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O. J. Simpson is
serving time for various crimes in Nevada ,
but Fox TV thinks the public is still interested in his trial for murder in the
slaying of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. So they
are going to present this, a ‘tentpole event series’ on the murder and
trial.
What is a ‘tentpole
event series’? We have no idea,
never heard the term before, have no concept of what it means, and given that
it is associated with Fox we have no doubt that it is pretty meaningless. But here is what Fox TV promises.
“The Run of His Life” will “take viewers behind the scenes of
‘The Trial of the Century,’ driven by the nonstop plot of a courtroom thriller
and presenting the story of the trial as it has never been told,” Fox promised.
SPOILER ALERT!!!
While we don’t want to ruin the suspense, here’s what
happens. O. J. SIMPSON IS FOUND NOT
GUILTY.
Sorry, could not help ourselves.
Of course, this is
not the first time Fox TV has tried to capitalize on the O. J. Simpson case.
Fox
last tried to get into bed with Simpson’s sordid story in 2006, announcing in
November of that year The Practically Perfect November Sweeps Stunt: a two-hour
interview in which Simpson himself would detail how he would have murdered
his wife, Nicole, and her friend Ron Goldman more than 10 years earlier.
But what happened
then?
Sadly,
a few days later, News Corp. canceled the book and the TV interview, succumbing
to the outrage, after a dozen Fox-affiliated TV stations said they would not
air the interview.
“I and senior management agree with the
American public that this was an ill-considered project,” News Corp. Chairman
Rupert Murdoch said at that time, adding: “We are sorry for any pain that this
has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.”
That’s right, the show was so egregiously offensive that it
even shamed Rupert Murdoch. But
apparently that shame was not permanent, so here we are again.
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