'Knight Rider' set for television comeback

Cult 1980s show Knight Rider will return to the small screen with a two-hour pilot for NBC, according to reports.

Variety states that Swingers and The Bourne Identity director Doug Liman has been approached by NBC to produce a new resurrection of the drama, which previously starred David Hasselhoff as former cop Michael Knight alongside an artificially intelligent talking car called K.I.T.T.

The move to bring back the much-loved series, which originally ran between 1982 and 1986, is said to have been inspired by the big screen success of the Transformers movie this summer. It is believed that similar special effects, albeit on a smaller scale, will be used to render shapeshifting cars in the pilot.

It is currently unknown whether Hasselhoff has been approached to reprise his role as the lone crusader for justice.