World Series Beats Out ‘Knight Rider,’ ‘Pushing Daisies’
KITT or baseball. Baseball or KITT. Looks like fans preferred to see the Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 1 of the World Series rather than seeing yet another wacky adventure of Michael Knight and his talking car. “Knight Rider,” fresh off of receiving a full-season pickup by NBC, earned a 4.4 rating/7 share, according to Fast National ratings from Nielsen Media Research. That’s down more than 10 percent from its pre-Presidential debate spike last week, and is floating around the average rating of a 4.5/7 after five episodes. It was easily beat by not only the World Series on Fox, but also the comedy block on CBS. “Knight Rider” did beat “Pushing Daisies,” Zap2it reports, which earned an estimated 4.0/6, down 4.8 percent from the previous week. “Pushing Daisies,” …
