I’ve tried hard to like the new Knight Rider. The pilot was average but I could see things heading somewhere. The retooled series made no sense: the extra cast members, the claustrophobic HQ (a tribute to the security room in Las Vegas?) and lamer-than-lame plots meant that the only reason men of a certain age were watching was Deanna Russo. It’s a shame: Bruening is a better actor than Hasselhoff was at that age, and even ripping off old scripts would have resulted in something better than what we got.