knight rider online

Can only be good,why waste money on a website when the show has only 4 episodes left!!??

Tony P Knight Driver wrote:The NBC Official Knight Rider site is updated with a new online KR Racing game and a link to FLAG.

DeeKnight wrote:Can only be good,why waste money on a website when the show has only 4 episodes left!!??

Mr.Marcus wrote:Its strategy. They didn't do anything except add a few new touches, hardly cost intensive. But it does something more important. It adds hope. Hope is what prevents a letter writing campaign b/c the fans hope it'll be renewed. That's why I expect NBC to continue keeping quiet about KR's status I'd pay more attention to the things that count. No superbowl ads, no general ads, cut budget, trimmed cast, reduced episode order, etc. These aren't the things a network does to a show they have faith in.

Ok first and foremost everone should have hope,anyone who says different is selling something.

Every should keep sending letters, get your friends to send letters, get strangers to send letters. Make 1000 copies go to work get everyone there to sign letters and send them as a group. Sign the online petition.
If the website update is a "stratigic move" to give us false hope, which IMO is way over thinking this, it makes no sense. If NBC did nothing to the website at all and we send letters, they can simply ignore them and do what they want regardless of what we ask. They produce the show, they hold all the cards, they can choose to acknowledge us or choose to ignore us. Corporate business operate like that everyday.

Unfortunatley the harsh reality is no matter what we do. petitions, protests,letters, press releases..may have absoultly no impact what so ever,the final decision is not up to us, it is up to NBC execs, and whether the believe KR is a viable product.

As for things that count. We and NBC were sold a particular product:KR Telemovie, a continuation of the original series. Thta is not what was being produced and the poor ratings reflected that. NBC stepped in and made GST fix the series. By fixing the series, characters that we confusing, unexpected and perhaps didnt belong in the storyline were removed. Those are things a network does to save a show from cancellation. When is the last time you heard of a TV series recast,retooled and relauched mid season? I never have and I have been watching TV for over 4 decades.

Budget cuts are happening everywhere-hello recession.

No superbowl or TV ads. At an adverage cost of air a 30 second comercial during the superbowl is between 2.7 and 3 million dollars. Not including the cost of actually producing the commercial. I wouldn't promote a show that has finished filming for the season either, those funds can be utilized elsewhere or applied to the next years budget for the show. Thats simply good business.

Now is it a fact the KR's future is iffy? yes.
I do not expect NBC to commit to a second season or cancellation until they have all the facts and figures in for this season, and the "new" shows they are planning. Even the cast and crew don't expect to hear anything before April.

But if you think NBC execs actually spent the time and energy to think up a way to consipre against our letter writing campaign by updating a website to give us false hope. Well, put bluntly, we are just not that important to them in the grand scheme of things. They are more worried about losing thier respective paychecks, possible layoffs, budget cuts and the worst recession this country has seen in a long time.how many of thier sponsors have they lost as a network becuase the sponsor was forced to go out of business or file for bankruptcy?

Dont be a Debbie downer man, look at this website update as a good thing.

Please allow me to offer this little peice of advice. In the future: If you hear hoof beats, look for horses, not zebras.