Hoff's Knight Rider Return

David Hasselhoff is in talks to appear on NBC's Knight Rider, reprising his role as Michael Knight from the original series.

Also cast in the movie/pilot is US soap star Deanna Russo – he’s on a show called  The Young & the Restless - who will play the female lead opposite fellow soap star Justin Bruening.

Rider – as it will be known - is a sequel to the 1980s series that centres on Mike Tracer (Bruening), Michael Knight's son who never knew his dad.

Burned by his love for childhood best friend and one-time girlfriend Sarah Kamen (Russo), Mike is wasting away in Las Vegas when Sarah reappears and is willing to pay off Mike's gambling debt in exchange for help.

Sarah is the brilliant estranged daughter of KITT inventor Charles Kamen, who works as an assistant professor in the engineering department at Stanford.

When she receives word from talking-car KITT (Knight Industries Three Thousand) that her father is missing, she and KITT set out to find and recruit Mike.