Knight Rider

While I haven't seen it, I was amused to notice that there was a modernised Knight Rider tele-movie broadcast in the US back in February.

Glen A Larson helped write it, and David Hasselhoff had a guest appearance. However, the most interesting casting decision was Arrested Development star Will Arnett (Gob) as KITT's voice. I think Arnett would make a terrific voice actor, but it was not to be due to his previous voice overs in General Motors ads (the new incarnation of KITT is a Ford Mustang, so GM were not shy in pointing out the conflict of interest). The production staff were forced to swap in Val Kilmer's skillz at the last minute (two weeks before the movie was wrapped) to record over Arnett's dialogue.

Mind you, every time KITT would have kicked off saying "Michael.." I would have been thinking about Arrested Development (Gob's brother's name, and central character to the show).