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TVGuide spent a couple minutes with Bruce Davison, talking about his character Charles Gramin and Knight Rider. Watch as they talk at length without revealing anything at all!

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NBC have been hosting a press tour of all their different shows, and yesterday was the Knight Rider panel. Here below is a selection of interesting sound information leaned as well as images from the event.

Ben Silverman and Marc Graboff quoted on Knight Rider today:

Ben on the cozy relationship between "Knight Rider" and the car company that sponsors the show.

Graboff: "If there's too much product integration, we don't even like to call it product integration...we're trying to integrate it more organically with the show, in a way that is organic to the show, something that advertisers are comfortable with and the show runners, more importantly, are comfortable with. And which the viewers are ultimately comfortable with."

Did they go too far with 'Knight Rider'?

Ben: "Well, it's about a car, ultimately. . . that was the star of the show."

From BuddyTV:

The Knight Rider series will be quite different and more evolved than the two-hour TV movie. The differences begin first with showrunner Gary Scott Thompson (who previously created Las Vegas and The Fast and the Furious), who was given carte blanche to fabricate his own world. Though the basic characters from the movie will remain, certain character backstories will change. Mostly, the lesbian subplot with Sydney Tamiia Poitier's character introduced in the movie will possibly be altered.

There are also new characters who will help to maintain the car by working in what Thompson calls the KITT Cave. Thompson added that he has a long-term mythology plan for the series through at least two seasons which is based on the origins of KITT. He posed one question that he promises to answer throughout the series: "Why would you put artificial intelligence into a car?" Finally, despite rumors on the Internet, there are no plans for Thompson to bring characters from Las Vegas onto Knight Rider.

From EW:

Knight Rider Panel
The Players: Justin Bruening, Yancy Arias, Bruce Davison, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Paul Campbell, Deanna Russo, Smith Cho and exec producers Doug Liman, Dave Bartis and Gary Scott Thompson

3:09 pm: Thompson doesn't rule out a cameo by The Hoff later in the season.

3:11 pm: Echoing the opinion of 98 percent of the critics in this room, Thompson felt the two-hour movie was lacking several things. Among them: "a turbo-boost." Interesting. I would've said "a decent script."

3:17 pm: Regarding reports (OK, one report) that Las Vegas' Danny and Delinda might make a cameo on KR, onetime Vegas EP Thompson confirms that the idea was broached in the writers' room, but, ultimately, he decided "it would be unfair to the fans of both shows to do that."

3:30 pm: It was just a phase! It's undecided whether Poitier's character will remain bisexual in the series. KITT, on the other hand, will continue to swing both ways.

We have word of the complete lineup of panelists for the Knight Rider event being held on Thursday, July 24th at Comic Con.

Previously we had been able to confirm Gary Scott Thompson as a panelist. We now have 5 more names that complete the list.

Scheduled to appear are:

• Gary Scott Thomspon (Showrunner/ExecProducer)
• Justin Bruening (Mike Traceur)
• Deanna Russo (Sarah Graiman)
  
• Sydney Tamiia Poitier (Carrie Rivai)
• Bruce Davidson (Charles Graiman)
• David Bartis (ExecProducer)

As with anything, this schedule can change. But if it does, you will find out here.

The Knight Rider panel is scheduled to take place on Thursday July 24th. Final panel arrangements are still being made, but Gary Scott Thompson is confirmed. Also what is confirmed? The big unveiling of footage from the series plus the new Attack-KITT, live and in person!

The theater holds 1000 people, so it shouldn't be too hard to get a seat, but I hear they don't clear the room from panel to panel. This will also be a moderated panel - where a moderator asks pre-submitted questions to the panel (vs the ask the question in the audience type thing), so we'll have more information on how to get your question asked as we get closer to the date.

Tickets are available from http://www.comic-con.org - and it looks like 80% sold out for Thursday, so place your orders now!

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Paul Campbell is set to join the ensemble cast of Knight Rider.

On "Knight Rider," a sequel to the 1980s NBC series, Campbell ("Battlestar Galactica") will play the head research tech at Knight Industries. He is repped by WMA and ROAR.

Thanks to Joe Huth for the catch

With Knight Rider airing this Sunday, NBC was kind enough to send us 5 clips for you to check out. Each clip is approximately :40 seconds in length and are direct clips from the Knight Rider movie.

Bad guys find KITT - [00:57]

KITT saves Sarah from the Bad guys. - [00:39]

We are back with part 2 of our exclusive interview with Deanna Russo - who plays Sarah Graiman, daughter of Charles Graiman - creator of the Knight Industries Three Thousand and childhood friend of Mike Traceur.

Continue to read our exclusive interview with her. Also be sure to check out our previous interviews with David Bartis, Sydney Tamiia Poitier and Kevin Dunigan.