David Hasselhoff Returning To Knight Rider

David Hasselhoff – who starred in the original Knight Rider TV series – is making final arrangements for an appearance on the new show – maybe with a surprising car, reports SciFi Wire. Executive producer Gary Scott Thompson confirmed that they are considering inviting Hasselhoff onto the new series. “He may make an appearance later this season,” Thompson said in an interview on the show’s set in Santa Clarita, Calif. “He is talking to NBC next week, and we are working out everyone’s schedule . . . I don’t want to put him in just for the sake of having him drop by; I want there to be a good reason for him being there and have it be part of the story. I talked to David about a way of doing that, and so far he likes it. It’s a cool idea.”

Thompson added that he has a dream scenario: Teaming Hasselhoff’s Michael Knight with Justin Bruening’s Mike Tracer, with both K.I.T.T.s: The original Pontiac Trans Am, originally voiced by William Daniels, and the Ford Mustang GT500KR, voiced by Val Kilmer. “I don’t know if it will happen,” Thompson said. “It’s all about timing.”

Knight Rider picks up the story from the pilot movie and centers on a high-tech crime-fighting team that operates the intelligent car, called K.I.T.T. Justin Bruening is reprising his role as Knight’s son, Mike Tracer. Thompson, who wasn’t involved in the TV movie, said he is planning to make the weekly show even more action-packed and fast-paced. The cast includes Deanna Russo, Bruce Davison, Yancey Arias, Paul Campbell, Sydney Tamiia Poitier and Smith Cho. It is currently filming the seventh of 13 episodes that are already written, Thompson said.