OJ to be next reality TV star
OJ Simpson could be the star of television’s newest reality programme if a black TV network goes ahead with its plan for an unscripted series featuring clips of Simpson.
Simpson, whose televised 1995 trial in the slaying of his ex-wife was a sensation long before reality TV became popular, claims to have no knowledge of the plan.
Urban Television Network, which reaches 22 million households in America, says it is has more than 60 hours of footage of the former football star and actor at events around the country and is considering turning it into a weekly series.
Simpson’s lawyer and spokesman Yale Galanter commented: “We’ve never heard of these guys. If they think clips of OJ have commercial value, more power to them. But we haven’t been asked to narrate them or edit them or comment on them. Nor would we.”
Simpson was acquitted of murdering Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman but a jury in a civil trial found him responsible for the deaths and ordered him to pay more than €30m to the victims’ families.
