12 Hilariously Bad Attempts To Reboot Classic TV Shows

10. Knight Rider

Knight Rider has been an icon since the 1980s when the original David Hasselhoff fronted series was first shown. The millennial version of the series didn't want to be called a reboot, remake or a re-imagining. Instead, this was a modernisation that linked to the original series as a loose continuation. The 2008 series starred Justin Bruening as the son of Hasselhoff's Michael Knight; Mike Traceur and, for some inexplicable reason, Val Kilmer who was chosen to voice the new, modern KITT. If that alone wasn't reason enough to dislike it, the car's new design ignored everything cool about the original and just added a black coat of paint to a Ford Mustang. The new features of KITT included an Attack Mode and the ability to literally transform into a range of Ford vehicles to suit almost any terrain or circumstance; sports car, pickup. Just name it and, if it was in the Ford range, KITT could become it. Not happy with turning this iconic car into a Transformer, the new KITT was also equipped with so many gadgets that even James Bond would have called it overkill. In December 2008 NBC reduced their order from 22 episodes to 17 and two months after airing the finale announced that there would not be a second series. Currently it holds a Metacritic score of 21.