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First Pics Of Battlestar Galactica's Cool Prequel Caprica
It's mostly TV spoilers today, thanks to a ton of scans from TV Guide. But today's spoilers do include some new set pics from the Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica, which reveal what it would be like to live on Caprica some 50-70 years before the Cylon apocalypse. And there's one more new Dark Knight trailer with some new splodey footage. There are new Heroes promos and some hints about Lost, plus tons of spoilers for Sarah Connor Chronicles, Stargate, Smallville, Kyle XY, Knight Rider and Fringe. Spoilers rule! More »
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Watch The Dark Knight's Batman-Joker Confrontation!
Four new TV spots for the Batman movie The Dark Knight give a much clearer glimpse of the early confrontation between Batman and Heath Ledger's Joker than we've seen before. And a new Doctor Who clip reveals who ends up a prisoner of the Daleks this Saturday. We also scored some new pics of Shia LaBeouf's college days from Transformers 2 — and there are new rumors about what interrupts Shia's college career. New pics also shed some light on Wall-E and Jerry Bruckheimer's remake of British evil-science show Eleventh Hour. Plus Jon Favreau makes a prediction about the Avengers movie's lineup. And there are new hints for The Middleman, Chuck, and Knight Rider. Spoilers ahead. More »
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Meet The New Science Heroes
With the anti-science Bush Administration finally groaning to a halt, we may finally be willing to admire scientists. There are three new TV shows with scientist heroes coming this fall, creating a genre that hardly existed until now. We've always had lots of shows about doctors, lawyers and other highly paid professionals, but the science-hero show is a new phenomenon — and it may be more political than the existing genres. Minor spoilers ahead. More »
9:00 AM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
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Get Ready For Knight Rider's Full-Throttle Dementia
Here's your spoiler warning. The first details are starting to leak out about the Knight Rider TV show, which follows up last winter's TV movie, and it sounds just as demented as you could possibly expect. There's also another batch of Transformers 2 set reports and spoilers. And a ton of official info about the remaining few episodes of British time-travel soap Doctor Who. A casting call reveals a major new character joining the cast of The Middleman, and there are also new hints about Heroes and Lost. That was your spoiler warning. Read spoilers? (Y/N) More »
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Save KITT! Bid On Him At Ebay Now
An original KITT from Knight Rider has gone up for sale on Ebay today. Now is your chance to live a dream of owning the worlds first smart car so you can drive cross-country and fight crime for FLAG. Click through to see all angles of this glorious 80s car including high tech blinking and computer interiors that should fill your Knight Rider quota until the show's revival in September. Should you decide to purchase KITT, please be nicer to him than that attention-whore Hasselhoff, who always blamed KITT for showboating him. More »
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Knight Rider Series To Have More Special Effects, And Maybe A Dog Detective
Proving that, despite what a lot of you thought, NBC's series pick up of the new Knight Rider series is more than just a cheap April Fool's hoax — Like we would be that cruel, come on — former Las Vegas showrunner Gary Scott Thompson has been named as the new series' executive producer and showrunner. While he may not have the pedigree of, say, Battlestar Galactica's Ron Moore, one look at Thompson's resume should tell you exactly why he's perfect for this particular job. More »
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Knight Rider To Become Show, But Not Necessarily A Good Or Intelligent One
It's the news that I didn't mention for a day because I wanted to believe that it was all just an April Fools' hoax: NBC has picked up the recent reboot of Knight Rider as a regular series for its 2008-2009 season. The network, which will now be known as the "No, we didn't learn anything from Bionic Woman, thanks, why did you ask? Channel," hopes that the show will draw viewers in on Friday nights, but it's not banking on it, according to NBC co-chairman Marc Graboff. More »
Storytelling No Match For Flashy Effects And Marketing
Doug Liman proved that he's got a nanotech hide, even though the negative reviews of his two latest projects keep teleporting in. Both Jumper and Knight Rider were panned across the board, but the movie hauled in more than $30 million over the weekend, while the television show raked in huge ratings. More than 8 million people tuned in to watch the show, including the 18 to 49 bracket that advertisers drool for. So chances are high that we'll see both a Jumper sequel, and a Knight Rider series in the months ahead (a replacement for NBC's ailing Bionic Woman?). We just hope they'll stay closer to the source material in a Jumper sequel, and give Knight Rider a tuneup. Either way, we're sure both projects got a huge thumbs up from The Hoff.
