Originally Posted By gadzuux <a href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/11/14/state/n202734S67.DTL" target="_blank">http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/arti cle.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/11/14/state/n202734S67.DTL</a> (11-14) 21:16 PST Los Angeles (AP) -- 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. ".... 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." The interview will air days before Simpson's new book, "If I Did It," goes on sale Nov. 30. The book, published by Regan, "hypothetically describes how the murders would have been committed." In a video clip on the network's Web site, an off-screen interviewer says to Simpson, "You wrote 'I have never seen so much blood in my life.'" ----------------------------------------- This is just all kinds of wrong - on everybody's part. For those people who may still harbor some doubt as to OJ's culpability in this mess - ask yourself, would a person who was innocent of these vicious murders even think of doing this? "Supposing aloud" on national tv about the hows and means of killing your ex-wife and her friend? And what about fox? How much are they paying? Why would they want to provide this publicity for OJ's nasty little book? Does credibility mean nothing to them? Apparently not - just look at fox news. This just isn't funny. It's grossly irresponsible for fox (or anybody) to give OJ a platform to further publicize himself and his odious little book - especially when the only topic at hand are the grisly details of his heinous crimes. Absolutely appalling.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan It is disgusting. And yet, watch for it to have the biggest ratings since Geraldo went rooting through Al Capone's 'vault'. What companies, I wonder, will want to advertise and be associated with this freak show?
Originally Posted By TomSawyer I just thought for a moment and realized that I don't watch anything at all on Fox right now. That's not going to change. Fox is the lowest of the low, and always has been. As long as Rupert Murdoch owns Fox, I don't think any of his media outlets get to talk about the decline of culture at all.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Every time I think television has sunk as low as it could go...they surprise me once again.
Originally Posted By Fe Maiden I'd say in about 10 more years we'll see him in another Fox special called, "OK, I did it."
Originally Posted By wahooskipper No, you give them too much credit. Actually, by that point the FOX special will be a live reenactment.
Originally Posted By JohnS1 "Who would have figured Fox to do something distasteful?" Really! This is much closer to something we could expect from CNN. Nancy Grace could host it, in fact.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer A friend of mine wanted to make a TV series about a serial killer. It would be one of those road-based series, sort of like The Fugitive, except in this series Kimball would actually be a killer. He'd go from town to town and wind up killing someone and move on. Maybe he could star in something like that.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Can the pilot start in Washington DC? There are aboug 580 folks he could target first.
Originally Posted By jonvn I like that idea. They always try to put some sort of morals into a show. Like where the people who die have done something bad, or the killer is brought to justice or redeemed. But this would be good. A show about how people who do absolutely nothing wrong, going about their business, somehow come into contact with a fellow, either by trying to help out a person they think is in need, or just meeting up with him in a roadside diner or something end up getting brutally killed in the most violent manner possible. Each week you'd see it from the killers viewpoint. You'd see him viewing a happy person, with a loving family and rewarding home life, befriending them or involving themselves in their life somehow, and in the end, murdering them. Often with the victim begging for their life in vain and watching them die. Then the killer looks at his handywork, gets in the victim's car, or in some other way moves on, and you see him go on to the next time, utterly amoral and without the least shred of an afterthought or remorse. The victims and their families are never heard from again. I think that'd be really popular. What I hope, though, is that it'd be really good lesson for people to watch. Sick horrifying violence with no remorse or punishment of the guilty would hopefully shock people in this country out of the sick and depraved interest they have in seeing this sort of thing on TV and in the movies.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder You know, I can't think of a more ill-advised thing than this. Not that we needed any confirmation, but Simpson truly is a moron.
Originally Posted By gadzuux So is fox. It's bad enough that they're producing and airing this, let alone spreading it out over two separate nights during sweeps. They must really think they've got a "winner" with this show.
Originally Posted By gadzuux It kind of reminds me of the 'inside michael jackson' special they had a few years back, with michael snuggling and holding hands with the little boy, and saying that they share a bed. And we know how well that turned out.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I'm sure there is some crazy legal thing here where no matter how much money Simpson earns from this TV show and his book, he won't have to give a nickel to the Goldmans?
Originally Posted By alexbook I read this thread and wrote a note to the buyer at the bookstore I work for to order some copies. Now I feel slimy.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy 2oony, unfortunately I'm sure you're right...and that disgusts me (not that you're right, but what you're right about).
