Posted on 11/14/2006 8:48:46 PM PST by sonsofliberty2000
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Fox said Tuesday it will air a two-part interview with O.J. Simpson at month's end in which he describes the 1994 murders of his ex-wife and her friend that he says he didn't commit.
The interview will be conducted by editor and book publisher Judith Regan. On November 30, her Regan Books is publishing a book Simpson wrote with the working title "If I Did It, Here's How It Happened."
Fox said Simpson's book "hypothetically describes" how he would have committed the murders. The special will air at 9 p.m. November 27 and 29 on Fox.
Fox executives declined comment about the show Tuesday. In a statement released Tuesday, executive vice-president/alternative programming Mike Darnell said: "This is an interview that no one thought would ever happen. It's the definitive last chapter in the trial of the century."
Fox is a subsidiary of News Corp., which also owns Regan Books.
A spokeswoman for Regan Books didn't return a phone call or an e-mail seeking comment Tuesday.
Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman; he can't be tried again for those crimes. In 1997, a civil court found him responsible for the slayings and ordered him to pay $33.5 million to the victims' families.
OMG...I have been unhappy with Fox News Channel...this just may put me over the edge.
Must be low on cash..... and brains.
Judith Regan and Fox News ought to be ashamed of themselves.
It'll be on FOX TV as opposed to FOX News Channel. I guess this is their ratings grabber.
Who bought him a mirror?
I was in Las Vegas last week and saw a man (with what I assume was his young family) wearing an authentic Buffalo Bills' O.J. Simpson shirt. First one I have seen in years. O.J. has his followers.
I AM shocked, actually, that Geraldo isn't doing the interview...my goodness OJ and his trial have probably paid for at least 2 of his divorces...
not nice, sleuth...lol
Does this mean that the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson will get the 'hypothetical' book profits?
Such poor taste...
Oh...and I never watch the Fox network channel...except "24"...and I may have to quit that, now.
OOPS..I did watch American Idol last year...well, that one I can NOT watch, easily.....LOL
Guess he's going to hypothetically brag about how smart he was and how he got away with it.
Don't the police often get information about a crime from other prisoners who have shared a jail cell with a criminal who has boasted about what he/she did?
Oh FGS
I like 24 and house, and I too succumbed to the demon American Idol last year...
there is something really, really weird about this. besides shamelessly capitalizing on a grizzly crime.
Shoot...he can come right out and admit that he did it...double jeopardy....he would stay a free man.
Well...nuts, decisions, decisions.
Only thing I watch on FOX is FOX NFL Sunday. :) Watching my Cowboys get taken to the woodshed against rivals and take the cellar dwellers to the whipping post. LOL
I was surprised Jerry didn't get this gig. He owes OJ big time for jump starting his lackluster career, even though he thinks OJ is a creep. LOL
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