Doug Liman proved that he's got a nanotech hide, even though the negative reviews of his two latest projects keep teleporting in. Both Jumper and Knight Rider were panned across the board, but the movie hauled in more than $30 million over the weekend, while the television show raked in huge ratings. More than 8 million people tuned in to watch the show, including the 18 to 49 bracket that advertisers drool for. So chances are high that we'll see both a Jumper sequel, and a Knight Rider series in the months ahead (a replacement for NBC's ailing Bionic Woman?). We just hope they'll stay closer to the source material in a Jumper sequel, and give Knight Rider a tuneup. Either way, we're sure both projects got a huge thumbs up from The Hoff.
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Knight Rider Smashes Our Childhood Memories Without Turbo Boost
NBC aired its Knight Rider TV movie last night. It was a two-hour long Ford commercial disguised as entertainment, padded with lesbians, threesomes, bad acting, questionable technology, and meta-commercials. Whether it was nostalgia beckoning viewers to watch, or leftover Transformers lust, this TV "event" about an artificially intelligent car was Sunday night's biggest draw. Was it worth it? Find out in our spoiler-laden recap inside. More »
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Which Will Suck Less: Jumper or Knight Rider?
This weekend pits the teleporting deadpannisms of Hayden Christensen in the movie Jumper vs. Val Kilmer's monotone as KITT in Sunday's Knight Rider TV movie. So which one will be less sucky? We've already weighed in with our Jumper review, and we've given you a look at some clips from Knight Rider. Will you be watching both, one or the other, or neither? Sound off in the poll below. More »
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Val Kilmer's KITT Has Mastered Growling And Deadpanning
Things we learned from these newly released Knight Rider clips: The car really does look cool, with high-tech displays that don't do much except look pretty. Mike Knight (nee Tracer) can flail around in a car on autopilot, yet still wear one of those douchebag bluetooth headsets. You can see some of the new KITT's fancy paraphernalia in the clip above, which features what can only be described as an A.I. growl at the end. Two more KITT videos after the jump. More »
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Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT
The two smartest cars in the universe get chained up and whipped, until they escape using their super lasers, in this scene from Power Rangers In Space. With Knight Rider zooming back onto our screens this weekend, everybody's acting as though KITT invented the super-smart car. But cars with a mind of their own have a long and awesome history in science fiction. Click through for our roundup of sentient cars that aren't called KITT or Bumblebee. More »
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TV This Week: The Return Of Jericho -- And KITT!
The most exciting thing on television this week is either a Mustang with the voice of Val Kilmer, or a small town in Kansas recovering from a nuclear holocaust. Whether you're more thrilled about the Knight Rider TV movie or the return of Jericho probably reveals something very deep about you, but we'll let you decide what. Other reasons to set your DVR or VCR this week include some crazy supernova action, and new Sarah Connor, Lost and Smallville episodes. Click through for listings, with tons of clips. More »
9:00 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
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Give Knight Rider A Test Drive With Our New Clip
Good morning and welcome to our obsessive roundup of everything spoilery in science fiction. There's a new promo clip for Knight Rider that shows way more of the show's action. And we ask an important question about Ricky Gervais' new movie. Also, there are some new tidbits about Smallville, and a look at the guy from 90210 as he'll look on Sarah Connor. More »
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Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!
This morning, we've got tons of forbidden secrets of Fringe, the X-Files clone from J.J. Abrams. And there are new pics from the Knight Rider TV movie, plus some images of a Speed Racer toy that gives some clues about the film. All that, plus new spoilers for Star Trek and Sarah Connor. It's all part of our plan to spoil you rotten first thing in the morning. More »
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First Look At David Hasselhoff In New Knight Rider
Welcome to Morning Spoilers, where we burn up the shock value from forthcoming plot twists to get a short-time high, instead of saving it like good kids. Today's spoilers are all TV-related, including a bunch of new pics from the Knight Rider TV movie that don't show a car. (Except a little bit in one photo, and it's not KITT.) There's also major new info about Heroes, Lost and Smallville, below the fold. More »
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