Knight Rider

• Are these the best nude TV scenes of 2008? — Popwatch
• Knight Rider: going into the garage permanently? — Watch With Kristin
• Check out Daniel Radcliffe dishing on the final Harry Potter flicks. — The Lyons Den
• Seven TV sketch comedies that deserved more chances than Mad TV got. — TV Squad
• These are a few of Beck's fav-o-rite things. — Spinner
• Here's the full list of the competition lineup for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival! — Cinematical
• From Gossip Girl's addiction to cell phones and blogging, to The Office's use of the world's tiniest Bluetooth: What's your favorite TV show for tech stuff this year? — geeksugar
• A seven-word review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. — FilmExperience

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• We have a definite premiere date for the fifth season of Lost! The craziness begins again on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009. — Variety
• Chris Rock is set to star and co-write a re-imagining of the 2007 British comedy Death at a Funeral. — Variety
• Fox has ordered a full season of The Cleveland Show to premiere in Fall 2009. — Zap2it
• Coldplay has been named the world's biggest band of 2008. — Reuters
• Casey Affleck and Jessica Alba are joining the cast of The Killer Inside Me, an adaptation of a novel from noir author Jim Thompson. — The Hollywood Reporter
• Quantum of Solace has reached a box office take of $160.3 million internationally in its first 10 days. — ComingSoon
• Bret Ratner is in final negotiations to direct a 21st century update of Conan the Barbarian. — Reuters
• Knight Rider is getting a major makeover. — The Hollywood Reporter
• Influential DJ and Morning Becomes Eclectic host Nic Harcourt is stepping down from KCRW. — LA Times

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• Sen. John McCain will again visit the Late Show With David Letterman this Thursday, Oct. 16. — Zap2It
• DreamWorks has signed a seven-year distribution pact with Universal Pictures. — Variety
• Pink Panther & Pals, a new 26-episode half-hour animated series will air on Cartoon Network channels worldwide starting in Fall 2009. — The Hollywood Reporter
• Ridley Scott plans on making a film adaptation of Joe Haldeman's 1974 sci-fi novel The Forever War. — ComingSoon
• For a seventh time, Oasis debuted an album at the top of the UK album chart. — Billboard
• French actor Guillaume Depardieu, son of Gerard Depardieu, has died of pneumonia at the age of 37. — The Hollywood Reporter
• NBC has ordered four more scripts for Knight Rider. Oy. — Zap2It

• Is now the right time for Oliver Stone's movie W.? — Popwatch
• Speaking of W., here's a list of 10 hilarious political impressions. — Vulture
• Ridley Scott has confirmed that his next project will be a film adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. — Cinematical
• In these tough economic times, can you stomach watching the fabulously wealthy on TV? — TV Filter
• Guillermo del Toro isn't too keen on the idea of Peter Jackson helping him film The Hobbit. — MTV Movies Blog
• Siiiiiiigh: More people are watching Knight Rider than Pushing Daisies. — Tuned In
• Girl crush of the day: Japanese all-girl rockabilly band The 5678's. — GiggleSugar
• An interview with John Francis Daley, who will always be Sam Wier to me. — The TV Addict

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If you're wondering whether Lipstick Jungle or Knight Rider will earn a spot on your Fall TV viewing schedule, you won't have to wait till their TV premieres next week to find out. Both shows are premiering online today as part of an NBC plan to get shows into online viewers' hands early.

Lipstick and Knight Rider are just two of the shows NBC is premiering this way; Chuck, Life, and 30 Rock will also be up on NBC's website a week before their premiere dates. Hulu and Amazon Unbox are also getting early looks at some NBC shows.

I'm never sure whether an early online broadcast is a good move or just silly. On the one hand, it could help build buzz for shows if people who watch online like what they see. On the other, it has to cut into broadcast ratings, at least somewhat. Do you think you'll check out either show? To watch some scenes from the season premiere of Lipstick, just read more

Ooooh, ahhhhhh. Check out the Knight Rider building. (I think it's in Germany, with all of the Hoff's fans, besides me, of course.) I won't lie. I thought it was pretty cool. It made me wanna do a little dance.

Thanks, College Humor!

I wish I drove just so I could have this thing on my dashboard telling me where to go in KITT's voice. How awesome would it be to have David Hasselhoff's greatest hits on at the same time? Driving nirvana. I would probably get in accidents from the sheer joy of being knee-deep in all things Hoff.

• Martin Scorsese will focus on Bob Marley for his next music documentary, writes Variety.
• Yael Naim — the singer from the MacBook Air commercials — will have her album released in the U.S. in March, Billboard reports.
• ComingSoon has the news that Uma Thurman will play Nanny in the feature film version of Eloise in Paris.
• SalesGenie will be dropping the Chinese panda ad after viewers who saw it during the Super Bowl complained it was offensive, The New York Times reports.
• Woody Allen will cast Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood in his next project, according to Entertainment Weekly.
• Not surprisingly, Zap2it reports that kids these days are into Shrek and Miley Cyrus, at least according to the Kids Choice Awards nominations.
• Val Kilmer will replace Will Arnett as the voice of KITT in Knight Rider, Variety reports.
• Dominic Monaghan has been cast in a psychological thriller titled Pet, writes ComingSoon.
• Disney World is getting an American Idol-themed attraction, writes Hollywood Reporter.

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