Published on Saturday, 2, May, 2009 at 0:00 in Malta News | No Comments

New Knight Rider premiere free to all Melita subscribers

Knight RiderMelita have announced that their viewers can enjoy free, the premiere of Knight Rider, the new series that brings the iconic 80s series back to our screens. The pilot will premiere with a 2-hour show on Monday the 4th of May at 9.15pm on the Weather & Information Channel, which is accessible for free to all Melita subscribers, concurrently with its launch on Melita More.

Knight Rider is based on the 80s hit TV series starring David Hasselhoff. The series is also well known by the name of ‘Super Car’ as it was originally dubbed on Italian channels.

“Melita is all about providing entertainment for everyone, and our main priorities are to offer more content and more value for money to our customers. The launch of the new Knight Rider series was one of the most eagerly anticipated TV events of the season and Melita is proud to announce that the hit series gets in gear on Monday 4th May,” said Mr Ivor Micallef, Melita’s Content Executive, said.

The two-hour premiere event stars Justin Bruening, Deanna Russo, Sydney Tamiia Poitier and Bruce Davison. In addition, David Hasselhoff – who starred in the popular lead role as Michael Knight for four seasons during the original series’ run which also airs daily on Melita More – returns as the same character during a special guest-star appearance.

Sarah Graimen (Russo) is a 24-year old Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, following in her genius father Charles’ (Davison) footsteps. But when men attempt to abduct her, Sarah receives a mysterious call from KITT warning her that he’s a creation of Charles’, who also invented the first KITT 25 years ago — and that her father is in serious danger.

Sarah and KITT track down her best friend from childhood, Mike Tracer (Bruening), a 23-year-old ex-Army Ranger, whom Sarah hasn’t seen since he left home at 18. Having served in Iraq, Mike is now jaded and lost and initially resistant. Eventually he agrees to help Sarah and the two set out to find Charles and to discover who’s behind the attempt to procure KITT. Along the way, Carrie Rivai (Poitier), an agile yet tough FBI agent who has a long-standing friendship with Charles and Sarah, is brought into the mix to help in the search.

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