Feeling blue that you missed last Sunday night?s premiere of the new Knight Rider TV movie? Well you?re in luck--NBC will broadcast the ratings blockbuster tomorrow (Saturday) night at 9 pm EST. With the a series already greenlit, now?s your chance to get in on the what?s sure to be one of the most talked about shows of the fall season.

We caught up with Knight Rider executive producer, Doug Liman, who also happens to be the director of last weekend?s number one film Jumper (having a pretty good week there, aren?t you, Doug?), and asked him what prompted his involvement in the reborn Knight Rider saga?

?Well,? he said, ?I have an overall television deal with NBC/Universal, and together we sort of searched through the library. The moment Knight Rider was suggested to me?it was a show that I loved growing up. So it wasn?t a far stretch, considering what you can do with visual effects today that you couldn?t do then. It seemed like the kind of show you could just do better."

Does Liman find it odd that he began his career as the director of the hit indie comedy Swingers, and has since become known for sci-fi/action epics like The Bourne Identity, Jumper, and now Knight Rider?

?I still like comedy,? he says, ?There?s comedy in Jumper. But I?ve not done a comedy since Swingers. I?m not sure why. But when I did Swingers what I really wanted to do was James Bond. That was my fantasy growing up?to direct a James Bond film. And Swingers was like, ?I?ll do this little comedy and then eventually get to do a big dumb action movie.? It wasn?t well thought out, but that was the plan. A funny thing happened along the way, which is that part of that plan worked?Swingers turned out to be a great resume film. And it did open doors for me, and I was able to go get the rights to Robert Ludlum?s novel and put together a big action film. But the funny thing that happened on the way is, when I actually went to go do that big dumb action film, I realized, a little to my horror, that I was more interested in character than I was in action. The one thing I brought to the action film was somebody who?s first priority wasn?t action. And when you have a filmmaker doing an action movie whose first priority isn?t action, it winds up changing the genre.?