for tv movie, but instead of being just a stand alone made for tv movie of the week it also has the possibility of being the pilot for a potential new Knight Rider tv series if it's picked up.

They have to use the term "backdoor" because it's not a guarantee they will make a series based off it.

Hope that clears things up,

=VK=

[PHOENIXZERO]

Either that or you feel like you've just taken it in the backdoor after seeing it. Also known as the "Knight Rider 2000/KR2010/TKR effect". Hopefully it doesn't happen this time around.


I'm expecting a Knight Rider marathon on Sci-Fi the weekend before the premiere. Though if the TV movie does indeed suck, that might just backfire in making it look worse.

[Nelson B]

From what I have seen so far I don't think its going to suck. But you never know. I have gone and seen movies at the theatre that had great trailers. But boy did they suck. One month to go will we survive?

[Duster]

SciFi has another cool article online, focusing on Justin and his knee injury.
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.ph ... 1&id=47431

Bruening acknowledged that it'll be a while until he can perform stunts. "There's a lot of cool stunts in here that they wouldn't let do," he said. "But that will change [laughs]. I get to go to driving school, apparently, if this gets picked up [to series].

"I think we have to wait for the writers' strike to work itself out, and obviously we can't write any scripts until they get what they want, and I hope they do," Bruening said. "But it's a little premature to find out. ... If it does well enough, the movie, I'm sure they'll probably green-light it."

[PHOENIXZERO]

That's cool, hopefully if it does get picked up he doesn't have regular knee problems. For his and productions sake.

[knightendo_phil]

But no pilot is guaranteed success. A backdoor pilot has always been described as how i put it in my previous post. To continue to refer to this that way degrades it, they ARE promoting this as a pilot and if successful a brand new series.