Bruening to star as TV's new Knight Rider

Well, who better to play the son of TV's Michael Knight than an actor who spent the last five years playing the son of actor Michael Knight?

AMC's Justin Bruening, who left the ABC sudser in August, has been cast as the offspring of David Hasselhoff in NBC's reprisal of the 1980s series, "Knight Rider." (Himself a former soap hunk when the series first launched, Hasselhoff of course went on to a very successful career on "Baywatch," "America's Got Talent," and singing his megahits for crazy German people.)

Bruening, who was Soaphunks.net's first Adonis winner in 2004, will begin having conversations with his car in a TV movie, which may turn into a series if the ratings are good.