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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Does He Want To Get Caught?

Honestly, have you ever seen anything like this?

Fox plans to broadcast an interview with O.J. Simpson in which the former football star discusses "how he would have committed" the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend, for which he was acquitted, the network said.

The two-part interview, titled "O.J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here's How It Happened," will air Nov. 27 and Nov. 29, the TV network said.

Simpson has agreed to an "unrestricted" interview with book publisher Judith Regan, Fox said.

"O.J. Simpson, in his own words, tells for the first time how he would have committed the murders if he were the one responsible for the crimes," the network said in a statement. "In the two-part event, Simpson describes how he would have carried out the murders he has vehemently denied committing for over a decade."


Is this an Onion article?

How far is this going to go? Will there be Nicole Simpson blow-up dolls used as props? Will there be a re-enactment where OJ smears blood on his car? This is completely insane.

When the OJ trial was going on, I was actually working for the NFL. We were under a gag order to put anything about OJ in our shows (at one point we had to cut out a shot of the Ring of Fame in Buffalo because it showed OJ's number), but we all discussed it incessantly. When the verdict was announced they piped a feed into the NFL Films screening room, which was basically a huge movie theater. Watching the not guilty reading on a 30-foot screen in living color was memorable. This story brought it all back.

UPDATE: By the way this is going to be on Fox. Classy as always.

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