Monday - November 20, 2006

FOX Kills O.J.

OK, the show I was not going to watch in a million years has been canceled. I wonder if FOX left a bloody glove at the scene. I can hear Johnny Cochran now saying, “If The show is shit, you must remit!” Case closed. Let’s all go have a beer with Judge Ito, Kato Kaelin and Mark Furman ...

News Corp. Cancels O.J. Simpson Book and TV Special
_{NEW YORK (FOX NEWS) - Monday, November 20, 2006}

News Corp., the parent company of book publisher HarperCollins and the FOX network, has canceled publication of the O.J. Simpson book and television special “If I Did It.”

“I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project,” said Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman. “We are sorry for any pain that this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.”

A dozen FOX affiliates had already said they would not air the two-part sweeps month special, planned for next week before the book’s publication. In the book, the one-time football superstar tells how he would have killed his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman if, in fact, he had done it.

Relatives of the victims have lashed out at the now scuttled publication and broadcast plans. “He destroyed my son and took from my family Ron’s future and life. And for that I’ll hate him always and find him despicable,” Fred Goldman told ABC last week.

The industry trade publication Broadcasting & Cable editorialized against the show Monday, saying “FOX should cancel this evil sweeps stunt.” One of the nation’s largest superstore chains, Borders Group Inc., said last week it would donate any profits on the book to charity.

Last week, Judith Regan, would-be publisher of Simpson’s book, said she did not pay Simpson for the rights to publish his book. “What I do know is I didn’t pay him,” Regan said in an eight-page statement titled “Why I Did It.” “I contracted through a third party who owns the rights, and I was told the money would go to his children. That much I could live with.”

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Posted by The Skipper     on 11/20/2006 at 04:19 PM   
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